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On his left, he wields the compass and square of architecture and the tools of sculpting and painting - hammer, inkpot and quill - and a painting.
The author wields the blunt instruments of ' ' political transaction costs ' ' and ' ' induced ideological change ' ' at frequent intervals, inflicting substantial transaction costs on the reader.
The impression was that the texts ' ' protested too much ' ' and were produced with a view to disproving the popular prejudices wielded against them.
The modernization of state institutions afforded rulers greater power than ever before, which they wielded to silence and co-opt the ulema.
There have been comparatively few attempts to explore ageism and the forms it takes or how it is wielded to uphold inequalities based upon age.
In this they merely supplemented the already considerable physical force wielded by the official border security force.
Thus, for a court to have the potential of wielding real power, its jurisdiction must envelop salient political, social, and economic questions.
Language has long been used as a tool by which hegemonic power can be wielded over those with alternative world visions.
Our highpowered theoretical tools must not be wielded ignorantly or unfeelingly.
In response, nineteenth-century women of all classes wielded needles, hooks, and bobbins to an extent previously unknown.
No government could afford to ignore the influence democratic politicians and the party press wielded in the public sphere.
Rather, the 1920s 'was a time when women were engaged in the transformative stage from wielding in-uence to exercising power' (p. 9).
In the absence of such criteria, arguments from 'description versus explanation' can be wielded more or less arbitrarily and as such carry no real force.
Power most often is wielded in these accounts by male representatives of the state, of employers, or of the judicial system.
Unlike party support, environmental interest-group pressure can be wielded more broadly on legislators and officials during and between elections.
Juries wielded considerable power in their localities, and sought to extend their influence beyond them.
In practice, authority was wielded by the monarch, and an adroit manipulation of political culture tended to delay the emergence of a mature civil society.
Partnerships and networks are recommended as alternatives to hierarchical power wielded through command and the use of authority.
His theory helps to reconcile the apparent contradiction between the power wielded by dominant groups and the relative cultural autonomy of subordinate groups.
Now, and again at liberation, violence was omnipresent and, in contrast to the man-to-man combat of the front, was often wielded by men against women.
The abbey was thus distinctive, not only in its elaborate ceremonial, but also in the secular powers still wielded by the dean and chapter.
The common civic virtues of the post-war society were seen as flawed in the lives of those who wielded power.
Around the region, the police have wielded veto power as a corporation, and have frequently helped to scupper reform.
In addition, the party leadership wields enormous patronage through, for example, appointments in the public, parastatal and even (indirectly) the private sectors.
Before the mid-seventeenth century the traditional form of natural theology was wielded primarily as a shield to defend practitioners and their activities.
Significantly, after the conclusion of the expedition, they were rewarded by being allowed to go on wielding a great deal of power and a conspicuous share of wealth.
Their success stemmed from their adoption of a grand strategy designed to serve their needs in an urban environment in which the whiteruled state wielded ultimate power.
Their skeletal forms and the bones they used to per form their prodigious feats refer to this formative period and the creative powers they wielded at that time.
If wielding a more widely validated language gives women a major avenue of social advancement, it makes sense that women would be more critical of the local language around them.
They were also an important group who wielded considerable local influence, both in representing or returning sympathetic members to parliament and in dominating the commission of the peace.
How far did those who wielded political power or other for ms of author ity deter mine the agenda, recruit and pay those who implemented it, and assess their results?
Thus, had either set of interests wielded centralized authority, the outcome would most likely have redistributed long-run burdens in favour of those governing interests, without significant investment.
The net result is that the animal panics and begins to struggle and so the stick wielding becomes more vigorous.
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The military cliques which have perpetrated the coup and are wielding power arbitrarily must be stopped.
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If you wanted to get them to sit down, you ought to have wielded the gavel.
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The electorate ought to know that because that is the sort of sum which wields power.
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The fact that those wielding power are men conditions the way in which decisions are made that affect all our lives.
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One can win the economic and political struggle without ever wielding the military instrument, provided that that instrument is strong enough to deter an aggressor.
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At the same time they are wielding a tremendous battle against poverty.
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The instrument they use is collective bargaining and the body which wields that instrument is the trade union movement and the relevant trade unions.
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He was wielding a dead bat extremely well.
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The argument was about the wielding of influence.
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I do not think that the fact that it is very big will mean necessarily that it is going to be wielded by everybody.
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We are therefore making considerable strides without having to resort to wielding the big stick and taking legislative action with regard to advertising.
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Today, quangos are powerful vehicles of patronage, wielding far greater powers and spending far more public money than ever before.
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Had the big stick been wielded, members might well have dug their toes in against change, human nature being what it is.
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A great deal of power is wielded by purchasers, and the large ones especially have a responsibility to use that power effectively.
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The power wielded through its institutions must be made more accountable through greater transparency and greater responsiveness to people's wishes.
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He has wielded the sceptre—which is just the sort of thing that heirs do when there are weak monarchs.
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I have tried to treat it as a revising chamber whose exact composition prevents it from wielding a very high degree of authority.
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He wields the rackets in the same place, and he is in the same clubs.
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The hand that wields the can-opener receives many congratulations from untutored man for the high quality of meals prepared with obvious ease and speed.
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I believe that the influence wielded by political institutions is not just a matter of legal clauses and treaty articles.
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The governments, of course, have given us a lesson in who really wields the power.
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He refers to the then pension trustees as being "threatened"and of"big sticks" being wielded.
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I have looked over some figures from before 1832 to judge how much power individuals wielded.
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Do these powers not exceed those wielded by the criminal law under the long built up principles of social life in this country?
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If he can keep a majority—whether composite or compact does not matter—at his back there is scarcely any limit to the power which he wields.
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I can only think that, once again, the unions are wielding the big stick.
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They wielded a tremendous influence in the industry at the time.
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They should stop pretending that they have enormous influence, when to date they have not wielded their influence at all to get what we need.
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Responsibility for wielding such powers would be in the hands of one man and not a commission.
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Increasingly, those who are wielding power are not accountable and not scrutinised.
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We act as a check on government, not by exercising naked power but by wielding influence which is beyond the grip of party managers.
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Because of that, he wields great power and influence in this industry.
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The chief constable has all the powers that are wielded by the constabulary in a county, and the magistrates have the power of issuing warrants.
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I am quite sure that when he is wielding his probe he will be grateful for the views expressed during this debate today.
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Many people regard the industry as a private army that wields power that is both unwanted and unchecked.
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They do not want to face the fact that he who wields the power must take the ultimate decisions.
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We know the sort of power that the union wields over such matters.
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I sometimes think that we are trying to ask for secure, stable supplies of vitally important raw materials while wielding a cudgel.
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Why are women not encouraged to participate in the wielding of power to a greater extent?
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In a democracy, the press has an important role in putting checks on those wielding power.
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We must not create the impression that we only take action if the big stick is wielded.
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He also said that power is a challenge to freedom, and that it can only be wielded by serving others.
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They are now inside the establishment, and they will be wielding great powers.
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They can, in a sense, be wielded only by dictatorial action.
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Television to-day is a major means of communication and wields a greater influence than all the newspapers put together.
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An air striking force is the means by which a nation wields its air power.
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There is a risk that new towns could become private company towns, with one or two private landlords only wielding monopolistic powers.
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She is wielding the big stick on this occasion.
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Blue-uniformed warders wielding huge clubs guard the area.
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They affect individual citizens and are of course wielded in secrecy.
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The stick has not been wielded over many of the past years.
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The power of the purchaser surely wields the quality stick; he is purchasing in order to obtain an effective outcome.
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The enormous powers wielded by a housing action trust can be used as patronage.
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The distinction between essence and accident allows for the self-identity of the tradition which wields it as axiomatic.
His account of the content of morality is unconvincing even if his account of how we come to know moral rules still wields power.
Finally, the addressee is a person who wields greater power in the community than does the speaker.
They were often attacked for wielding too much economic power.
Besides the economic power of the capitalists, it can bring to bear upon the exploited classes the political power which it already wields.
From at least the late nineteenth century, it is possible to detect an unease among the millowners about the apparent influence that the jobber wielded.
To a large extent, it was determined by the power and influence that he wielded in the neighbourhood.
Daughters and their spouses also inherited even when sons were available and women appear to have wielded some power in the succession process.
They were patrons of academic colleges, hospitals, chantries, wielding large sums of money and the ability to mould institutions in to the future.
Unfortunately, this only emphasizes the perception that power is being wielded according to personal bias/desire.
When he had a point to make, he wielded a literary sledge-hammer.
He wielded full sacerdotal powers, and he alone could consecrate other bishops, ordain priests or other clerics.
In the hands of urban spokesmen the past became a political argument to be wielded against the seigneur, the church and the monarchy.
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