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1. to control Each group that held sway over a particular strip of the Mississippi River controlled who used it. 2. to have great influence Ten years after she correctly predicted the crash, she still holds sway among stock brokers. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The next, he's faced with a rather less favourable situation: Mercedes suddenly hold sway at Brawn and German driver Nico Rosberg is signed up with the obvious inference that the engine manufacturers will throw their backing behind him. If Liverpool as a city is to progress from 2008 onwards we need to concentrate more on design and good architecture, using the best of those buildings that survived wartime bombings and subsequent bad planning decisions as a spring board to the future of our infra structure - rather than once again allowing such horrors as Concourse House and St John's car park and precinct to hold sway Paul Saeed, full address supplied If Liverpool as a city is to progress from 2008 onwards, we need to concentrate more on design and good architecture, using the best of those buildings that survived wartime bombings and subsequent bad planning decisions as a spring board to the future of our infrastructure, rather than once again allowing such horrors as Concourse house and St John's car park and precinct to hold sway. |
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