wield Значение & определение

Примери за wield

• 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.