0 present participle of wield --
1 to hold a weapon or tool and look as if you are going to use it: --
She was confronted by a man wielding a knife.
The fact that those wielding power are men conditions the way in which decisions are made that affect all our lives.
The military cliques which have perpetrated the coup and are wielding power arbitrarily must be stopped.
The net result is that the animal panics and begins to struggle and so the stick wielding becomes more vigorous.
Hence, in switching between the languages, par ticipants allegedly exploit these relations for purposes of wielding power.
Wielding a mixture of filth and germ theory, and assorted forms of contagionism, sanitary engineers implored local authorities to abandon tipping and adopt burning before the visitation of an epidemic.
Women (some of them very obscure figures) and minorities are everywhere to be seen, and not just wielding stethoscopes or chain saws.
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.
Fidel has no more use for those wielding carrots than for those wielding sticks.
