8 sentences with 'wielded'
Example sentences and phrases with the word wielded and other words derived from it.
• « Surprisingly, Hellenistic women wielded considerable economic power and enjoyed far greater legal recognition than women had in earlier periods of Greek history. »
• « Within families, women's voices carried considerable weight, and in politics, while men held all official positions, women wielded considerable influence behind the scenes. »
• « All three had so many clients and wielded so much political power that they could ratify Pompey's every demand, and both Caesar and Crassus received the military commissions they expected. »
• « In the 16th century, Henry's line, the Tudors, established an increasingly powerful English state, based largely on a pragmatic alliance between the royal government and the nobility, the landed class that wielded most of the political power at the local level. »
• « The nobility also wielded considerable power over the (mostly rural) common people: peasants in the west and serfs in the east. »
• « Although it still wielded considerable power, the German-born Hanoverian royal line deferred to parliament in matters of legislation and taxation after the Glorious Revolution of 1688. »
• « The pomp around the person of the king and queen first established by Louis XIV continued at the palace of Versailles, but nothing changed the fact that noble wealth remained largely off-limits to the state and the nobles wielded great real political power. »
• « While the United States was not a major imperial power per se (although it wrested control of the Philippines from Spain in 1898 and wielded considerable power in Central America), it nevertheless played an important role in imperialism. »