hold sway

He is beyond the point where reason will hold sway.

This was the traditional view which held sway for many years.

In the center, the real world of today holds sway.

Those days are gone now, and a new age holds sway.

Twenty years was a very long time to have held sway.

She saw reality, in which love did not hold sway, but only cold, hard reason.

There are two problems with this system, which still holds sway today.

That view, however, is unlikely to hold sway with Congress.

Things actually looked quite different 150 million years ago, when the dinosaurs held sway.

Shades were beyond the living and yet still held sway over them because of what they knew.

There is even something to be said for the system in which the big party bosses of old held sway.

And it appears as if their views could hold sway.

The review group, which holds sway, has not done so.

These days a new ecology held sway in the Garden.

For years, political machines held sway in many large cities.

They say his powers hold sway over the mountains tonight.

"But we will not enter any place where these Masters hold sway."

They also carry over into the next part of the museum, where history holds sway.

At the finish of her long life, she held sway over an empire.

The degree to which any one of these forces held sway over others is unclear.

Others looked to the far south where Beryl held sway.

For many months has the winter held sway over these lands, but now it is your turn.

"The common thread has been that special interests have held sway over the public interest."

It's not the class system that holds sway in Britain any more.

That view now holds sway throughout much of the profession.