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How to use the word swayed in a Sentence?

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We’ve seen a rotating group, many of whom are not born-Chinese nationals, and that has not swayed the pressure around TikTok from a regulatory, national security perspective over the course of the last 18 months or so.

Matthew Quint

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The committee overall is swayed more on the liberal side than the conservative side and it's not something that interests me, with inflation, gas, the border and everything else, I choose to take it easy.

George Nozick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The kidnappers have been warned about harming the hostages and what may be the consequences for them [ if that were to happen ]. But they are not swayed by those warnings.

Haitian Justice Minister Liszt Quitel

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The gang has locations where they usually keep their hostages so that they can feel the hostages are safe. They feel comfortable keeping them there, the kidnappers have been warned about harming the hostages and what may be the consequences for them [ if that were to happen ]. But they are not swayed by those warnings.

Haitian Justice Minister Liszt Quitel

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The building swayed like a sheet of paper. ... I ran to the balcony. I (opened) the doors and a wall of dust hit me.

Raysa Rodriguez

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I went along with a plan to give my daughters an unfair advantage in the college admissions process, in doing so I ignored my intuition and allowed Actress Lori Loughlin to be swayed from my moral compass. I thought I was acting out of love for my children. But in reality, it only undermined and diminished my daughters' abilities and accomplishments.

Lori Loughlin

Found on CNN
3 years ago

President Putin, George W. Bush and Barack Obama all thought that they could make friends with Vladimir Putin that could somehow reestablish the relationship, all of them came away believing that personalizing dealings with the United States and Russia was a mistake and that Vladimir Putin was absolutely unsentimental, cold-hearted and not somebody who could be swayed by the great charisma and magnetism of the American presidency.

Susan Glasser

Found on CNN
5 years ago

All of them came away believing that personalizing dealings with the United States and Russia was a mistake and that Vladimir Putin was absolutely unsentimental, cold-hearted and not somebody who could be swayed by the great charisma and magnetism of the American presidency.

Susan Glasser

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It's swayed by the party, and it's going to be somebody who's affiliated with him.

Ronny Jacksons

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We have a difficult time seeing how OPEC would in any way be swayed here in terms of changing course, in terms of policy.

Michael Tran

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Without being swayed by smile diplomacy, Japan will firmly coordinate with [ the United States and South Korea ] toward the ultimate goal of denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula.

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The market is easily swayed by conflicting headlines on tax hike and fiscal measures.

Hikaru Sato

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The most uncertain market now is the foreign exchange market, and Japanese stocks will likely be swayed by it for a while.

Takuya Takahashi

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Even though I don't agree with every one of his policies, he has his convictions, and I admire that, I respect that, and I think that's what swayed it for me is he has principle.

Clayton Smith

Found on CNN
8 years ago

What ninth grader knows what they want and what ninth grader, never mind an adult, isn't easily swayed, thinking somebody wants me. It's very intoxicating for any age but for a child especially, so my counsel was to keep all your options open.

Christine Carugati

Found on CNN
8 years ago

U.S. data related to housing and private consumption, which are swayed by winter conditions, bear watching.

Shinichiro Kadota

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I'm sure the doctors are swayed by their prestigious patient, but I think the public knows that, too, we take the results with a grain of salt, but it's better than nothing.

Boston University Annas

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I would caution you not to be overly swayed by any one or a handful of companies and whether they are making money or not.

Andy Slavitt

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We won't be swayed by short term economic fluctuations in our big picture direction.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Rather than being swayed just by superficial market moves, I believe it's important to ascertain China's structural issues behind them, i think it's beneficial to hold a frank debate at G20 on what is happening in Chinese economy.

Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He is a very independent individual who's never been swayed by public opinion or what the party establishment tells him to do.

Jake Weigler

Found on CNN
9 years ago

If your kid is a strong, independent older teen who does not get swayed by peers, chances are they are going to respect the family home, and it won't get destroyed in a house party, if your teenager has friends who are a bit on the cheeky side, and your child seems to be a bit of a follower, I would be reluctant to leave them alone.

Julie Cole

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It has always been my ambition since childhood to live such a life that one day my fellow citizens would call me to membership in this popular branch of the greatest lawmaking body in the world. Out of their confidence and partiality they have done this. It is now my sole purpose here to help enact such wise and just laws that our common country will by virtue of these laws be a happier and a more prosperous country. I have always dreamed of a country which I believe this should be and will be, and that is one in which the citizenship is an educated and patriotic people, not swayed by passion and prejudice, and a country that shall know no East, no West, no North, no South, but inhabited by a people liberty loving, patriotic, happy, and prosperous, with its lawmakers having no other purpose than to write such just laws as shall in the years to come be of service to human kind yet unborn. [Applause]

Sam Rayburn

added by anonymous
9 years ago

I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destiny of man.

Steven Runciman

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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