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How to use the word wielding in a Sentence?

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There are so many people in our community … who were there on August 11 who were terrorized by torch-wielding terrorists, there’s a law, a burning objects law, that says they can be prosecuted but our prosecutor’s not doing that.

James Hingeley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Disney has alienated a lot of people now, and so the political influence they're used to wielding, I think has dissipated. And so the question is, why would you want to have special privileges in the law at all ? And I don't think that that we should.

Ron DeSantis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

While the U.N. Security Council can reach majority opinion and sometimes consensus on pressing international issues, there are glaring times when it is a complete failure. This is one such case, with Russia, a veto-wielding permanent member of the council, there is no way to avoid Moscow blocking a resolution that would condemn Russian aggression and support a ceasefire that would end to this horrific war.

Kelly Craft

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Over the course of my time, but especially in the later years, politics in Powerful Senate became much more of a top-down-driven process... where leadership wielding a few chits -- including the ability to raise money -- became more powerful than even the most powerful chairmen of the most significant committees.

Jim Manley

Found on CNN
4 years ago

To eliminate the parent tumor in Iraq and Syria, we are enabling local, motivated forces with critical support from a global coalition wielding a suite of capabilities — ranging from airstrikes, special forces, cyber tools, intelligence, equipment, mobility and logistics, training, advice and assistance, it must be local forces who deliver( ISIS) a lasting defeat, because only they can secure and govern the territory by building long-term trust within the populations they liberate.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We have to do something about the easy accessibility of weapons of war on our streets to people who have no business wielding them. Period, enough is enough.

President Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Keith, as a police officer, had not only the right, but the duty to defend a fellow officer from a mentally unstable, violent man wielding two knives.

Sam Bregman

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

For both companies, this is about wielding the greatest influence possible over the global marketplace, having said that, unlike in the highly concentrated iron ore space where the focus is squarely on one market owned in large part by Rio and BHP - China, copper is sold much more widely, leaving room for smaller producers to stay in the game.

Gavin Wendt

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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