If Pennsylvania's 6th Congressional District is typical, though, economic issues still hold sway with voters.
Fast-growing emerging economies feel under-represented in an institution where Europe and America still hold sway.
He may try to hold local elections to install governments in towns where gangs hold sway.
Some faculty members objected to an outside political organization trying to hold sway over which courses survived.
The White House is now seeking to ensure that the exiles do not, in fact, hold sway.
Thank goodness not all securities analysts work for banks where banking, not research and analysis, hold sway.
Can regimes that are failing their people so clearly really hold sway over some 350m people indefinitely?
Just because I'm no longer living with them doesn't mean "Daddy Uncle Ro Ro" doesn't still hold sway.
Street gangs hold sway in many of the poorest, most densely populated parts of the capital city, Port-au-Prince.
But a majority of Thais still live in rural areas, where old political party machines continue to hold sway.
Although tariffs are notionally set by regulators, local politicians often hold sway and keep them low to win votes.
Between the two of them, Rwanda and Uganda now hold sway over more than half of the entire country.
He will hold sway over American military operations from Kenya to Kazakhstan.
Local officials and party bosses hold sway not only in individual provinces and cities but even in the smallest villages.
There are, of course, big differences between the despots who hold sway in these places, Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Milosevic.
Distributors still hold sway in the U.S., thanks to strict state laws governing how liquor can make it into retail stores.
Investment bankers and lawyers still hold sway, and the regulators still must approve the merger of American Airlines and US Airways.
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And where they have given way to republicans, new dynasties, such as Syria's today and Libya's probably tomorrow, still hold sway.
Swiss, Dutch or German companies hold sway when it comes to large and expensive roller coasters, but Italians dominate other rides.
North of the Ibar, between Mitrovica and Serbia proper, they hold sway.
Even if that is wrong, catch-all parties of some sort will continue to hold sway in Germany, believes Wolfgang Schroeder of Kassel University.
But it looks like El Nino is about to pick up and will hold sway in the next couple of months at least.
Away from the opera bouffe of Manila, Philippine politics looks less like liberal democracy than elective feudalism, where dominant local clans hold sway.
The darker version of this theme is that the four will use their power to hold sway with litigators, regulators and standards setters.
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Rebels of the Houthi clan hold sway in much of the north, around Saada, while a secessionist movement has gained momentum in the south.
There, religious groups, which view gambling as a sin, and Indian tribes, which get rich from largely un-taxed casinos on reservation lands, hold sway.
Business wants to imitate the US only because it wants self-regulation and market forces to hold sway rather than suffer any excessive intervention by government.
Lady Thatcher was in this part of the country, where the Liberal Democrats now hold sway, in an attempt to bolster William Hague's apparently beached election campaign.
Not without reason: although some Shia dynasties, such as the Fatimids in Egypt, did hold sway for long periods, Islam's early caliphs often oppressed their Shia subjects.
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