Nancy Pearcey

America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.

American Author

Yehuda Berg

If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.

American Clergyman

Howard Rheingold

Journalists don't have audiences - they have publics who can respond instantly and globally, positively or negatively, with a great deal more power than the traditional letters to the editor could wield.

American Critic

Bat for Lashes

The way you wield your power is about using it to afford you opportunities that you wouldn't otherwise have. So I'm very creatively ambitious, and I just hope people notice it; that's all I want.

English Musician

Ratan Tata

People of great power wield great power, but people of lesser power or people who have fallen out of power go to jail without adequate evidence, or their bodies are found in the trunks of cars.

Indian Businessman

Daniel Humm

History has long had a wall up between the kitchen and the dining room. Front of house, back of house - one group always wielded more power and influence.

Swiss Chef

Tessa Thompson

I like to think I'm one of the least athletic people in real life. I don't do a whole lot when I'm left to my own devices except wield forks and knives.

American Actress

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.

American Leader

Pat Boone

In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.

American Musician

John Boehner

The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.

American Politician

Used to describe someone with influential control over others, not always with literal power.

Metaphorical Use

Can apply to intangible things like policies, ideas, or rights that someone can exert control over.

Abstract Concepts

Wielding power can be subtle and may not be openly displayed in a person's actions.

Not Always Visible

Involves physical manipulation or control of an object, typically one that is held.

Physical Action

Suggests the person has a level of skill or expertise with the object they are using.

Skill Implication

Can refer to items other than weapons, like tools or musical instruments.

Not Always Weapons

 beating of that black motorist one of the two officers who wielded batons that evening relate a message after the arrest to another car saying quote sounds almost as exciting as our last call it was right out of gorillas in the mist one policeman involved in the beating said quote I haven't beaten anyone this

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 then the troll has to release your brother. And by its own rules, the troll has to free the creatures as well, since you said a true statement. By wielding just 5 words like a logical scalpel, you’ve forced the troll to free all its prisoners. As the troll stomps off in anger,

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 have grown in population, technology and intelligence to a position of terrible power. We now wield the paintbrush." We heard about the atmosphere as a thin layer of varnish. Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on this planet. And we're the ones that hold the paintbrush.

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 helping a friend and it ended up it was Samantha as a party and so when you see stories like that you realize it really the pen is mightier than the sword and it is a double-edged sword so it's something that has to be wielded with a lot of care you know when when I first

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 they may miss out on drugs or therapies that are proven to work. Plus, the positive effects may fade over time, and often do. Placebos also cloud clinical results, making scientists even more motivated to discover how they wield such power over us.

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 mostly monitor and investigate violations, but they cannot force states to, say, change a policy or compensate a victim. That's why some critics say it's naive to consider human rights a given in a world where state interests wield so much power.

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 the most important of which is that when you say, "somebody who is doing bad things," you probably mean things like plotting a terrorist attack or engaging in violent criminality, a much narrower conception of what people who wield power mean

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 Luckily, there are medical treatments that can help trigger the thyroid's activities again, and bring the body back to a steady metabolic rate. For such a little organ, the thyroid wields an awful lot of power.

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 intellectual, and sexual rules, that drives the plot of the Handmaid's Tale. Ultimately, the novel's exploration of the consequences of complacency, and how power can be wielded unfairly,

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 he clears space for itself by wielding one of its buds like a club