Make no mistake, drug companies would soon come under the sway of the Health Care Financing Administration that runs Medicare.

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Greenspan's Louis XIV "I am the state" proclivities were intensified when he fell under the sway of a strange theory of Ben Bernanke's.

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The greater threat to Afghan stability comes from a resurgent Taliban, still apparently under the sway of its one-eyed former commander, Mullah Mohammed Omar.

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Moreover, the two other great peoples of the region, the Turks and Persians, are both under the sway of governments with an Islamist label, albeit of wildly different hues.

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Foreign oil companies have gradually returned to Libya since the 2011 revolution that ousted Moammar Gadhafi, but much of Libya remains highly insecure and under the sway of independent militia.

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He falls under the sway of a self-help guru (Terence Stamp), whose exhortations to say yes to everything and everyone launch Carl on a series of frenetic misadventures which, of course, come out right in the end.

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And there was no way that the Pentagon would continue to classify BAE as a privileged supplier of sensitive technology if it felt that the company was somehow under the sway of two foreign governments - even governments, in the form of France and Germany, regarded as allies.

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After ruminating on it for almost 15 years, Mr Fowles turned in a work that was full of Shakespearean and Homeric allusion, the story of an English teacher in Greece who falls under the sway of a fabulously wealthy magician, the Magus of the title, and his parallel fantasy universe.

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And the scrutineers are explicitly exhorted not to form any sort of cabal or make any plans to sway the election, under pain of excommunication.

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By the 1930s, under the chairmanship of Ernest Oppenheimer, De Beers' cartel had near total sway over the trade.

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But as long as voters outnumber doctors and ever larger swaths of our health care system come under government sway, there is an inexorable logic to the process.

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