China s current international influence likely outstrips its desire or capacity.

No part of the world shares more values or has a greater capacity to influence American attitudes and power than does Europe.

Moreover, gender experts within the United Nations often lacked the status, time, resources and capacity to influence decision making and support technical areas.

We also note that threats to health can have a direct influence on the economic welfare of States and on their capacity to function well.

That money for influence governance structure indirectly impairs the Fund s capacity to criticize its most important members economies (let alone police compliance with their obligations).

The capacity of Iraqi Security Forces is increasing, reducing the influence and effectiveness of insurgents, and strengthening Iraqi rule of law capabilities.

The European Union has been a positive force in promoting rights in those countries aspiring to membership, but it has not demonstrated a capacity to exercise influence worldwide.

The West is right to insist on norms of decent government, but it risks losing its capacity to influence events in Africa when it automatically links aid to elections.

UNIFEM links constituencies for women's rights to political processes and builds their capacity to advocate for the institutional changes needed if women leaders are to influence post conflict reconstruction.

Unlike majority influence, minority influence can rarely influence others through normative social influence because the majority is indifferent to the minority's perspective of them.

Recognizing that granting all people formal political equality does not create an equal capacity to participate in political processes, or an equal capacity to influence decision making processes, taking into consideration the existence of threats and obstacles that impede effective popular participation,

China s economic power over the US is now substantial, and will limit not only America s influence in the financial markets, but also its capacity to use military power.

This money for influence model of governance indirectly impairs the IMF s capacity to criticize the economies of its most important members (let alone police compliance with their obligations).

Europe s lack of a collective defense strategy, together with declining investment in military capacity, is also a serious obstacle to its continuing global influence as a security actor.

The fight led by the United States, with the rest of the West providing lower key support has weakened Al Qaeda s influence and capacity.

The analysis should be made public and could influence perceptions of systemic risk and market behavior, thereby increasing self regulatory capacity of the system.

Minority and majority influence combined There is evidence to suggest that it is possible for minority influence and majority influence to work together.

I suspect that this is due to the proliferation of blogs, so inevitably there are those who do not understand or grasp blogging s capacity to influence decision making and to contribute to positive change.

The Fund can help to prevent future crisis of this kind, but only if it first prevents undue influence on its capacity to scrutinize, and if necessary criticize, influential countries policies and regulations.

Five factors will influence knowledge transfer from the view of forest landscape ecology the generation of research capacity, the potential for application, the users of the knowledge, the infrastructure capacity, and the process by which knowledge is transferred (Turner, 2006).

Advocacy strives to influence a program or policy either directly or indirectly therefore, the influence is being evaluated, rather than the results of that influence.

Beyond its final composition, we cannot afford to ignore the fact that the new Security Council will be judged by its results and by its capacity to exert a positive influence on international realities.

The influence continues to this day.

The myth of Israel s military power, resourcefulness in economic and agricultural matters, and an exaggerated perception of its unique capacity to lobby and influence American policy combined to make the Israeli connection especially attractive to these countries.

Unfortunately, there is no country in a position to influence Iran to the extent that China can influence North Korea.

The degeneration of the OHR's influence coincided with the withdrawal of the US military and the hollowing out of Eufor, which now has little in the way of operational capacity.

But it retains the vocation and characteristics of a major power a rich culture and history, vast size, formidable nuclear capabilities, strong influence across Eurasia, and the capacity to be a spoiler in many conflicts.

In his capacity as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, George held influence in parliamentary boroughs on the south coast of England, which he used to support Whig candidates in the general election of 1705.

Arab artistic influence in Sicily mirrors the Lombard influence in the Mezzogiorno.

I want you to give me influence.

We influence our friends who in their turn influence their friends, meaning that our actions can influence people we have never met.

Social influence was present in both groups, but was stronger in the group that was exposed to both the arguments (minority influence) and the knowledge that the jury conformed (majority influence).

To influence the majority, the minority group would take the approach of informational social influence (Wood, 1994), or social proof.

The group's influence on comedy has been compared toThe Beatles' influence on music.

Trading in influence

Of course, Russia is bound to exercise strong influence in the former Soviet territories, but it will have to share that influence with others.

The absence of strong State institutions, corruption, the ominous influence of warlords and local commanders, and the failure to ensure a secure environment for courts, judicial personnel, victims and witnesses also continues to undermine the capacity of the legal system.

(v) Promoting the independence and integrity of the judiciary and, by means of appropriate education, selection, support and allocation of resources, strengthening its capacity to render justice with fairness and efficiency, free from improper or corrupt outside influence

(b) Promoting the independence and integrity of the judiciary and, by means of appropriate education, selection, support and allocation of resources, strengthening its capacity to render justice with fairness and efficiency, free from improper or corrupt outside influence

The United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women is the main entry point for strengthening the capacity and influence of non governmental and governmental organizations to spearhead innovative responses to gender based violence at the country level.

We can influence behavior.

They will lose influence.

If people are to feel committed to the place where they live, they must be allowed to influence decision making, and that influence should not depend on nationality.

Majority influence refers to the majority trying to produce conformity on the minority, while minority influence is converting the majority to adopt the thinking of the minority group.

While this suggests that inbred characteristics influence the extent to which people play particular roles, it leaves a lot of room for learned behavior to influence outcomes.