First, local governments influence a large proportion of investment decisions.

Small shareholders cannot easily influence banks decisions, especially on complex risk related issues.

The regime has multiple coexisting power centers, which influence and limit each other s decisions.

China has more influence over Burma s ruling generals than any other country.

Over time, enhanced influence will enable him to get more things done.

young women have less control over decisions to use condoms.

A country with such influence over a military superpower cannot be considered weak.

Over the past year, treaty bodies have also adopted well over 100 decisions and views on individual cases.

But it is unclear how much influence China s government holds over Kim Jong un s regime.

This indicates that they have major influence over Internet policy in these countries as well.

But now Japan s political and economic influence in South East Asia is gradually declining, owing in part to its failure to exert influence over security and defense matters.

This combined with the intervention in Vietnam set the stage for further French influence in China leading up to a sphere of influence over parts of Southern China.

And so it's quite surprising that many of us let our unconscious influence those decisions in ways that we are not quite aware of.

But the election results will not matter parliament, too, has little influence over Iran s foreign policy.

As costs surge, Chinese producers are seeking higher value, new niches, and more influence over policymaking.

Both India and China are each seeking greater influence over the strategically important country of Myanmar.

The pace of the decline of Western influence seems to have accelerated over the past decade.

Lincoln also presided over the expansion of the federal government's economic influence in several other areas.

He used it in the context of political influence exerted by a patron over a client.

Over the last four years, Ahmadinejad has repeatedly tried to undermine the ruling clerics control over political and policy decisions.

After provision of targeted technical advice to financial institutions to influence investment decisions favouring energy efficiency and renewable energy , add and advanced fossil fuel technology .

This belief could not be construed to have any influence on my decisions, unless I also said and believed that homosexuality is also a crime.

As distinct peoples, they have special rights that include, among others, the right to be different and to influence decisions affecting their livelihoods and future.

There is no doubt about the importance of the Court's decisions and its influence on the development and implementation of the norms of international law.

Lawmakers also should consider providing public investors with a say over political spending decisions.

China s vast influence over a few fellow dictatorships still holds out the best hope of softening their misrule.

To Italian lawmakers, mired in stalemate and indecision, the French executive s considerable influence over the parliament is appealing.

Early medieval records indicate that over 60 of personal names in Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire showed Scandinavian influence.

Moreover, men, owing to their dominant situation, often influence women by making them sign over their proxy votes.

(a) To advocate at all levels to enable women to influence political, economic and social decisions, processes and systems, including by building and strengthening networks among women

New digital technologies are also being used to give citizens easier access to information and the more opportunity to try to influence decisions that affect their lives.

This way, the logic went, Pakistan could retain enough influence with the Taliban to secure leverage over Afghanistan s government.

But these groups have limited influence over the local opposition groups inside Syria, which are equally diverse and divided.

PARIS A series of decisions taken over the last few years in Europe have alarmed me.

Meanwhile, given that many emerging economies have incomplete or immature PRIs, their influence over market price discovery is relatively weak.

Following the defeat in World War I, influence of German speaking elites over Central and Eastern Europe was greatly limited.

The Chairman noted that although commentaries were not legal documents, they were highly regarded and would influence the decisions of judges who were required to interpret the draft convention.

Regional roundtables have regularly made proposals to regional local government unions, county governments, the Government and the Parliament in order to influence decisions and legislation in many different fields.

Mr. Kasanda discussed the meaning which could be attached to the term empowerment as related to that of control . He said that the ability of women of African descent to make their own decisions led to choices and the ability to influence public decisions.

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.

These positions imply a desire to exercise sovereign power over the Economic and Monetary Union s rules and decisions.

Men do not only have priority in treatment, but also have power over decisions regarding their wives' treatment.

(b) Ensuring the enhanced and systematic involvement of UNICEF in both PRSs and SWAps, in conjunction with national counterparts, the World Bank and United Nations partners, to influence strategic investment decisions

Over 74 said that people with schizophrenia were either not very able or not able at all to make decisions concerning their treatment, and 70.2 said the same of money management decisions.

Additionally it was necessary to carry over design decisions from earlier versions of Windows for reasons of backwards compatibility, even if these design decisions no longer matched a more modern computing environment.