Therefore, the minority homosexual group had less of an influence.

They have lost faith that they can really influence political developments, much less influence the direction in which our civilization is evolving.

Russia s economic influence in Afghanistan is far less robust, but it is growing.

Indeed, while less ominous and dramatic than financial contagion, trade spillovers profoundly influence global growth prospects.

On the contrary, their influence will make life not only less civilized, but a great deal more dangerous.

They are less likely than members of the professional political class to allow political calculations to influence their views.

Second, because IMF intervention would reduce the influence of powerful domestic insiders, early intervention would be less attractive to them.

Indian influence will no doubt exploit assets less available to others, particularly the Indian diaspora in countries like South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, and Nigeria.

Business elites were not any less politically powerful back then. But they used their influence to advance an agenda that was broadly in the national interest.

The two main criticisms lack of strategic clarity and less emphasis on the classical concepts of power point to America s loss of influence, power, and leadership.

Thus, in less than twenty years, Rome had destroyed the power of one of the successor states, crippled another, and firmly entrenched its influence over Greece.

the term controls' refers to cases of domination over the commission of wrongful conduct and not simply the exercise of oversight, still less mere influence or concern.

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.

While packaged in smooth diplo speak, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev s new proposal for European security has the less than hidden goal of stopping and rolling back Western influence.

But it also faced opposition from a variety of other, far less democratically minded, forces, including holdovers from Hosni Mubarak s regime, who continue to wield influence in official institutions.

Less than 20 years ago, the Czech Republic and Poland were part of their sphere of influence, so Russians understandably cannot accept the US unilaterally implanting its security system there.

Active party members hold more ideologically consistent views and hold them more strongly than most of those who are politically less engaged, giving activists disproportionate influence in the political process.

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

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

But, with little influence, much less control, over what comes next, emerging economies are still struggling to figure out how to protect themselves from the impact of a Fed policy reversal.

But opinion leaders, and friends and relatives of the least informed in each country, were following it, and their influence can create an atmosphere that makes everyone less willing to spend.

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

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

Situations of the latter kind may invite management to exercise great latitude and influence the direction of earnings in its favour by resorting to less objective estimates based on modelling hypothetical markets.

Trading in influence

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.

We can influence behavior.

They will lose influence.

But another finding has also started to influence the current debate on growth poor people within a country are less happy than rich people. In other words, above a low level of sufficiency, peoples happiness levels are determined much less by their absolute income than by their income relative to some reference group.

With influence must come accountability.

Factors that influence health conditions

They are less likely than members of the professional political class to allow political calculations to influence their views. And, sometimes, they actually say things that are uncomfortable but true, and that need to be said.

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).

Finance shapes power, ideas, and influence.

He possesses more influence than power.

Several environmental factors influence blood pressure.

The influence continues to this day.

Its direct influence on trade may be less immediately obvious, since its share of world exports has never exceeded 4 per cent and its share of world imports reached its highest point in 2003 at 15.5 per cent.

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

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

Less investment will mean less capital deepening.

Two other research teams have pointed out that the ecological footprint itself is nothing more than an important attention grabbing device, and that it is less a scientific measure than one designed to raise public awareness and influence politics.

There would be more democracy, less oppression more freedom, less terrorism more growth, less poverty.

I want you to give me influence.

And that gives with you enormous influence.