Former leaders of Ituri armed groups continue to wield influence

Confused and self absorbed, Europe is not in the best position to wield influence.

Of course, the Central American nations do not wield huge influence in Mexico if anything, it is the other way around.

But can China be persuaded to wield its influence constructively, rather than maintaining its pretense of neutrality when its assistance is badly needed?

Though some of Iraq s conservative local clerics wield considerable influence, its current leaders will resist any drive to transform the country into a socially repressive and isolated state.

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.

Mexico City s middle class residents who wield disproportionate influence countrywide are also incensed, both at the teachers for disrupting their lives and at the federal and local authorities for failing to restore order.

This perception is shaped by recollections of past abuses carried out by local strongmen who continue to wield influence and the existence of candidates accused of having committed human rights violations and criminal acts.

They will wield decisive importance in swing states like Colorado, New Mexico, Florida, and Nevada.

Gilens and Page report similar results for organized interest groups, which wield a powerful influence on policy formation. As they point out, it makes very little difference what the general public thinks once interest group alignments and the preferences of affluent Americans are taken into account.

The identity of the new king is clear, but who will really wield power is not.

Saakashvili must be pressured to abandon his effort to wield full control over Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Greenpeace and many others claim that GM foods merely enable big companies like Monsanto to wield near monopoly power.

And like any new technology, it's really in humanity's hands to wield it for the betterment of mankind, or not.

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.

Under Khamenei s leadership, an unholy trinity of nouveau riche Revolutionary Guardsmen, hard line clergymen, and indoctrinated Basij militiamen increasingly wield power.

According to one estimate, middle class consumers in a dozen emerging economies today wield annual purchasing power totaling approximately 6.9 trillion.

Behind closed doors, governments wield financial incentives and regulatory powers to mute media criticism and twist editorial content in their favor.

What will it mean to wield power in the global information age of the twenty first century? Which resources will produce power?

With the government still having room to wield expansionary monetary and or fiscal policy, the economic revival was only a matter of time.

And banks boards of directors, which wield ultimate control, are not legally required to consider the broader impact of their actions on others.

Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it, and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

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.

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

Sometimes likened to a secular Pope, the UN Secretary General can wield the soft power of persuasion but little hard economic or military power.

The upper class in modern societies is the social class composed of the wealthiest members of society, who also wield the greatest political power.

May it not be that if you were to wield authority you would cause corruption in the land and ill treat your blood relations ?

May it not be that if you were to wield authority you would cause corruption in the land and ill treat your blood relations ?

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

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.

With influence must come accountability.

Factors that influence health conditions

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).

If he were to wield authority , he would try to cause corruption in the land and to ruin the crop and the stock , and Allah does not like corruption .

If he were to wield authority , he would try to cause corruption in the land and to ruin the crop and the stock , and Allah does not like corruption .

Finance shapes power, ideas, and influence.

He possesses more influence than power.

Several environmental factors influence blood pressure.

The influence continues to this day.

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.