The ability of grassroots movements to influence policy is set to increase.

But power, defined as the ability to influence others, comes in many guises, and soft power is not weakness.

Turkey s ability to make headway in the Middle East reflects the erosion of US legitimacy and lack of EU influence.

Quotas and influence in the international financial institutions should be based on countries economic weight and the ability to contribute financially.

With no salaries to pay teachers (or even the security services), his ability to influence even his own presidential guard was severely limited.

But the ability of some CEOs to capture an especially high slice might reflect undue power and influence over the company s decision making.

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.

Europe s global influence is feeble because of its internal quarrels and lack of unity, which render the European Union weak and limit its ability to act.

As exchange markets became ever bigger during the past 20 years, most commentators assumed that central banks ability to influence exchange rates through intervention had shrunk radically.

Unfortunately, the two policies have often worked at cross purposes, diminishing America s long term influence in the region and at times hurting its ability to conduct the war.

As the Georgian crisis has underscored, there are limits to the ability to influence developments in a region where Russia has strong strategic interests and a preponderance of military power.

Unlike in the bygone era of superpowers and captive nations, American influence can no longer be defined by the ability to install and depose leaders from the US embassy.

While it is true that American Jews are sometimes represented by lobbyists, such direct efforts to influence policy makers are but a small part of the lobby s ability to shape policy.

Thus, in the US, corporate influence makes it difficult to obtain long needed reforms that would eliminate barriers to takeovers and remove legal impediments to the ability of shareholders to replace company directors.

As a result of his ground breaking work on temperament, we know that these characteristics have the ability to influence later behavior depending on how they interact with the environment.

Although Israel was initially apprehensive about an Islamist government across its Sinai border, the Muslim Brotherhood s value its ability to influence Hamas, the dominant political force in Gaza quickly became apparent.

Today, given China s decisive influence on the global economy, and its increasing ability to project military power, understanding the sources of Chinese conduct has become a central issue in international relations.

Obviously, a country whose currency represents a significant proportion of world reserves can gain international power from that position, thanks to easier terms for economic adjustment and the ability to influence other countries.

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.

That's where the ability to engineer microbes, the ability to engineer tissues, and the ability to engineer robots begin to lead to a reboot.

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

Another concern is the potential ability of a secured creditor to exercise influence over a business, to the extent that the creditor may seize, or threaten seizure of, the encumbered assets of that business upon default.

The energy giant Gazprom and the country s military industries have spearheaded the Kremlin s effort to demonstrate Russia s ability to influence America s neighborhood a direct response to perceived American meddling in Russia s own near abroad, particularly Georgia and Ukraine.

In today s interdependent world, however, it is no longer the number of nuclear warheads that bestows influence, but a country s ability to get others to go along with policies that it regards as serving its major interests.

As exchange markets became ever bigger during the past 20 years, most commentators assumed that central banks ability to influence exchange rates through intervention had shrunk radically. We are in danger of forgetting that vital lesson.

Those three trends are the ability to engineer cells, the ability to engineer tissues, and robots.

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.

If NATO connects with the African Union, for example, and increases the AU s connectedness, then both NATO and the AU become more central to the network and hence more powerful in terms of their ability to exercise influence and marshal resources.

The influence continues to this day.

These two components are (1) the ability to think clearly and make sense of complexity, which is known as eductive ability (from the Latin root educere , meaning to draw out ) and (2) the ability to store and reproduce information, known as reproductive ability.

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

Man has the ability to talk.

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).

Clearly, environmental risks are potentially large enough to affect countries economies in ways that could influence their willingness or ability to repay sovereign debt. In addition, these risks vary widely across countries, including countries whose current credit ratings suggest similar levels of sovereign risk.

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.

Now the other issue comes with, not just the ability to tell pitches apart, but the ability to tell sounds apart.

Trading in influence

And everyone has the ability to contribute.

Tom has the ability to do that.

Weak ability to manage the educational system.

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