The Contact Group needs to be able to influence the assessment of standards implementation.

This defines a future horizon , which limits the events in the future that we will be able to influence.

The sovereign state is influenced by them (for better and for worse) as much as it is able to influence them.

By being more pro active, the Chinese might have been able to influence the policies that ultimately come from the American side.

Although Ozawa retains considerable influence and so may be able to exercise his will on the DPJ, this must not be allowed to happen.

This was the first evidence of how effective popular initiative, guided by those in the Risorgimento, was able to influence Charles Albert of Sardinia.

Those who see the danger of a culture war with Muslims, or the hostile branding of minorities, should be able to influence opinion with practical arguments.

Thus empowered, the general has been able to exert his influence over foreign policy, in particular in defining the country s relations with the US, India, and Afghanistan.

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.

For optimists, Turkey s growing regional influence enhances its value for the EU. But this assumes that Europe is willing and able to benefit from what Turkey has to offer.

Iraq s Kurds may even be able to extend their influence into Kurdish populated northern Syria, thereby becoming a more influential regional player than the Iraqi government in Baghdad.

With the end of colonialism, French culture was also able to exert a direct influence in Latin America, especially in the realms of high culture, science and medicine.

It should not be construed as a licence to practise a religion, and no one religious group should be able to exert influence over the registration of other religious groups.

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

Iraq could have been a winner, had it been able to translate the recovery of its oil industry and the withdrawal of US troops into political stabilization and regional influence.

The first group, which includes Osama bin Laden, still has importance and influence, and retains the hope that one day it will be able to reassert control of the organization.

The secretariat is in the process of establishing closer links with UNESCO and expects that the two bodies will be able to influence positively each other's programmes related to forestry in the future.

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.

So now, if the inner conditions are stronger of course, the outer conditions do influence, and it's wonderful to live longer, healthier, to have access to information, education, to be able to travel, to have freedom. It's highly desirable.

The influence continues to this day.

This challenge arises from the fact that, while standardized bureaucracies possess the virtues of stability and predictability, they do so primarily because they are able to deflect external influence and authority sharing to a substantial degree.

So what we've been able to do is we've been able to harness the power and the influence of the only truly transnational institution in the global supply chain, that of the multinational company, and get them to do the right thing, get them to use that power for good, to deliver the key public goods.

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

Whether America is able to strengthen its global influence in the future will depend not so much on its moral esteem, but on the extent to which it succeeds in revamping its economy and forging new alliances.

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 American political scientist Andrew Moravcsik makes the similar argument that European nations, singly and collectively, are the only states other than the US that are able to exert global influence across the full spectrum from hard to soft power.

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.

If a trilateral Northeast Asian FTA can be concluded, the three countries would be able to generate more market demand domestically at a time of weak demand from the West, and would gain greater influence in the global political economy.

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.

Very, very hard to think that you will influence us.

Of course, these considerations ought not to influence the legislation.

Former leaders of Ituri armed groups continue to wield influence

With influence must come accountability.

Factors that influence health conditions

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.