Dialogue between States parties and these treaty bodies provided an opportunity to positively influence policy development and change.

Religious moderation, if not secularization, remains the key not only to social integration, but also to Muslims opportunity to influence Europe s future.

The recent saffron revolution in Burma presented China with not only a challenge, but also an opportunity to exert its influence.

Firstly, Estonia fully supported the goal of giving indigenous people the opportunity to influence their own destiny and safeguard their identity.

Creative diplomacy, the influence of economic power and the credible threat of military force all have contributed to this moment of opportunity.

But, despite past US administrations opportunity to make their influence felt, they preferred to permit Israel, an allied, friendly state, to do what it wanted.

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.

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.

The alternative is a world in which we remain hostage to the region s pathologies, which provide ample opportunity for Al Qaeda to reassert its narrative and influence.

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

Influence.

And when it comes to national security and foreign policy, as with our economy, the last few years have been a time of declining influence and missed opportunity.

The influence continues to this day.

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.

The only way we can influence what would happen next is to influence what's happening now.

And so the purpose of influence is to speak up for those who have no influence.

Influence you.

Influence, huh?

All parties to the Kyoto Protocol, including African nations, have a unique opportunity to influence the post 2012 debate and defend the inclusion of land use projects in the emerging carbon market.

With the recent elections in the United States and the rise of Asia s global influence, there is an opportunity to turn the world s attention to the most critical challenges facing our planet.

Although Osama bin Laden and his chief lieutenant, Aiman Al Zawahiri, may issue the occasional video or audio tape, their opportunity to exert any meaningful direction, as opposed to influence, is seriously limited.

In Brazil, for example, civil society representatives comprise two thirds of the National Council on Food and Nutrition Security, and thus have the opportunity to influence policymaking at the highest level.

These fora primarily deals with the position of women within the party, but also have the opportunity to influence decision making in competent institutions by establishing common positions on specific issues.

I want you to give me influence.

You seem to have great influence here.

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

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Influence and status.

With your influence...

Women have influence.

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

Shippers today are claimed to have equal commercial power with carriers to influence carriage arrangements and sometimes greater influence than carriers.

The world, including the United States, disapproves of the Israeli settlements. But, despite past US administrations opportunity to make their influence felt, they preferred to permit Israel, an allied, friendly state, to do what it wanted.

It has been considered as an opportunity to call attention to the problems of families and, as such, perhaps to start rational political and social actions with a permanently beneficial influence on the lives of families.

To consider Islam as a civilization that is not susceptible to change is an historical fallacy. Religious moderation, if not secularization, remains the key not only to social integration, but also to Muslims opportunity to influence Europe s future.

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

Iran could also view the transitions in Central Asia as an opportunity to expand its regional influence, particularly given its close ethnic and cultural ties with Tajikistan and its long border with Turkmenistan.

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

(d) Strategic partnerships to influence the global agenda.

Factors likely to influence the mission subsistence allowance.

But Exxon had other ways to influence policy,

like How to Win Friends and Influence People.

I'm sure he'll be able to influence them.

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