US influence in Burma is unlikely to outweigh that of increasingly powerful Asian neighbors.

That influence is bolstered by the electoral rules inherent bias in favor of powerful parties.

Again, the worldwide influence of the powerful liberal media in the US should not be underestimated.

But, apart from its military strength, the USSR was never really powerful enough to counterbalance US influence.

But their influence was powerful and lasting, and extended in directions that they could not have anticipated.

This game dynamic is so powerful that it doesn't just influence our behavior, it's influenced our entire culture.

This process does not occur in a historical vacuum, devoid of the influence of powerful social and political factors.

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

The war in Vietnam was raging, the Civil Rights movement was under way and pictures had a powerful influence on me.

An alternative scenario relies on the powerful unifying impact of human capital, the defining factor in the quest for global influence.

However he was of little influence compared to powerful military figures from Kinshasa, U.S. diplomats said in comments released via WikiLeaks.

China s state owned enterprises are powerful forces in the economy, with substantial political influence they will resist the shift from heavy industry to services.

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.

For now, however, those representative elements that have been added incrementally are not powerful enough to overcome the growing corruption and excessive influence of vested interests.

Classical Greek culture, especially philosophy, had a powerful influence on the Roman Empire, which carried a version of it to many parts of the Mediterranean Basin and Europe.

Like Austria Hungary, the EU finds itself lodged between two powerful neighbors a resurgent Russia intent on regaining lost influence, and a seemingly revisionist United States preoccupied with foreign military adventures.

Torn between its two objectives, China placed a higher priority on preserving the Kim family dynasty. That choice gave rise to a seeming paradox North Korea gained surprisingly powerful influence over China.

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.

At the time of her accession, the government was led by the Whig prime minister Lord Melbourne, who at once became a powerful influence on the politically inexperienced Queen, who relied on him for advice.

Further minimizing reliance on a single major partner, successive Czech governments have welcomed U.S. investment (amongst others) as a counterbalance to the strong economic influence of Western European partners, especially of their powerful neighbour, Germany.

Egypt also has a powerful secret weapon that is yet to be fully deployed a generation of young people who, after years of alienation and repression, believe that they can (and should) influence the country s destiny.

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.

We call this phenomenon virtual integration, and it is the primary reason why the integration illusion the belief that we are moving toward a colorblind nation has such a powerful influence on race relations in America today.

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.

The Syrian regime of President Bashar Assad retains huge influence over key levers of the Lebanese state, including the security and intelligence apparatus, the army, and the judiciary not to mention an alliance with the militarily powerful Hezbollah.

For one thing, risk takers are typically small, cohesive interest groups that, once rescued, have a powerful incentive, as well as the resources, to buy the political influence needed to ensure a return to the status quo ante.

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.

While some Shia who were prominent allies of the Baathist regime hold positions of great influence in the new Iraq, Sunnis will never know when they will be shut out of the process, especially if they become too powerful.

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.

Sometimes, they influence how we analyze and classify the world around us the linguists contributing to this site want to share more of these 'untranslatable' words, and in the process, show why these small languages are distinctive, valuable, and powerful.

We can influence behavior.

They will lose influence.

Mexico s Powerful Energy Reforms

North Korea s Powerful Weakness

Dulping Ogan, secretary general of the Mindanao based indigenous alliance Kalumaran, said the brutal dispersal shows the continuing powerful influence of the US in the country with police willing to inflict harm on national minorities to keep protesters away from the embassy

With influence must come accountability.

Factors that influence health conditions

The UNICEF findings are powerful.

The Powerlessness of the Powerful

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).

America was powerful enough to destabilize the existing regional order, but not powerful enough to establish a new one.

Finance shapes power, ideas, and influence.