Other presidential appointees exert considerable influence on firms, industries, or the entire economy.

Britain in the Wilderness

The Group is concerned by the continued influence exerted by high ranking officers of the former Ituri armed groups over their men, even as they await full integration into the ranks of FARDC.

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

With influence must come accountability.

No Country for Young Oligarchs

Finland fell into the Soviet sphere.

The EU has even more leverage.

He possesses more influence than power.

The Romans also exerted influence on the Persian Gulf.

The JRP aspires to be a ruling party, or at least a kingmaker in Japanese politics, but it has an almost exclusively domestic agenda and suffers from a dearth of talent below Hashimoto.

Russia has had centuries of influence in the Middle East and Central Asia, much of which used to be incorporated in the Russian and Soviet empires.

The White Moors are a light skinned Berber people who speak Arabic.

Developments in these countries during the postcommunist years marked a gradual change from Russian to European influence, but that is not irreversible.

The party then hemorrhaged influential members, particularly in the north.

In Iraq, free elections have revealed the enormous influence of Islamist currents.

This confederation, under French influence, put an end to the Holy Roman Empire.

The democratization of Iraq has empowered the Shi a majority, which in turn greatly strengthened Iran s influence. Indeed, the war in Iraq has transformed the centuries old Shi a Sunni conflict by infusing it with modern geopolitical significance and extending it to the entire region.

Asia s new clout holds tremendous promise.

Here India has been slow to join the struggle for influence.

As it stands, India and China are openly competing for influence in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Nepal, and Bangladesh.

Over time, enhanced influence will enable him to get more things done.

Overlapping spheres of influence and frozen conflicts could again cause major conflict.

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

Parma was under French influence after the Peace of Aachen (1748).

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

Sami is a complete idiot.

Our teacher is a complete idiot.

The purpose of influence is not to build your ego, or your net worth.

Japan recognized the link between political clout and science in the 1980 s.

They concern disputes over territory, political power, definitions of rights, and distribution of wealth.

But America s dwindling leverage cannot match the influence of the region s axis of evil.

America s influential Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) also was established under Nixon.

China s current international influence likely outstrips its desire or capacity.

Layla's house burned to the ground.

Your whole life is a complete disaster.

Sami was a complete idiot.

The Law was fully applied.

The entire world knows the risk posed by a nuclear Iran a drastically altered balance of power in the Middle East and Central Asia, with Iran able to exert far more regional leverage  both overt and implicit  than it now possesses in pursuit of its interests.

The entire world knows the risk posed by a nuclear Iran a drastically altered balance of power in the Middle East and Central Asia, with Iran able to exert far more regional leverage both overt and implicit than it now possesses in pursuit of its interests.

But influence is not an end in itself it is a means to an end.

No diplomat could match that kind of influence.

The outcry after the first BMW case was not really about the light sentence given to a rich woman, but about the lack of confidence ordinary people have in China's judicial system.

The democratization of Iraq has empowered the Shi a majority, which in turn greatly strengthened Iran s influence.

But Cuba s influence on the old FMLN leadership remains intact.