Influence and status.

Britain in the Wilderness

You, however, are blessed with the gift of influence.

It is therefore no surprise that Putin has sought to use this lever to rebuild Russia s power and to revise the post Soviet order.

Can't the rich do things like that?

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.

And he is going to have even more leverage.

I have every weapon money, connections, prestige.

The US administration, fashionably worried over China s growing regional influence, seems quite happy with a closely tied Japan that could help balance China.

The EU has even more leverage.

He possesses more influence than power.

The Romans also exerted influence on the Persian Gulf.

Unfortunately, the power both sides have exerts an influence

You no longer saw me. You saw only power.

The key factor, in our view, is the global influence of candidates.

I am not a rich person. I am the grandson of the rich person.

It's very cheap. We have a lot of leverage.

You might argue about the sanity of it, but the leverage is real.

The purpose of influence is not to build your ego.

16. Supports the efforts by the High Representative and the Commander of the multinational Stabilization Force to weaken the continued political and economic influence of remaining parallel structures obstructing peace implementation

My pushing is completely balanced by the force of friction.

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

I would urge the international community to make full use of that leverage.

Case No. ORSM 478 relates to an alleged case of influence peddling.

I'm here to tell you today that you are all on the brink of influence.

You're begging to go back into uniform, pounding a beat out in the sticks.

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 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 Sail that claims today that it is dedicated to fight the Syrian influence in Lebanon

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

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.

However, hegemonism and power politics continue to hold out.

Each one of you, in the seat that you stand in today, is on the brink of influence.