Minority politicians have long wielded authority, if not power, in its various high offices.

This means that economists and other thought leaders can exert much influence for good or ill.

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.

Influence and status.

The Romans also exerted influence on the Persian Gulf.

And, like America then, India is not naturally at ease with the notion of exercising global power.

The EU and the US should wield more of their clout at the World Bank and other international organizations to link development grants to progress on press freedom and human rights.

Britain in the Wilderness

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

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

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.

NATO is still dominated by the US, and European allies still fall in line, if only just to keep the alliance going and in the hope of exerting some influence on the only remaining superpower.

Can't the rich do things like that?

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.

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.

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.

And theirs is the kind of influence that can finally unblock the situation.

Super Powers and nations are no longer the only influences at play in the international arena.

Express consent to exercise of jurisdiction

Shall we practice the practical skill portion?

Advice ranges from sex in old age to tourism.

The EU has even more leverage.

He possesses more influence than power.

Unfortunately, the power both sides have exerts an influence

You no longer saw me. You saw only power.

States may choose individually not to exercise all their rights, or to exercise those rights collectively.

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

Ever since the European powers set sail at the end of the fifteenth century to conquer the world, historiography and international politics have become accustomed to a certain pattern military, economic, and technological power is translated into the exercise of influence over other countries, conquest, and even global dominance and empire.

Or at least, you know, try and flip it into a threeway.

I can't put any pressure on the Mayor!

64. The provisions of the Constitution, and widespread government practice, ensure satisfactory enjoyment of freedom of expression in El Salvador.

This means a strategy based on political leverage not a threat of military intervention or regime change.

The pace of the decline of Western influence seems to have accelerated over the past decade.

Many Afghans complain that armed strongmen continue to dominate their local communities.

The United Nations enables us to work together to thwart ruthless assertion of self interest and spheres of influence.

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