| He will tell it to anyone who is in earshot and who he thinks can exert influence. |
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| He cannot let external conditions exert influence upon the results of his thinking. |
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| It became harder for the Canadiens to exert influence over the Cree and Chipewyans by trade goods alone. |
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| Increasingly, I am becoming aware that the Commissioner can exert influence and can initiate change. |
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| As the largest shareholder in the fund, the United States can exert influence on its policies. |
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| The Act establishes a system for employees to exert influence in areas of their special academic competency. |
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| Schools start to exert influence on the leisure education process as early as the kindergarten. |
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| Now science could exert influence on the general public and change the structure of society through technology. |
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| When one organization is able to exert influence because of its checkbook, an entire national security debate is discredited. |
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| Our members and supporters exert influence on governments, political bodies, companies and intergovernmental groups. |
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| In addition, GE is in a statutory position to exert influence on which SNECMA employee will be filling this post at any one time. |
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| Business is right to exert influence on politics: after all, it's about the country's commercial future, the preservation of jobs and prosperity. |
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| Critical literacy activities help children understand how stereotypes are created in literature and how they exert influence on behaviour. |
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| In that way, the minorities could exert influence and the police could be more effective. |
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| Minorities have not formed separate parties from those led by Tswana, preferring to exert influence from within. |
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| Governors in both parties, however, have long sought to exert influence over authorities and commissions. |
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| The purpose of this action is to exert influence and obtain finances. |
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| One of KAN's tasks is to focus the public interests in the field of occupational health and safety and to exert influence on current and future standardization projects by delivering opinions on specific subjects. |
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| However, Edward proceeded to treat Balliol as a vassal, and tried to exert influence over Scotland. |
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| Unlike bribery, which is aimed at buying a decision directly from the decision maker, the concept of influence peddling involves paying a third party to exert influence on the decision maker. |
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| Nicholson said it suggested a desire to exert influence. |
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| For tactical reasons, they prefer to exert influence as outsiders. |
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| He can exert influence over another three, which the government controls. |
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| But as soon as you become a public company, shareholders exert influence. |
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| Secondly, does development aid comply under all circumstances with the laws of developing countries on abortion, or is the attempt being made here to exert influence on legislation in those countries? |
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| It was observed that all Council members should take the responsibility of making persuasive arguments to support their views and exert influence on the Council's decisions. |
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| Therefore, Canada must be in a position to engage in the negotiations and exert influence in order to ensure our interests are articulated and achieved in all aspects of the negotiations. |
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| International groups, in particular those that can help attract resources, can also exert influence, but local groups will continue to carry great influence. |
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| They may also exert influence over the project and its deliverables. |
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| The meetings may be a venue through which civil society organisations can exert influence on Bank management and policies, although this has not been the case so far. |
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| We must also prevent financial contributions to parties from becoming another way for lobby groups to exert influence over elected officials and their decisions. |
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| There is also a very powerful lobby of arms producers, which is there on the eve of the American elections to exert influence in order to be able to sell a product. |
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| The financial status of judges has significantly improved, and through the Judicial Council the judges may exert influence on the designing of the budget for the work of courts. |
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| This pertains in particular to the payment of bribes and payoffs and to extortion in order to exert influence on business partners and representatives of politics, administration, judicial systems or the public. |
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| It is at least as important that trade unions exert influence upon developments in individual workplaces and so achieve better working environments. |
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| Turner and Innis continue to exert influence over the historiography of the American and Canadian Wests. |
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| The Zahiri school, which is commonly identified as extinct, continues to exert influence over legal thought. |
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| Superpower is a term used to describe a state with a dominant position, which is characterised by its extensive ability to exert influence or project power on a global scale. |
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| However, since even the most powerful empires of old had little to no means to exert influence over very long distances, labeling them as such is complicated. |
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| Impressive American import Andrew Keister moved steadily towards his standard double double and Keith Page began to exert influence from the backcourt. |
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| Powys, however, was not strong enough to garrison Rhufoniog and Rhos, nor was Chester able to exert influence inland from its coastal holdings of Rhuddlan and Degannwy. |
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| At the same time he also recognised that if he could exert influence and pressure on the BBC, the Corporation could become a useful tool to serve Plaid Cymru's political ends. |
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| Social tension has heightened during Leung's term, with many Hongkongers believing that PR China increased their efforts to exert influence on everyday life in Hong Kong. |
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| The board is thus in a position to exert influence and set in motion policies that can affect the acquisition and retention of valuable TMT human capital. |
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| As well, if investors have a significant stake in the company, they may be able to exert influence on company strategy, CEO choice, and other important decisions. |
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| This parliamentary custom, however, was discouraged under New Labour after 1998, despite the Government not being supposed to exert influence over the Speaker. |
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