Although she does step in to provide a bolstering influence on a young French runaway, Vanessa, who comes along for part of the ride… But we risk getting ahead of ourselves.
The global economic slowdown, however hard it is hitting Asia, may in relative terms serve to bolster Asian influence.
The union, with 850,000 members, and the Sierra Club, which has 750,000, said their partnership should help bolster the influence of unions and environmentalists.
If the United States and Israel had formed a Joint Commission to Support Hamas Extremists and Bolster Iranian Influence among Palestinians, they could hardly have done a better job.
If the U.S. and Israel had formed a Joint Commission to Support Hamas Extremists and Bolster Iranian Influence, they could hardly have done a better job.
Iran's financial crisis, exacerbated by American sanctions, appears to be undermining its support for militant groups and political allies who bolster Iranian influence in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and elsewhere.
There are signs that the US is trying to bolster its influence in a region France has long considered its backyard.
The prosecution, which has rested its case, has charged that he armed and commanded rebel groups to bolster his influence in West Africa and to seize a large swath of neighboring Sierra Leone, in particular its diamond-mining areas.
Putin has met Tsipras on several occasions this spring as the debt crisis has intensified, leading to suggestions that Moscow might be prepared to step in where Brussels fears to tread in order to bolster its influence in southeastern Europe.
But if anything could bolster its influence, it would be any attempt by western powers to thwart the democratic process, either by allowing remnants of the old regime to cling to power or by denying Islamists their democratic rights.
During the 1980s, Saudi Arabia spent more than $75bn on the propagation of Wahhabi doctrine, funding schools, mosques, and charities across the Islamic world in an effort to bolster its influence.
