Perhaps here the chief influence of heredity, environment, and geographic and racial characteristics is felt.
Officials with the police union contend that the boards can be unfairly swayed by favoritism within the department — or by the chief's influence over the two officers who sit on each panel.
Verse alternates with prose, and, occasionally, the poem becomes a textual net, with fragments of phrases spaced over the page in the manner of Mallarmé (one of Adonis's chief influences).
It filed a federal lawsuit in May charging that the LAPD's disciplinary system is unconstitutional and deprives officers of due process because the chief has unfair influence over two of the three members of the Board of Rights.Though a judge will ultimately decide, the evidence so far doesn't seem persuasive.
John F. Kelly, the current chief of staff whose influence over the president has waned for months, appeared beaten down and less hands-on, according to two White House officials.
That shake-up will now be overseen by a lame duck chief executive with declining influence over the company's work force of nearly 100,000 people, said Robert Bontempo, a professor at Columbia University's business school.
These results suggest that the current Executive-in-Chief exercises a profound influence over removal decisions, undermining the assumption of independence among administrative adjudicators.
Another critical component in the complicated negotiations over a solution is the Great Council of Chiefs, a 100-member group of hereditary and appointed chiefs, who have great influence over native Fijians in rural areas.
One group, the Badr Organization, which is led by Abdul Aziz al-Hakim and fought Saddam Hussein from exile in Iran, has slowly gained virtual control of the Interior Ministry; another, the followers of the young anti-American cleric Moktada al-Sadr, has gained significant influence over chiefs of police and governors' offices in the south of the country.
Islamic religious leaders and traditional chiefs have a tremendous influence over the daily lives of people here.
A tape was broadcast in which Mr Meta appeared to discuss a bribe and boast of his influence over the chief justice.
