Sentence examples for Influence pushing from inspiring English sources

Lobbyist, company chairman, billionaire investor: a close-harmony chorus of influence pushing policy behind closed doors.

He's has some influence pushing the court toward, for example, permitting government funding of religious schools, through voucher programs.

The borders between England and Scotland were still uncertain during Henry's reign, with Anglo-Norman influence pushing northwards through Cumbria, but Henry's relationship with King David of Scotland was generally good, partially due to Henry's marriage to his daughter.

Several years ago one mosque with links to the two men became so bitterly divided because of the Salafi influence pushed by Bakri that it closed for a year.

Of particular interest is the question of which external circumstances and characters helped to establish the path of Redtenbacher's lifework and how his influence pushed the German manufacturing engineering in the 20th century and even today.

These influences pushed her toward a more symbolic understanding of religious truth and helped shape her vocation as poet.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed: even if mighty politico-commercial influences pushed governments into doing what they did, that is another matter – a way of manipulating markets rather than participating properly in them – and was not the fault of the stock exchange.

The band's drummer Dave Lombardo asserted that his hardcore influences pushed him to play faster, contributing to shape his drumming style.

In a speech on Friday at the ceremony, Mr. Akiba praised the president's "powerful influence" in pushing for nuclear disarmament.

Marouane Fellaini, arguably the biggest of those players Howard refers to in both stature and influence, is pushing to return from a foot injury when Reading visit Goodison on Saturday - the second of four consecutive home matches in all competitions.

Michael Ledeen served in the Reagan Administration as a consultant to the N.S.C. and the Defense Department and as a "special adviser" to the Secretary of State Alexander Haig; during the Bush Junior years he was a powerful inside influence in pushing for war in Iraq and elsewhere.