Sentence examples for Striving for influence from inspiring English sources
But most politicians are not successful: they labour away, scrabbling for votes, striving for influence, only to find that someone has beaten them to it.
The U.S. government depends on Kazakhstan for supply routes to Afghanistan to the south and wants to cultivate democracy and friendship in a part of the world where Russia and China are striving for influence.
With one rhetorical stroke, Nixon identified a new populist category that redefined how political groups strive for influence.
As Turkey seeks to start negotiating with the European Union to join that club, while striving for greater influence in both the Balkans and the Caucasus, he may find himself sidelined.
Several reports have branded it Quebec's biggest, most rapidly growing right-wing group, an operation striving for political influence.
In my research, I try to understand how the intellectual agents of the Islamic habitus in Turkey pursue alternative intellectual developmental programs, while striving for relevance and influence over national and international audiences.
It is an Iraqi moment, and the movement, striving for the discipline and influence of another Arab Shiite movement, Lebanon's Hezbollah, warned troublemakers in the group not to smear the Sadrists' "clean reputation".
Entertainment Weekly Ken Tucker, noted that the premise of a politician without influence striving for it suited itself well to a comedy and that her frequent cursing should not have been much of an issue given that it was an HBO production.
Striving for perfection and falling short: The influence of goals on probability matching.
At that time, various European countries were striving for dominance, and American traders sought greater influence, in Southeast Asia.
We suggest that society is likely to be better served when scientists strive to be as transparent as possible about the ways that interests and values may influence their judgment and reasoning, while still striving for objectivity.
