Sentence examples for a certain influence and from inspiring English sources

"Despite the successes of the rebels, Qaddafi and his supporters still have a certain influence and military potential," he told journalists after meeting in Siberia with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il.

Marie maintained a certain influence on her husband and the entire court, leading historian A. L. Easterman to write that "it was not [Ferdinand], but Marie who ruled in Romania".

MR. HOWARD: I believe Mr. Madison was old enough and wise enough to take it for granted that there was such a thing as the law of nature which has a certain influence even in political affairs, and that by that law women and children are not regarded as the equals of men.

"When we went to Medjimurje, we were mobbed by these pleading people, because we were from the Helsinki Committee, and it had a certain reputation and a certain influence by then".

Hence, although a certain influence of the photoreceptors BLR1 and BLR2 on transcription of phlp1 was observed, the function of ENV1 in regulation of phlp1 is likely more relevant with respect to light response.

Moreover, the hardness and the ratios of H/E and H3/E2 also have a certain influence on the wear rate of the coatings.

As demonstrated by O'Hara and Mayhew (2009), the growth medium has a certain influence on the occurrence of VOCs over bacterial cultures.

Her words have a certain influence because she is one of the few artists to have been directly attacked by Mr. Haider's party.

Negotiations with WPP preceded this, but Mr. Migoya says that having a presence in Brazil "had a certain influence in WPP's investment".

The dinosaurs may be long gone, but that hasn't stopped them exercising a certain influence over style – take Julien David's fun dino prints, for example.

(b) Substituents have a certain influence on the activity.