In the process, Mr. Johnson said, he has been able to witness the rising importance of new-media outlets and the lessening influence of traditional media outlets like Time magazine, which recently printed his essay on (surprise!) the transformative power of Twitter.
The paradox of superpower status and lessening influence, the American inclination toward international engagement, and the near-inevitability of selective engagement are realities that American policymakers and would-be presidents would be wise to understand.
Although all the major composers were church trained and fully cognizant of modal structures, a rapidly increasing use of chromatic tones in the 16th century lessened the influence of modal sonorities.
All this has hurt Arafat's standing among Palestinians and lessened his influence on the street".
His solution was practical – and radical: "We chose a poor village in three of the poorest states of India and offered training to their best students, with a promise of at least two years' employment". By avoiding hiring all his workers from the labor pool in Hyderabad, where Bharat is based, Ella lessened the influence of local labor unions.
This result suggests that governments intent on efficient restructuring retain smaller ownership in privatized public entities, and lessened political influence improves long-run performance.
Discussing the nomination fight, Sanders said his chances have been improved by Democratic Party rule changes that have significantly lessened the influence of convention superdelegates whose votes aren't determined by the outcomes of their home state caucuses of primaries.
However, the lack of participation by physicians in the working groups lessened their influence on the process.
The Qatar office is seen as a way of lessening Pakistani influence over the talks.
It was March 1956, and Nutting had been working on a plan to lessen the influence of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the charismatic president of postcolonial Egypt.
They found instead that by the early 1970s the accusation of pandering was being used deliberately by prominent journalists, politicians, and other elites as a means of lessening the influence of public opinion on government policy.
