The parliamentary action also follows weeks of anger over the recent cross-border rocket barrages from Pakistan, which has a strong interest in maintaining influence in Afghanistan.
Nate's 21st-century political machines would be a nimble breed, assembling to back a candidate or cause and maintaining influence to the extent that their supporters stay engaged, involved and active.
The news organisation has been a hugely successful way of maintaining influence in the Arab world and beyond.
The U.S. position is to support Russia in maintaining influence in E. Europe.
It is possible that Pakistan will decide that it's worth maintaining influence over the Taliban, whatever the cost.
Maintaining influence in Syria.
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The proposals have yet to be agreed, but the group's board structure would incorporate a seat for the council in return for a long-term lease on the land, giving Lewisham a route to maintain influence over its use in perpetuity, while providing the trust with a means to raise cash by having something to borrow against, rather than relying on council subsidy.
Pakistani officials told my colleagues that the contacts were part of a strategy to maintain influence in Afghanistan to prevent India, Pakistan's archenemy, from gaining a foothold.
They said the contacts were less threatening than the American officials depicted and were part of a strategy to maintain influence in Afghanistan for the day when American forces would withdraw and leave what they fear could be a power vacuum to be filled by India, Pakistan's archenemy.
Meanwhile, the United States did not cut off development and military aid to Honduras, in an attempt to maintain influence there.
