Protest is a way of influencing when all other avenues have been shut down.
They also offer a way of influencing the behaviour of millions.
The events that have defined America have had a way of influencing its junk food, too.
Why it became necessary to meet/greet/wine/dine is simple... just a way of influencing, buying a vote.
"If Booker interferes in this thing there is a way of stopping him," he said in a stump speech, adding, "We have a way of influencing Negroes down here".
He was vehemently against it after witnessing the violence of war in Vietnam, he said, but "20 years in corrections has a way of influencing your outlook on things".
The complex sugars, for instance, are evidently a way of influencing the gut microflora, so they might in principle be used to help premature babies, or those born by caesarean, who do not immediately acquire the bifido strain.
"When cameras are taken along on massive police operations during an election period, I think it's a way of influencing opinion, with the goal of spreading fear," said Ségolène Royal, the Socialist Party candidate who lost the May 2007 presidential election to Mr. Sarkozy.
However, it is often difficult to decide whether a way of influencing someone is illegitimate or whether motivations and beliefs are signs of mental illness (see entry on Mental Illness).
The problem with this is that time, seasons, people, and life in general have a way of influencing, making direct comparisons of two very incomparable events inaccurate.
