Sentence examples for assistance to influence from inspiring English sources
Hard-line Shiite leaders in Iran are seeking to influence the outcome of Iraq's national election, he said, through public and covert action — investments and other financial assistance to influence voters, as well as its continued support to violent groups within Iraq.
Perhaps the best-documented recent example of the power of foreign assistance to influence public opinion was the response of the Indonesian people, the world's most populous Muslim country, after the U.S. provided hundreds of millions of dollars toward relief from the tsunami of 2004.
(South America) A related issue was the desire for expert assistance to influence food advertising practices.
UNICEF engages in policy dialogue, the sharing of knowledge and public campaigns and provides technical assistance to influence positive social change.
One system worked with IT staff and technical assistance providers to influence their future EHR system while simultaneously building new processes for screening, treatment and referral within their current system.
Tenant based rental assistance programmes aim to influence area characteristics by moving disadvantaged people from areas of high poverty to areas of low poverty.
The level of assistance did not seem to influence the patient's feeling of dyspnea, despite an obvious raising of the ventilatory demand.
The alliances seemed to influence the assistance of the new residents in different and unpredictable ways.
Despite the assistance, the DEA did not try to influence the content of the script.
While concern about a high hospitalization rate might encourage a state health department to request assistance from CDC in a Salmonella outbreak, susceptibility results are usually not known initially and are unlikely by themselves to influence the request for assistance.
For example, Hoddinott (1992, 1994) finds evidence that in western Kenya, parents can use inheritable assets to influence the level of assistance that they receive from their sons.
