"He was a restraining influence on the uber-modernisation tendencies and that influence has been removed".
It wasn't a radical shift, but Loeb had been a restraining influence, someone who kept the production, or sales, division from assuming too much power.
On the first issue, there is little question that at times, Mr. Tenet was a restraining influence on a White House that often seemed inclined to turn tips into facts, and theories into evidence.
While there is some sympathy for the idea that Mr Blair has been a restraining influence on the Americans, his closeness to Mr Bush and apparent keenness to go to war is disturbing to many Europeans in a way that Mr Schröder's quasi-pacifism and even Mr Chirac's Gaullist posturing are not.
The largest and most influential recording label of the time, The Victor Talking Machine (RCA Victor after 1928) was a restraining influence on the development of "sweet jazz" until the departure of Eddie King in October 1926.
Barack Obama, in the chair and wishing to be seen as a restraining influence, agrees the final schedule of names.
Cohn, the former president of Goldman Sachs, is popular on Wall Street, where he has been seen as a restraining influence against Trump's protectionist leanings.
The practical, pragmatic globalists in the audience will have interpreted it as evidence that the practical, pragmatic globalists around Trump, such as Cohn, are still exercising a restraining influence.
As president, Ciampi was credited with exercising a restraining influence on the authoritarian instincts of Silvio Berlusconi when the controversial media tycoon was prime minister.
