The United States so rarely seeks to interfere in currency markets that it carries considerable influence when it does.
(The United States was an observer at the talks because it still hasn't ratified the 1992 treaty, but wielded considerable influence because it was allied with five other countries and treaty issues must be decided by consensus).
But among the capital's power brokers, Mr. Torricelli has accumulated considerable influence, so it is not utterly unthinkable that he would be considered.
But that arrangement provoked protests by municipal officials in Shanghai, which has considerable influence because it is the hometown of many top Communist officials and reportedly hopes someday to become a financial center to rival Hong Kong.
Later, DailyMotion was taken over by Orange, a subsidiary of France Télécom, a former state-owned monopoly in which the French government wields considerable influence because it still holds a 27 percent stake.
He has held senior positions in China's oil industry and still has considerable influence in it; large parts of Xinjiang are being exploited by state-owned enterprises for oil as China's energy needs grow.
"I'm worried that it's going to get a wink and nod in the Senate, and become part of a package at the behest of Sen. McCain, who wields considerable influence there, and it'll come to the floor where it will be part of an entire package, and we won't have the ability to pull that out and separate it," Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz).
Many celebrities hire ghostwriters rather than write their own autobiographies, but an autobiography is still different from a biography because the subject has commissioned the work to be made and can have considerable influence over how it is presented.
The merit of surging is that this should strengthen America's still considerable influence and help it to force the Shias and Kurds to share their power (and oil) with the Sunni minority.
Similarly, in reverse, rather than refer to an economic view that has unfortunately retained considerable influence, possibly because it has a political appeal to some parties, despite extensive empirical evidence that appears to refute the proposition why not just refer to it as a "zombie idea"?
