Sentence examples for desire for influence from inspiring English sources

So far, the desire for influence in the Caribbean has outweighed economic pressures in Venezuela.

Korea's desire for influence in the region has also had a constructive impact on Asean itself by pushing trade and financial agreements between Asean and the three northeast Asian countries, which otherwise could well have foundered on Sino-Japanese rivalry.

Among the changes being discussed are ways to satisfy New York City officials' desire for more influence over what happens at the former World Trade Center site, officials close to the governor say.

Thus, politicians would do well to conduct a respectful and restrained debate over Scotland's referendum; to do otherwise could sow the seeds for long-term discord.Finally, there is the desire for political influence.

In the case of China, the term is increasingly employed to paint a picture of a 21st-century version of the Great Game, the 19th-century maneuvering for primacy in Central Asia, in which China's search for oil is merging with its desire for greater influence, from Africa to Latin America to the Middle East.

Correlation and multiple regression analyses suggest that negative emotions and desire for relief influence primarily pain affect and that pain-evoked autonomic responses are strongly associated with pain affect.

Meanwhile, politicians through threats to their incumbency or for a desire for greater influence, inflame the forces of regression to levels of primitive rage and fear of anyone or any idea that threatens pre-conceived notions of cultural superiority.

No established history, no organic movement Hopkins was born from that fundamental American pathos of having a lot of money coupled with the desire for prestige, influence and legacy.

The article attacks the decades-old partnership between two strands of American Christianity ― fundamentalist evangelicals and Catholics who are brought together by the "same desire for religious influence in the political sphere".

Although ambivalent about pregnancy, R.Z.'s concerns about the responsibilities of motherhood and desire for leisure influence her contraception use: I haven't had any children.

Was the "demon that possessed Jeannette Rankin," as is written in a 2005 biography, "her desire for fame and influence"?