Sentence examples for discreet influence from inspiring English sources

Its outcome will determine whether TI adopts a more bottom-up, combative approach or whether it continues to give priority to exercising discreet influence in the international corridors of power.

Yet politics, especially gossipy high politics, is not always fair or logical; and the fact is that after decades of discreet influence – "I try my best to stay invisible," he said on his first, belated appearance before a select committee in 2012 – Heywood has become a story.

The 24-year-old brought in €75m but Draxler, the man signed for nearly half that sum, is only half the player in terms of direct impact, a much more discreet influence on proceedings who cannot, by himself, lift the rest of the team to another level.

For nearly 40 years, he had relied on Forwood's counsel and discreet, calming influence.

He oversees the day-to-day running of the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Telegraph.co.uk and also another part of the Barclays publishingg empire, the Spectator, but keeps a low profile and is discreet about the influence he exerts.

A sizable part of the book is devoted to Eisenhower's discreet but powerful influence: over Truman (who made the mistake of suggesting publicly that the war hero Eisenhower become a presidential candidate); over "that young whippersnapper" John F. Kennedy, who badly needed strategic advice after the Bay of Pigs fiasco; and of course over his own vice president, Nixon.

Yesterday, that influence was discreet, or, as a French man would say, seductive.

All were played with an unconventional clouded tone, and the discreet addition of vocabulary influenced by John Coltrane made Rendell's sound instantly recognisable.

I hate conspiracy theories, but I'm convinced that the discreet '1001 club' still influences the strategic decisions of the WWF, because many of its members are important players in global and powerful financial and industrial corporations that rule the planet," Huismann told the Observer.

Discreet subclasses of SUMO proteases influence specific aspects of plant development and responses to the environment with limited functional overlap indicating that the all-important substrate specificity within the plant SUMO system may be mediated by these DeSUMOylating proteases30.

The Jewish community has long preferred to attempt to influence the political process through discreet advocacy and relationship building rather than through public demonstrations and campaigning.