These set a fashion in church building and decoration that was to exercise an influence for many centuries.
General Smuts, the Prime Minister of South Africa remarked: "Mr Lloyd George once said to me that the Manchester Guardian exercised an influence entirely out of proportion to its circulation.
Beautiful and intelligent, she exercised an influence over her husband that was decisive in establishing and maintaining Sir Robert Walpole as prime minister (1730 42).
Other commentators, however, while sympathetic to Celyn's family, are less than enchanted with the sight of the mummy-warriors marching forth yet again, exercising an influence they believe is disproportionate to their numbers.
That means, as it has for years, that people from, say, fifteen to twenty-five years of age exercise an influence on what gets made by the studios way out of proportion to their numbers in the population.
Where "political campaign contributions (financial or otherwise) exercise an influence on the nature of posting received," the desirability of a posting should correspond to the size of the campaign contribution.
In 1949, when the People's Republic of China was formed, Christians represented only 1 percent of the Chinese population, but they exercised an influence out of all proportion to their size.
And carnivores? "Because large carnivores regulate other predators and prey, exercising an influence on the ecosystem far out of proportion to their numbers, their protection and reintroduction is crucial".
