Sentence examples for exercising his influence from inspiring English sources

His aides say Mr. Ban is as deliberate and earnest in exercising his influence in private as he is in public.

Like a director, he is present, exercising his influence, unseen, on a vast array of movie people and leaving a virtual impression on screens everywhere, from art houses to multiplexes.

He went on to exercise his influence by winning the ear of Margaret Thatcher.

Beyond Hollywood, he has exercised his influence as a prolific fund-raiser for Democratic Party candidates, including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Lib Dem activists oppose most of Andrew Lansley's proposed changes and want Clegg to exercise his influence by watering them down.

Some political insiders also point out that Mr. Hu has promoted some of his military allies to senior posts recently, so he can leave confident that he can exercise his influence through them.

The Compromise was the crowning achievement of Deák's life work, but there was hardly a field of public life in which he did not exercise his influence, and always on the side of humanity, reasoned reform, and good sense.

A remaining factory in Freeport, Ill., garnered national attention when remaining workers began pleading with Romney to exercise his influence over Bain Capital to save their jobs.

It was in his long service as a U.S. senator from Massachusetts (1852 74), however, that he exercised his major influence on history.

Everything could be had in exchange for cash or cotton, and Vidaurri vowed to exercise his "moral influence" in Tamaulipas, the state bordering Texas and the Gulf of Mexico, to keep its port of Bagdad open to the Confederacy.

The Nobel laureate, who has never hidden his fascination with power and its trappings, found in Mr Castro the live incarnation of near-absolute power and an opportunity to exercise his political influence from the sidelines.What outrages Mr García Márquez's detractors is that he has chosen to remain defiantly silent while the rest of the world pours scorn on Mr Castro's repressive policies.