Sentence examples for exercising its influence from inspiring English sources

The administration allowed the need to placate labor unions to hinder the United States from exercising its influence.

Aksum continued to dominate the Red Sea coast until the end of the 9th century, exercising its influence from the shores of the Gulf of Aden to Zeila on the northern coast of Somaliland (modern Somalia and Djibouti).

And if you go down to St. Mark's Place in the East Village today, you can still see Nico's blond inimical sheen and predilection for black pants suits exercising its influence on the kind of young women who prefer to be seen but not held.

While politicians do their best to control it, media also exercises its influence on politicians.

Qatar in particular now holds the presidency at the Arab Summit, which gives it the legitimacy to exercise its influence.

To the extent that the Roman Catholic Church in the DRC has attempted to exercise its influence in terms of family planning, it has been to promote natural methods over "artificial contraception".

Administration officials say the United States will have to exercise its influence tactfully and quietly.

Despite the intricate political sensitivities involved, the United States should exercise its influence, by withholding its $2 billion in annual aid to Egypt, to defend one of its own citizens.

"I asked that China, given its close ties with Myanmar, exercise its influence, and Prime Minister Wen said he would make such efforts," Mr. Fukuda said.

Neighboring governments want China, the North's major ally and its biggest provider of aid and trade, to exercise its influence on North Korea.

Mr. Rubin also said that the United States had asked Syria to "exercise its influence" over Hezbollah to get them to restrain themselves.