Sentence examples for form of influence from inspiring English sources
But Hitchcock's sense of perfection achieved through control lends itself to an especially neurotic and self-defeating form of influence.
"If he hopes the trophy asset, which could lose £17.5m this year, will confer compensating non-cash benefits, in the form of influence and prestige, he may be disappointed".
They are opposing Mr. Assad's Arab nationalist regime in an attempt to dictate the kind of country that will emerge from the chaos and to ensure some form of influence over the new Syria.
The same might be true of peer pressure, a good argument, or any other form of influence for which one cannot say, "Person B has an obligation to obey Person A and hand over all the money".
On reflection, this is largely why I felt impelled to become a novelist myself – so perhaps this is a form of influence, albeit one that Williamson's work shared with many others; still, this was a formal property of the text, not to do with its specific content.
Mr. Kasyanov, attuned to Russia's need for growth and foreign investment, was reported by the Interfax news agency as saying, "The arrest of shares of a private company traded on the market is a new phenomenon, the consequences of which are hard to define, since it is a new form of influence".
Why this form of influence-peddling, unlike Wal-Mart's bribery in Mexico, isn't a scandal is worth pondering.
But while Deller says they "have absolutely no say" with regards to content, others point to more subtle forms of influence.
In this year of equal marriage, there is also a new, additional list … Our judges debated long and hard, weighing several forms of "influence" in making their choices.
