Sentence examples for gained influence over from inspiring English sources

How had baboons gained influence over the education of Ghanaian children?

Tom Hayden moved to Newark in 1964, and, with several other S.D.S. activists, gained influence over the federally funded anti-poverty program in Newark, using it as a political base in challenging the city government.

Upper-level organizations, although less well-financed, gradually have gained influence over enterprise unions despite decades of severe ideological rivalry, which began in the 1920s and revived with Japan's defeat in World War II.

Representative Michele Bachmann, a Minnesota Republican and a member of the Tea Party movement, claimed in a recent letter that the Muslim Brotherhood had gained influence over the U.S. State Department.

More recently, the Iraqi Awakening Conference, a tribal-centric political party based in Anbar Province (where Sunni tribesmen, the so-called Sons of Iraq, turned against the insurgency during the surge) has gained influence over the Seventh Iraq Army Division, which was heavily involved in recruiting Sunnis to maintain security in 2006.

An article on Friday about the Club for Growth, a free-market advocacy group that rates members of Congress, misstated the number of congressional terms served by Representative Jack Kingston, a Republican of Georgia who said the group had gained influence over the years.

In the 19th century, Japan and China fought to gain influence over the Korean Peninsula.

They also want to prevent the United States from gaining influence over any more Syrian territory.

However, the skeptics about free trade have been gaining influence over the past decade.

The board appointments, supported by shareholders, are the latest development in the battle to gain influence over PG&E.

And any party that joins the new Serbian government will also gain influence over the police and judiciary in Sandzak.