I maintain therefore that this attempt to gain some influence over the police and the SS also failed.
We are starting to see something that, for the most part, we haven't before: evidence that shareholders — the people who actually own public companies — are gaining some influence over corporate pay practices.
By negotiating for approval to own Chinese debt, Japan can register its discomfort with China's actions and gain some influence of its own.Japan will not simply be able to buy whatever it likes, however.
"I believe that our Gree brand is gaining some influence step by step overseas, but I think this needs time," she says.
In particular, it suggests that medical and pharmaceutical education is influential as empirical contexts within the field of flipped classroom research, with educational technology journals beginning to gain some influence.
In a speech on 27 November Khamenei criticized the Rouhani administration for the nuclear negotiations "that was done in haste," allowing the U.S. to gain some influence.
On occasion the two men clashed on matters of policy, but Reitz remained true to his own convictions, gaining some influence over Kruger in the process.
The first World Trade Center bombing was a plot against Muslims because they were trying to create the equivalent of a Zionist lobby in order to gain some influence in America.
Thucydides is in agreement with Plutarch that the Persian fleet was at Aspendus and that Alcibiades told the troops he would bring the fleet to their side or prevent it from coming at all, but Thucydides further speculates that the real reason was to flaunt his new position to Tissaphernes and try to gain some real influence over him.
Give yourself a chance to label the problem simply as a tactic by the other partner, usually to gain some control or influence over the situation.
