Sentence examples for gaining influence over from inspiring English sources

Both progressed from being news producers to news division presidents and network presidents, then to gaining influence over entirely different media industries.

It wanted to stop Russia and others from gaining influence over Islam that could be used to inflame Muslims in British possessions from Egypt to India.

But, also like Britain, it has an interest in gaining influence over trends in its neighbourhood, lest they become harmful to it.

At the time, recognition was considered a way of gaining influence over the unruly militia that had seemingly emerged from nowhere and appeared to be on the way to creating Afghanistan's first stable government in years.

Officials said it was a sign of his adroit political skill that he was able to issue what appeared to be dissenting opinions as concurrences, thus gaining influence over the final product.

If this sounds inscrutable as musical technique, that's because it is lifted from a self-help book about gaining influence over others called "The 48 Laws of Power," by Robert Greene.

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

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

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

But Baghdadi sought to gain influence over the increasingly powerful Jabhat al-Nusra by directly expanding ISI's operations into Syria, forming Isis in April last year.

In spite of these scores, it is still possible that power-hungry Hungarian politicians would want to gain influence over the media.