Sentence examples for game of influences from inspiring English sources

The composer and critic Virgil Thomson routinely debunked what he called the "game of influences," which he considered "about as profitable a study as who caught cold from whom when they were standing in the same draft".

There is a deep and long game of influence being played here.

But in general the game of influence in Brussels these days depends less than it used to on Britain (or France).

In the not too distant future, Sri Lanka may be seen as an early skirmish in a new "Great Game" of influence between China and the United States and their proxies.

In a bold speech in Benin earlier this year he declared that it was time to stop looking at the foreign presence in Africa as a zero-sum game of influence.

Being so influenced himself, the grand game of influence has become his central preoccupation, both as a producer (he used his Rolling Thunder label in the 90s to patronise Takeshi Kitano and Wong Kandwai, and last bestowed the "Quentin Tarantino presents" kitemark on RZA's The Man With the Iron Fists, and in terms of his legacy as an artist.

When elections are a game of influence, politics will revolve around money.

When voters are ignorant, elections will inevitably be a game of influence.

Al-Monitor's examination of their spending shows that between them, these governments are almost uniformly increasing their stakes in the game of influencing U.S. policy.

5000 at the Parliament, and another 20,000 lobbyists, all locked into this game of influence, these tightly wound spheres of personal power and horse-trading.

The great irony is that the man who made his fortune playing the game of influence-peddling and celebrity-mongering forgot that the other players get a turn.