Sentence examples for garnering influence from inspiring English sources

Russia was back in the great game, garnering influence and a chance to dominate oil and gas extraction in the region because all roads there -- especially pipeline routes -- lead to Russia.

At an opening banquet, Satya Nadella, Microsoft's chief executive, and Bill Gates sat on either side of Mr. Xi's top aide, Li Zhanshu, a positioning probably more favorable for garnering influence than sitting next to Mr. Xi himself.

No longer will lobbyists be able to bundle unlimited amounts of contributions from people and drop those funds on a candidate as a way of showing political muscle or garnering influence, efforts that jump lobbyists and special interests ahead of the ordinary D.C. resident.

But they also rose to the top by garnering influence.

Some two millennia on, a new kind of undercover writing is rapidly garnering influence on the internet.

Trump's new D.C. hotel has become a magnet for foreign officials seeking to garner influence, as The Post reported.

Nor does the possibility that an individual who spends large sums may garner "influence over or access to" elected officials or political parties.

That has left China with little choice but to garner influence through a strategy that has worked well in Africa and Latin America: investing and joining with local companies and financing good works to earn good will.

"The possibility that an individual who spends large sums may garner influence over or access to elected officials" is not evidence of bribery or corruption, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said two years ago in striking down the limits on how much in total a single donor may give to a field of candidates.

Once peripheral, it has veered close to mainstream, garnering unprecedented influence.

For while it has aggregated power, it has failed to garner the influence to sustain or justify it.