In the 21st Century, we can now clearly see a new paradigm of a world characterized by human networks that can swell swiftly to upend governments or fund game-changing products; an unbounded start-it-yourself and share-it-with-others ethos; and, heightened influence of lone individuals, ephemeral crowds, and enduring social networks.
"We're paying no penalty at all for the increase in government spending," Marston notes, arguing that other factors are offsetting the interest-heightening influence of debt.
By moving up the date for their primary, Washington State Democrats hoped to heighten their influence in the selection of a presidential nominee, while getting candidates to pay more attention to the state.
Minendra Rijal, a member of the special committee negotiating the fate of the two armies, accused the Maoists of stalling military integration to heighten their influence in the constitutional negotiations.
The voluntary nature of injury surveillance within community sport heightens the influence of an intrinsic belief in the importance of the practice.
Despite the heightened anthropogenic influence of the rainy season, values of both metals in the sediments were much lower than their average values in the Earth's crust throughout the sampling period.
Mr. Bengt's Wife, in contrast, is a delirious collection of scenes boasting a lyricism approaching madness, with a heightened Shakespearian influence running through its modern language.
"Was the decision to target any tax-exempt applications for review and subject them to full development or heightened scrutiny influenced or prompted in any way by political pressure directed at the I.R.S. from any members of the Congress or other elected officials?" it asked.
In recent years Moscow policy-makers have cottoned on to a heightening of Chinese influence in the country.
As the clash between Netanyahu and Obama on the Iranian issue heightened, Israel's influence on the course of the negotiations and its outcome lessened.
This vast increase in signal propagation can be interpreted as a heightened top-down influence enforced on the attentional and perceptual systems.
