A powerful speaker with a high degree of influence over the audience.
"It would be deeply perturbing to find that a paper as eminent as the Times could allow a small NGO, particularly one whose sources of financing are unknown, a high degree of influence," says the letter to Witherow.
Diplomats say corporations and businessmen from France, which retains an unusually high degree of influence here, even by the standards of its former colonies, have also done well by Gabon's oil-based economy.
The results show that particular enablers (Internet marketing, the establishment of sales locations and planning for travel information services) have a high degree of influence and exhibit low dependence.
Despite their different styles, the three men shared a high degree of influence, a result partly of being in the nation's cultural and communications center, and partly of being cardinals, which carries a status beyond simply having the right to vote for the next pope.
Mikhail Nikiforovich Katkov, (born Nov. 13 [Nov. 1, Old Style], 1818, Moscow died Aug. 1 [July 20], 1887, Znamenskoye, near Moscow), Russian journalist who exercised a high degree of influence in government circles during the reigns of Alexander II (reigned 1855 81) and Alexander III (reigned 1881 94).
Determining the celebrities who exert the highest degree of influence in contemporary African pop culture involved sifting through the nominations for the individuals with the highest numbers of votes, and then measuring their media visibility (exposure in print, television, radio and online), number of web references on Google, TV/radio mentions and their general clout across the continent.
Schizophrenia is a complex mental disorder with high degree of genetic influence in its etiology.
The social psychologist Bibb Latané argues that norms are more readily transmitted when the person modelling them has a high degree of personal influence and is physically close by the person absorbing them; a student, for example, is more likely to be affected by her professor than by a fellow-student or a professor at another school.
Four countries showed a high degree of foreign/multinational influence (Bangladesh, Namibia, Ecuador and Nicaragua).
Furthermore, there is evidence of a high degree of foreign influence on funding decisions in 6 out of 12 countries(Bangladesh, Mauritius, Namibia, Uganda, Ecuador and Nicaragua) (Indicator 19).
