Sentence examples for improper influence on from inspiring English sources

He denies, however, that there was any improper influence on the FSA decision.

Mr. McCain has used the Paxson corporate jet for political travel, but he denies exerting improper influence on the company's behalf.

The Foreign Affairs Committee had just issued a report concluding that "ministers did not mislead Parliament" in publishing the September dossier, and that Alastair Campbell did not "exert or seek to exert improper influence" on the dossier.

The rationale for Mr Blair's trust, approved in advance by Sir Gordon Downey, the par liamentary commissioner, was to pre-empt accusations of improper influence on the party leader.

Focusing on pitch counts, the union's letter said, "interferes with an umpire's duty to exercise independent judgment on each pitch," adding "pitch-count pressure threatens the integrity of the game, in that it brings on to the playing field improper influence on umpire performance".

Fallen Icelandic retail tycoon Jon Asgeir Johannesson, once one of the most powerful tycoons on the UK high street, has been charged in Reykjavik with criminal offences relating to allegations he exerted improper influence on the failed Icelandic bank that financed much of his business empire.

Richardson went on to accuse committee members of "prejudgment and improper influence of witnesses," which "clearly influenced subsequent staff testimony".

Furthermore, allegations that Morales used improper influence to favor a Chinese construction company damaged his standing.

2012, the year Blagojevich heads to prison, should be the year when we take money (and improper influence) out of judicial elections.

And as a check on improper influence, Mr. Khuzami will face a one-year "cooling off" period during which he cannot have any contact with the S.E.C.

A small consolation for the S.E.C. was Mr. Kotz's conclusion that there had been no improper influence by Mr. Madoff on agency investigators or officials.