Sentence examples for improving influence from inspiring English sources

She cites as an example of philosophy's improving influence the 16th-century philosopher Jean Bodin, who argued against slavery as far back as 1576.

But his double act with Mr Osborne may have an improving influence on Britain's social cohesion and ultimately its credit rating, as well as on the Tories' rating in opinion polls.Alone, Mr Osborne and the Tories would have boasted only a thin mandate to make what will necessarily be the sharpest spending cuts in recent history.

The idea, hitherto untested on voters, is to show that the Lib Dems are less a makeweight, in the event that the bigger parties fail to get a majority, than an improving influence on them both with the power to offset Tory austerity with care for the needy and Labour profligacy with a tight fiscal grip.

The results show that the improving influence of raw SF on the macro properties of concrete and hydration degree of hardened paste are more obvious than that of densified SF.

An improved influence function method has been developed to take the advantage of its fundamentally sound nature and flexibility.

Partnerships could be strengthened and supported between NGOs and social science researchers in resource-poor countries to improve influence potential, as the social sector issues that tend to be most relevant to human populations are also of utmost importance to NGOs.

But the key to improving their influence over policy will be an honest acceptance of how that influence actually works: through pressure politics, not through anyone mandating anyone else to do anything.

Corporate sponsors like BP, Boeing and Bank of America will no doubt view the program as a way to improve their influence on the mainland.

The London-based charity is after someone with good knowledge of current changes taking place in health policy to improve and influence the care of patients with heart disease.

But it also recommended a number of measures to improve the influence of supporters, including the creation of a government expert group to look at practical ways of helping fans buy a stake in clubs.

"The UK will greatly improve its influence if we and our European partners speak and act in concert".This is attractive, not least because pooling resources, and having countries specialise in different military tasks, could offer big savings.