The dynasty's founder, Li Yuan, claimed to be descended from Laozi; as his power increased, even the influential Maoshan Daoists came to accept him as the long-deferred fulfillment of messianic prophecy.
This estimate assumes that for each counted male, there was an uncounted female and assuming that no factors increasing the Ne are influential in the population.
Due to illness Belin had delegated much of his role to Berthelot, further increasing the power of his influential Third Bureau.
The sense of crisis surrounding Tyco increased as Fitch, the influential credit rating agency, downgraded the US conglomerate's debt to junk status.
His popularity increased when Marie Lloyd, the influential music hall singer and actress, said that she would only watch two acts: his and Dan Leno's.
ALBANY — Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan and New York State's bishops are calling on the Legislature to increase the minimum wage, adding an influential source of support to a proposal that has divided lawmakers along party lines.
Hamilton, who wrote perhaps 51 of the Federalist papers, became a leader of the Federalist Party and, as first secretary of the treasury (1789 95), wrote messages that were influential in increasing the power of national government at the expense of the state governments.
Parents and guardians can be influential in increasing the financial literacy levels of young Americans, just as financial institutions themselves can and should be further leveraged.
So, when TIME ignores all these influential women in favor of less influential men, it increases the disparity of how women are viewed in society because when they put something on the cover (and choose to ignore other subjects), people talk about it (or don't), regardless of its importance or accuracy.
It took them only five minutes to increase their lead, the influential Gidley putting Westerman through a hole in the Warriors defence, and four minutes later he repeated the feat to get second rower Ben Currie over.
