Sentence examples for influence last from inspiring English sources

Dwight Gooden, the Yankee adviser who was charged with driving under the influence last month, has attempted to contact Steinbrenner.

Mr. Ross demonstrated his growing influence last October, when the administration was pressing Mr. Netanyahu to agree to a three-month extension of his moratorium on settlement construction.

This was a full retreat from his earlier threats, which now look like electioneering tactics designed to influence last night's vote.

Sharing the surname but not the legal immunity of China's first recorded drink-driver, Sun Weiming, a 30-year-old executive, was heavily under the influence last December when he killed four people in a crash in the province of Sichuan.

As if that's not enough industry influence, last month, Wu went in with billionaire VC Peter Thiel to co-invest in Hong Kong-based Block.One, which raised $4 billion in the world's biggest initial coin offering led by Brendan Blumer and Dan Larimer.

Further forward Cesc Fabregas looks a shadow of the figure of such influence last season while striker Diego Costa, the merchant of menace who provided physical presence as well as goals last season, is waging his usual wars on opponents but not much else.

Special interests may have spent $1.8 billion on influence last year, but opportunities dwindle when no lawmakers are around.

Those issues have landed Facebook in front of lawmakers, who have grilled the company about its influence last year.

It's taken five months for the social care sector to recover and regroup having given its best shot to try to influence last autumn's government spending review.

But she has seen some evidence of its influence: Last year, a foreign investor entered negotiations to buy 17 units but backed out.

"I think it's waning now," Scott Reed, a veteran strategist and lobbyist, told me when we talked about the Tea Party's influence last month.