Sentence examples for influence of secret from inspiring English sources

In fact there is a bill that Sen. Vitter could support, that would help reduce the influence of secret money in politics.

He likes to cite the example of the scene at the end of The Bourne Supremacy in which Bourne goes to see the daughter of two people he had killed while under the drugged-up influence of a secret US counter-intelligence mission.

Mr. Pascoal, blind since birth, who taught himself harmony by banging on different pieces of metal in his grandfather's blacksmith shop, has been a kind of secret influence on many jazz performers, from Miles Davis (with whom he played, on the album "Live Evil") to the pianist Jason Moran.

The charge of secret Iranian influence over the alliance, which is led by two huge Shiite religious parties, has been voiced by King Abdullah of Jordan and some prominent Sunni politicians.

But the influence of tradition can be secret and indirect.

Of course, the suspension of the programme was a perfect example of its content – the secret influence of masonry!

Watergate has confirmed the dangers of policies that exclude the public and welcome the secret influence of selfish interests.

A couple of years ago, he wrote an essay about the secret influence of nineteenth-century blackface minstrelsy on twentieth-century pop music.

It is one of the most flagrant spenders of secret political cash to influence campaigns.

But what is different this time around is the influence of the "deep state" ― the secret and semi-secret networks of military, security and intelligence forces that allegedly profess support for Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ― which is setting itself up to decide the future president of Iran.

The DC weakened somewhat owing to scandal involving alleged secret government influence of a Masonic lodge, and in 1981 the DC temporarily surrendered the premiership and presidency to its coalition partners.