That feeling of being able to have a positive influence on someone's life is one of the reasons we do it.
Offhandedly stylish, he had been recruited to exert an encouraging influence on someone who was not born to shop.
Federal law does not allow use of campaign funds for personal expenses, to protect against contributors such as defense contractors from having undue influence on someone like Hunter, who is on the House Armed Services Committee.
What makes good writing for college application essays: your own voice, a more informal style than an academic paper, specificity, detail, and making sure that you're writing about yourself - not the influence of someone else on you, but how you have moved through your life and gained insight, confidence, a sense of accomplishment - or a passion that won't quit.
Therefore it holds that art can have a negative influence on people – if someone a bit thick listens to White Power by Skrewdriver and goes, oh, right, the bloke singing has got a point, then I think you could say it's bad for them.
What's more, Olson found that things like personality type didn't seem to have much influence on how likely someone was to be influenced – we all seem equally vulnerable.
"I won't deny that it has an influence on me, coming from someone of his stature who hopefully will be my next speaker," he said.
Something just struck me funny, the idea of me being a holy influence on the child of someone I used to act like such a loser in front of".
Other mental illnesses, psychological conditions or learning difficulties can have an influence on whether or not someone will engage in a sexual relation with a child (Bickley and Beech 2001, Howitt 1995).
[Qualitative interview, Male Sports Teacher, 44 years] A potentially important influence on whether or not someone is physically active is the perceived impact of that activity on their health.
Those results account for any other factors that might influence how someone performed on the test, like age, gender, educational status, physical activity level, perceived stress, sleep duration and cumulative sleep disturbance score.
