Should the size of an institution or its systemic importance influence the decision of prosecutors?
A spokeswoman for Mr. Pataki said he was not trying to influence the decision of the United States attorney's office.
A good life and a humane death: these considerations of provenance influence the decision of which animals' flesh to buy, but the charge of hypocrisy hangs over them.
Aasheim said the passage of the concealed-carry bill did not influence the decision of the wildlife agency to introduce its bill.
Speaker J. Dennis Hastert called Mr. DeLay "a good man" and said he was "troubled by the intimidation tactics of outside groups and organizations who have tried to influence the decision of those upstanding members of the Ethics Committee".
After barmy refereeing helped the hosts scrape past Senegal in the semi-finals, the Ivorians called for the final to be officiated by a man of impeccable repute - so why the nod was given to an official who was suspended two years ago for trying to influence the decision of another referee is a riddle to outfox any sphinx.
The odds that the H.R.C.'s campaign, as wildly successful as it has been, will directly influence the decision of the Justices are nil, which speaks quite loudly to the limits of online activism: twenty million avatars are not twenty million people in the street.
This might influence the decision of the surgeon between conservative and surgical treatment of aneurysms.
In price-taker mechanism, fluctuating power price may influence the decision of decentralized entities, causing additional risk in daily operation.
Second, the status of the principals is flat; multiple principals have similar opportunities, weight, and ability to influence the decision of a sole agent.
Similarly, Siegmund-Shultze and Rischkowsky (2001) identified the socio-economic characteristics that influence the decision of households to take up livestock farming in West Africa.
