Sentence examples for influence threatening from inspiring English sources

The Freedom Caucus was making its first play for influence, threatening to hold up funding for the Department of Homeland Security unless Obama's immigration measures were defunded.

It emerged on Monday that the government faces the prospect of a second legal challenge to its Brexit plans, with the group British Influence threatening a judicial review over whether leaving the EU means Britain must also automatically leave the European Economic Area and hence lose the free trading benefits of the single market.

The near collapse of our banking system is only the most visible example of how such influence threatens our economic security and our democracy.

Now the Obama administration has to deal with another, albeit unexpected, Bush legacy in the Middle East: a powerful Iran whose ambitions and influence threaten the current regional status quo.

Royal nominations to bishoprics and abbeys agreed to by representatives of the respective diocese had constituted an important part of royal authority at the time, and Gregory's insistence on the elimination of secular influence threatened the very existence of the kingdoms.

Although I recognize how outside influences threaten and change cultures, my mentors in Kenya have left me equally as wary of patterns of paternalism.

They see China's economic influence as threatening that position when, really, they should see it as something with which to collaborate and increase the wealth of America as China increases the wealth also of China.

On top of a would-be Republican's management of the wars and the war on terrorism, a Republican president's domestic and fiscal policies would be guided by the tea party and Fox News' influence, seriously threatening our economic and climatological progress; jeopardizing the reproductive rights of women; and further deregulating the corporations that caused the Great Recession.

Dieticians in Sweden successfully ran an overt campaign to market their professional interests vis-à-vis medical and nursing colleagues and, although they occupied a modest place in the clinical pecking order, increased their visibility and influence without threatening those other groups[ 14].

But those who enforce these rules have made it clear to the court that an underworld influence still threatens cricket.

He wants to preserve the good things about a legacy that liberation's normalizing influence could threaten.