Sentence examples for influencing defence from inspiring English sources

They showed that some of the businessmen who were funding Werritty's trips abroad had an interest in influencing defence policy.

Differences between adult plants and seedlings could be caused by Pst inoculum levels, or reflect physiological differences influencing defence, considering some types of resistance cannot be detected until later developmental stages [ 25].

These results indicate that short-term space flights of 9 and 16 days have no effects on the immune system of the swordtails, whereas specific environmental conditions such as those found in the C.E.B.A.S. module during the experiments have the potential to influence defence parameters.

Prokineticins might thus influence tumour growth either by induction of angiogenesis or by influencing host defence.

He took $2.4m in bribes for trying to influence lucrative defence deals.

The official inquiry being conducted by the cabinet secretary, Sir Gus O'Donnell, will now not be completed until next week, meaning the Whitehall investigation into Werritty's finances, and his influence over defence policy, will have taken more than a week.

ABA has been shown to influence plant defence reactions in various ways [ 66].

The CFR protagonists are positioned at the river reach level, since they focus on ecological processes such as vegetation succession and pattern development (vegetation mosaic) along the river, and on the geomorphological processes of erosion and sedimentation as well as on the hydraulic processes that influence flood defence levels.

The high court ruled that changes to legal aid last April to save money could not stand because of the "unlawful" influence of the defence secretary, Bob Ainsworth.

But they also admit that co-operation between Israeli and Palestinian security services in the aftermath of the attack has been satisfactory.This unwontedly conciliatory Israeli tone reflects the moderating influence of the defence minister, Yitzhak Mordechai.

His presence was always a reassuring influence over his defence, he figured in three World Cups, and it could be argued that, even though he was by then 40, the Hungarians could have done worse than bring him to England for the 1966 tournament, in which goalkeeping weaknesses prevented an otherwise gifted and exciting side from going beyond the quarter finals.