Sentence examples for influencing matters from inspiring English sources

Science-fiction giant Robert Heinlein might have been an expert at predicting the future when it came to waterbeds and presidents' wives influencing matters of state via the medium of astrology, but some of his ideas about the genre he wrote in haven't stood the test of time.

For example, legal adoption ensures that a child will have access to health insurance benefits from both parents and to Social Security survivor benefits should either parent die, and that a continuing legal relationship with both parents will exist even if the parents separate, influencing matters like custody, visiting rights and child support.

In practice, most of his exercises involve bending metal rods, but in his autobiography, Influencing Matter, he wrote that psychokinesis can potentially "destroy a cruise missile in flight or cause arrhythmias from a distance".

The real tragedy is the Conservatives have marginalised Britain just when influence matters most.

But just this marionette had to act in such a way that he could influence matters from his laughable position".

This desire to influence matters from the heart of the action made Touré's time on the bench far from easy.

David Addington is a satisfactory lawyer, Fein said, but a less than satisfactory student of American history, which, for a public servant of his influence, matters more.

Nacer Chadli twice finished adroitly and Eric Dier's deflected goal at least demonstrated a desire to influence matters from centre-back.

"Sorcery is the ability to influence matters that affect people's lives through the use of spirits," said Abdulaziz AlGasim, a retired Saudi judge.

However, why anyone would have wanted to a kill a 75-year-old man in decline, with little opportunity to influence matters, is as much a point of debate as that of who might have been behind it.

Not, perfectly understandably, the driving force of old and not able to influence matters from his midfield anchor position.