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The SNP will work to represent the interests of the whole of the UK rather than just Scotland if it wields influence after the general election, Nicola Sturgeon has said.
But if it makes gains it could wield influence in a hung parliament.
So Iran wields influence in Iraqi politics, it is true.
Though the military still wields influence through business interests and a security role, it is out of frontline politics.
The extent to which the financial industry still wields influence is jarring.
Ultimately, Tehran has managed to leverage its position to the point where it could wield influence across the Shiite/Sunni divide by championing, indeed provoking, the largely Sunni Hamas movement in Gaza against Israel.
The Politico's Jeanne Cummings examines what the "sisterhood" means for Senator Clinton and how it could wield influence going forward.
Once a colonial power in Africa, France still clings to the idea that it can wield influence in the region, and Zimbabwe remains an important African state.
Agranovich told me that, as he sees it, those wielding influence in the Kremlin today "don't understand why they need a place like this, what is the benefit for them".
When trying to gain some control over the hidden hand of a complex as it wields its influence over an individual's life, for example, psychologists will first acknowledge its power, and then seek to trace its roots in a person's history.
