Rupert Murdoch is even, according to Wolff, "almost a liberal", influenced partly by his family.
First elected as a member of Liverpool city council in 1968, he was the dominant Liberal influence in the city for decades.
Yet, in such cases, conservatives' fears about the liberal influence of foreign law on Kennedy's views could turn out to be misplaced.
One last point against her: she's ten years older than Ms Kagan, which could mean ten fewer years of liberal influence on the court.
Mr. Fritschler said that perhaps the most insidious side effect of assumptions about liberal influence has been an overall disengagement on campus from civic and political affairs, and a reluctance to promote serious debate of political issues.
Just evident in Gardner's book is the liberal influence of two Lebanese writers of Christian origin, the late Albert Hourani and Amin Maalouf, and also, no doubt, of his wife, the Reuters journalist Samia Nakhoul.
WASHINGTON — As the House moved toward a vote last week on a bipartisan budget plan modeled on the deficit reduction blueprint of a White House commission, Washington's conservative and liberal influence machines swung into action.
Although the institute has an annual budget of just less than $1 million and a staff of fewer than a dozen, liberals and conservatives alike say it is having an outsized effect on the dynamics of American politics by counteracting the liberal influence of the mainline Protestant churches.
Nonetheless, in the early chapters of his book, Louvish deals with the liberal influence on Cecil and his brother, William, exerted by the writings of Charles Kingsley, a "Protestant controversialist" who was "a clergyman and a champion of England's poor and working people".
Under Haider's leadership, the FPÖ increased its vote to 9.7%, while the party gradually became more right-wing and its former liberal influence waned.
