Sentence examples for lose their influence from inspiring English sources

As Russia's most powerful businessmen gradually lose their influence over government in Moscow, some have moved into local politics.

Unlike the former Soviet Union, China has encouraged outspoken dissidents to go into exile, knowing that they would lose their influence inside China once they left.

Kalyvas reminded me, for example, that Europe's Christian Democratic Parties were almost all theocratic and anti-democratic when they were founded, in the nineteenth century, and embraced democracy only because they realized that otherwise they would lose their influence.

The French know they have only one stage to play on, the Security Council, and if they fall into line behind the Americans, they lose their influence as leader of the countries opposed to U.S. pre-emption policy.

But he predicted the emergence of an insoluble question in the wake of devolution: Why should Scottish members of the British Parliament continue to have a say over English affairs while English MPs lose their influence over Scottish governance?

These countries have a strong interest in ensuring that, as the euro zone becomes more integrated, they do not lose their influence in debate or their part in decisions.

Even the black churches, the soul of the black community, have lost their influence.

Past intellectual vanguards such as the Conference of Socialist Economists persist to this day, but have lost their influence.

Old beliefs were losing their influence, and new ones were arising that were more responsive to America's revivalist spirit.

This is not to say that formal organizations, especially the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, have lost their influence or their followers.

Responsories (liturgical texts originally performed responsively) were of major importance until the great monastic institutions lost their influence in the early years of the 16th century.