Sentence examples for lost his influence from inspiring English sources

Mr. Jia and Mr. Li might well have been pushed into retirement if Mr. Jiang had lost his influence, party officials said.

Seneca was forced to commit suicide after apparently conspiring to assassinate Nero, and Burrus was poisoned after he lost his influence over the ruler who is best known for having most of his family killed, persecuting Christians and "fiddling while Rome burned" in a fire many Romans believed he started.

By reason of his continued and automatic opposition to any official opposition to Soviet expansion, Kennan eventually lost his influence and ability to guide U.S. policy or to achieve his goals.

However, Maximilian failed to pay the promised compensation, and thereby lost his influence on Baltic affairs.

Texas no longer believes in its own miracle, and the architect of this mess has lost his influence.

If Crash, Coco or Crunch win the race, Velo, having lost his influence over his subjects, dejectedly relinquishes his empire to the Bandicoots.

After losing his influence in the Kremlin, Boris Berezovsky, the tycoon, has now also been stripped of some of the trappings of grandeur -- a spacious government country house and government plates on his limo.

Several Afghan and foreign officials also refer to Mr Karzai as "weak" or losing his influence.

But some felt that in going public the general lost his backroom influence with the government.

By the time of his death, Francisco de Lima, a senator in his own right, had long since lost his former influence and had not held any office of importance for years.

Although the Duke lost his political influence in the latter stages of the war he still possessed vast prestige abroad, yet his failure to communicate his innermost convictions to his allies or political masters means he must bear some responsibility for the continuance of the war beyond its logical conclusion.