Finally, one might also mention his acceptance of the principle of multiple votes, in which educated and more responsible persons would be made more influential by giving them more votes than the uneducated.
Rather than asking how research evidence can be made more influential, academics should aim to understand what influences and constitutes policy, and produce more critically and theoretically informed studies of decision-making.
Mr Porter's recent books are as chunky as his earlier ones: his 2006 tome on health-care reform might have been more influential had it made more concessions to the reader.
There were certainly chefs who were more influential than Mr. Tower, and restaurateurs who made more lasting contributions to American restaurants.
By targeting influential individuals, health interventions that harness the distributive properties of social networks could be made more effective and efficient than those that do not.
The technology of television has changed beyond recognition — thanks to streaming and smartphone cameras, it's now part of the Internet — but that has only made TV more influential.
In a tour in early May of Córdoba, a state in the north that is the traditional heart of the paramilitary movement, it was clear that contrary to the government's assertions, the paramilitaries enjoyed a lock-down control that made them more influential than the traditional enemies of the state, the left-wing guerrillas, ever were.
Brown, in an interview before the trip, said Steyer's wealth made him more influential than "if he was homeless down on Spring Street".
This included a best of 2/23 in the sixth match, but he made a more influential contribution in the first match with the bat, striking 49 at the death as India came within striking distance of their target before he fell in the last over and the hosts ended five runs adrift of the target.
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Mr Hatch's seniority would naturally make him more influential than a more hard-line freshman.In other words, the challenge to Mr Hatch is perhaps the clearest indication to date that the tea-party movement is animated by an oppositional spirit of partisanship rather more than policy concerns.
