Sentence examples for maintain influence on from inspiring English sources

Last month, the nonpartisan group convened the first of these meetings at its office here, and sources present described the discussion as one on how to maintain influence on Capitol Hill in an environment where lawmakers seldom even debate legislation, let alone pass it.

It is Mr. Grassley who wants to change the size of the court, by eliminating the three seats for which the president has just made nominations, so Republican-appointed judges can maintain influence on a court that often rules on important regulatory and governmental issues.

Arrangements for access to M&E data post-transition should be ideally negotiated and agreed to during the pre-transition period, while the donor maintains influence on programming.

On the other hand, both Akhmetov and Firtash maintain influence within the Opposition Bloc, thus ensuring that political change may be slow in coming.

The Catholic diocese, which maintains influence over many immigrant populations, holds Masses each year on Columbus Day in the explorer's honor.

Syrian-Lebanese relations are particularly fraught because France tore away the Mount Lebanon region from Syria as late as the 1920s and created the protectorate of Lebanon to maintain French influence on the Levantine coast.

British commander Edward Marcus Despard used Roatán as a base for guerilla-style operations to extend and maintain British influence on the Mosquito Coast, and for privateering operations against Spanish shipping.

In the 70 years since its publication it has been too rarely read, or even known, though it has maintained an influence on writers and poets working in its wake.

Nara et al. (2011) found that samples with low aspect ratio microfractures maintained their influence on permeability even at the highest confining pressure (90 MPa).

These have maintained an influence on slope distributions, and are thus fundamental factors controlling the gross patterns of denudation throughout the early stages of orogenesis.

However, in vivo, cells and organism maintain a bidirectional, interactive influence on one another [ 143].