Sentence examples for obtaining influence. from inspiring English sources

He rose to pre-eminence in the family in part by obtaining influence over the Libyan government's investment fund, Western businessmen who worked with him say.

The proposed method is based on the Müller-Breslau principle and the basic idea is to equate discontinuous displacement fields with consistent nodal forces, thus obtaining influence functions only applying a single load case without changing the geometry or boundary conditions of the finite element model.

Unit cell problem must be solved first for obtaining influence functions whose calculational accuracy depends largely on the boundary conditions of the unit cell problem; and homogenized problem must be solved for obtaining homogenized displacement derivatives whose accuracy depends largely on the order of used finite elements and meshes.

Instead, I show that the prevalence of corruption hinders the ability of business associations to obtain influence over government agencies.

He says Labour should "rein in some of the people who have been using personal wealth to obtain influence in the Labour party".

We will describe a calculation algorithm that helps obtain influence coefficients solely from the assembly's geometric definition.

A smart woman who had been obliged to be someone's idea of a wife, she had been at that table with the dumb little dictator: "The most insignificant of men, the man who can obtain influence or consideration nowhere else, finds one place where he is chief and head.

About 1646 she fell in love with the Duke de la Rochefoucauld, the author of the Maximes, who made use of her love to obtain influence over her brother and thus win honours for himself.

Subsequently structural reaction time histories at several connections within the building were generated using a 1 50 scale wind tunnel model of the structure and the peak structural reactions determined using the DAD method and previously obtained influence functions.

Further, based on the experimental observations and quantitative data obtained, influence of various experimental parameters on the self-leveling, including gas flow rate, water depth, particle size, particle density as well as boiling mode is checked and compared.

Founded in 1912, it grew rapidly and became the world's largest cement and buildings materials group under the leadership of the Schmidheiny family that had obtained influence over the group via a series of asset-for-share swaps.