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.
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.
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.
They continued to use gifts to obtain influence, but they left behind the social context that had structured and guided the practice.
Tang et al. apply factor graph analysis to obtain influence probabilities on edges from node topic distributions and the network structure [14].
