Since in most ways the Earth is a closed system-a zero-sum planet in today's parlance-as terrestrial influence on the sea expands, the sea's influence on its own processes shrinks.
Erdogan's policies are neo-Ottoman in this way too: in decline, Ottoman state policy, the Sultan or the Sublime Porte in Western parlance, was open to the influence of the highest bidder outside or inside the country.
"What emerges now is what, in intelligence parlance, is called an 'agent of influence' owning the Post -- with a huge financial interest in playing nice with the CIA," said former CIA official Ray McGovern.
Science, the eight-month-old LA-based technology incubator / studio that brought us the Dollar Shave Club and most recently e-commerce site Uncovet, is making its first acquisition: it is buying Pinpuff, a fast-growing "Klout for Pinterest" that measures and tracks the influence of Pinterest users — "Pinfluence" in Pinpuff parlance — that was launched only in February of this year.
It is difficult to overstate the column's influence on American culture at midcentury and afterward: in popular parlance, Dear Abby was for decades an affectionate synonym for a trusted, if slightly campy, confidante.
(Note: In Italian political parlance, "institutional forces" can serve to mean one of many groups operating and wielding influence behind the scenes: business groups, intelligence services, freemasons, the Vatican, the magistracy, the United States, etc.
Curry laksa is hugely popular in Australia, especially Sydney, where the pan-Asian culinary influence has turned "let's go for a laksa" into common post-pub parlance.
In the parlance of the trade, it "monetises peer-2-many" recommendations and may well amplify social influence for brands.
In statistical parlance, independent events are drawn from the same statistical distribution, but the occurrence of one event does not influence the probability of occurrence of another event.
In Ntrepid's own parlance, they describe Tartan as a program that can "Analyze illicit organizations and less structured social networks by identifying: Ranks of influence within human networks… [and can] end the use of [online] aliases".
