Sentence examples for retain influence from inspiring English sources

But really, they are just enriching themselves, and the drug companies retain influence over them to a remarkable extent".

Europe uses trade to retain influence in Latin America, which Brussels feared would focus exclusively on Washington after Nafta.

Thus the question from a British perspective is how the UK can retain influence from the margins of Europe.

Staying in Europe means a gruelling struggle to retain influence in a club that increasingly revolves around the euro zone.

Some see the uncertainty as reflecting Mr. Hu's desire to retain influence for as long as possible.

But the Lib Dems have realised that, in some circumstances, they could retain influence even if they were to lose half their seats.

Cynics say this is merely a way for Firtash to buy friendship and retain influence amid the new government's stated policy of de-oligarchisation.

Some abuses are committed by men loyal to people who have been politically sidelined but retain influence through commanders loyal to them, the report said.

"Party élites retain influence in the Presidential nomination process," Karol says, but "that's a collective influence that the élite may be able to exercise; it's no one kingmaker".

Mr Uribe retains influence in Congress.

Russia retains influence as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.