But really, they are just enriching themselves, and the drug companies retain influence over them to a remarkable extent".
The meetings, particularly with the Jordanians, were delicate — the King needed to show his subjects that he retained influence over the Temple Mount.
Test setters retain influence over what counts, and there is no adjusting for test-takers' inclination to apply themselves – or not.
Over the past two years, Pakistan has released a trickle of junior members, appearing to comply with Kabul's demands but retaining influence over more senior members.
But to critics, it amounts to a strategy for retaining influence over all classes of a society that is certainly not immune to the inroads of secularism.
Russia has pushed for the federalization of Ukraine, since that would allow Moscow to retain influence over areas in Ukraine dominated by Russian-speakers.
The official said that while Pakistan is tackling the Taliban in Pakistan, it still wanted to retain influence over the Taliban in Afghanistan as a counter to what it sees as growing Indian influence in Afghanistan.
The 2007 promise to restore trust in the office was betrayed by anaemic proposals last year which allowed the attorney to retain influence over any prosecution decreed to affect national security.
Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's former prime minister, was scrambling to retain influence over the fractured landscape of the country's centre-right on Saturday, after the man who was once considered his political heir broke with him in a damaging personal and political snub.
