Sentence examples for secure the influence from inspiring English sources

In an effort to buy the island of Cuba from Spain, he ordered the U.S. minister to Spain, Pierre Soulé, to try to secure the influence of European financiers on the Spanish government.

The Prague commitments are, according to some, a last chance for many Europeans to prove their military seriousness and secure the concomitant influence in Washington.

This facilitated plans "to capture and use the church organization for their own purposes" and "to secure the elimination of Christian influences in the Evangelical Church by legal or quasi legal means".

Fox had no time for ministerial self-indulgence and used his influence to secure the resignation of David Mellor.

So what should be done to make government more responsive to parliament so that elected MPs can have more influence to secure the decisions that the electorate wants?

It soon became clear that, from having been seen as a French puppet, Bongo had in fact built a powerful network of allies in all parties in Paris, and was able to use his influence to secure the removal of unwelcomingly reforming ministers, both under Mitterrand in 1983 and Sarkozy in 2008.

Hopkins used his influence to secure the position of commander in chief of the new navy for his brother Esek Hopkins, an appointment that proved to be unfortunate.

The charges were dismissed for lack of evidence, and there is speculation that since one of the accused, Lionardo de Tornabuoni, was related to Lorenzo de' Medici, the family exerted its influence to secure the dismissal.

He also urged the government of South Sudan to use whatever influence it had to secure the children's release.

The most significant step which Iran could take, we indicated, would be to use its influence in Lebanon to secure the release of all hostages held there".

Veitch also urged the Government of South Sudan to use whatever influence it had to secure the children's release.