This, of course, was the point: not merely to influence events but to be seen as influencing them.
"The Fed will not want to be seen as influencing political outcomes," said Rick Rieder, chief investment officer for global fixed-income at BlackRock.
But the Democratic National Convention begins on July 25 in Philadelphia, and F.B.I. officials did not want to be seen as influencing the outcome of the election after the nomination.
The rule is meant to minimize potential conflicts of interest; once over the wall, analysts would have access to nonpublic information that could be seen as influencing their ratings.
Since it can be imagined that anybody one day "will" break the law, and since all political opposition can be seen as "influencing" one policy or another-in fact, opposition can thwart a policy altogether-these guidelines would seem to permit any investigation whatever.
In an interview with National Public Radio in March Mr. Perry addressed the skepticism that greeted his decision to tackle Ms. Shange's play, which has become a staple in college feminist studies courses and is widely seen as influencing a generation of spoken-word poets and performance artists.
"Overall, this is a business-friendly initiative," says Jim Lewis, who headed the Center for Strategic and International Study's Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th presidency, a group that authored a report widely seen as influencing the president's outlook.
Obama will have to tread carefully if he doesn't want to alienate Harper by being seen as influencing Canadian politics.
Instead, sluggish economic growth in the first half of 2016, stubbornly low inflation and perhaps the specter of being seen as influencing the November election, prompted the Fed to wait an entire year before raising the rate again. .
All of these elements, including the close harmonies of doo wop and girl groups, the carefully crafted song-writing of the Brill Building Sound and the polished production values of soul, have been seen as influencing the Merseybeat sound, particularly the early work of The Beatles, and through them the form of later rock music.
