Sentence examples for strategic influence from inspiring English sources

He should really be thinking about the strategic influence he can have.

With economic might comes strategic influence, evident in China's increasingly active role in Africa and Latin America.

They said the enlarged group would have "significantly more strategic influence over the pace and direction of oil and gas development in the North Falkland Basin than they would have as two stand-alone entities".

The document said one goal was to establish a "road map for creating an effective D.O.D. capability to design and conduct effective strategic influence and operational and tactical perception-management campaigns".

An increasing number of senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards have also been killed in Syria in recent weeks, which shows how far Iran is prepared to go to keep its strategic influence in the country.

As one astute political observer has stated "We have lost all strategic influence with the GoI and trying to influence events and people from the tactical/operational level is courting disaster, wasting lives, and merely postponing the inevitable".

As the Arab Spring has transformed the region, the Iranians and the Saudis are engaged in a none-too-subtle battle for geo-strategic influence.

Pakistan's location gives it an extremely high level of geo-strategic influence, so it's important to pay attention to it.

This alliance is now being given a new varnish as part of the modern Silk Road network aimed at extending China's economic-strategic influence to the Indian Ocean region.

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld disbanded the Pentagon's Office of Strategic Influence today, ending a short-lived plan to provide news items, possibly even false ones, to unwitting foreign journalists to influence public sentiment abroad.

WHEN Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld announced last week that the Pentagon's new Office of Strategic influence would be disbanded after reports that it might plant false news items to influence foreign opinion, he said flatly: "The office is done".