Sentence examples for to extend the influence from inspiring English sources

"We want to extend the influence of Fairtrade.

The papacy increasingly reached out beyond Italy in its effort to extend the influence of the reform movement.

The Afghan government has already begun to work with local and provincial elected officials to extend the influence of the central government in the region, improve public services and gain the support of residents.

"Instead, the government has confirmed in the last few days, for example, that it wants to extend the influence of the private sector in our prison system by shamefully allowing them to make massive profits out of locking people up".

To Cajal, it was the pyramidal cell that was at the heart of the circuitry leading from input to output in the cortex, although he recognized that axons ascending vertically from layer IV cells could help to extend the influence of thalamic inputs to other pyramidal cells as well.

He later helped to extend the German sphere of influence and established the German East Africa Company, which obtained an imperial charter in 1885.

Do you have any idea how much influence your company commands today, and what is your business doing to extend that influence to the bottom line?

Lord Mornington, the ambitious Governor-General of British India, seized on the opportunity to extend Company influence into the Maratha Empire which he perceived as the final obstacle to British paramountcy over the Indian subcontinent.

Tehran in particular, he continued, is likely to try and take the opportunity to extend its influence in the region.

The tribe has been resisting attempts by the Lashkar-e-Islam militant group to extend its influence to the Tirah area, the BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad reports.

In the 1990s, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya, who saw the body as a way to extend his influence on the continent, bankrolled its reorganization as the African Union.