In Raul Meireles and Fábio Coentrão they also had players prepared to impose their influence on the game.
With no government able to impose its influence for 20 years, the country's infrastructure has rotted away, and development assistance has been minimal compared with that to other countries.
Faced with what he called Chinese efforts to impose its influence and different political values, he said Australia will have to do more to defend itself, including perhaps even one day acquiring nuclear weapons.
General Than Shwe gave a taste of his worldview at a national day celebration in March in which he said, "Judging from lessons of history, it is certain that powerful countries wishing to impose their influence on our nation will make any attempt in various ways to undermine national unity".
There was no direct reference to the pact during the meeting between Mr. Ahmadinejad and Mr. Maliki, but the ISNA news agency quoted Mr. Ahmadinejad as saying, "Iraq must reach a certain level of stability so that its enemies are not able to impose their influence".
The SNP's chief spokesman confirmed that Salmond's proposal was part of the party's strategy to impose its influence after the election, and was an extension of Nicola Sturgeon's view that Cameron could be "locked out of Downing Street" by a large enough group of anti-Tory MPs.
But many Arab analysts and diplomats say that security against the nuclear risk may come at the cost of worsening ongoing conflicts around the Middle East as Saudi Arabia and its Sunni Muslim allies push back against what they see as efforts by Shiite-led Iran to impose its influence — often on sectarian battle lines.
KW: I'd expect a bit more open style of rugby with three new coaches [England, France and Italy] trying to impose their influence on their respective countries.
In addition to individual university action, it is likely necessary for a larger global university consortium, for example the International Association of Universities (IAU) in Paris, to take action against the CSSA, and any other student organizations through which autocratic states seek to impose illiberal influence.
Third, mHemi-SNPs, Pseudo-simple SNPs, and the unauthentic DH lines may impose influences jointly.
FMRI signal, however, is comprised of several noise components that arise from respiration, cardiac pulsatility, and machine noise, differentially affect different voxels, and impose influences upon the signal arising from neural activity.
