Scandalous accusations have been traded (of influence-peddling and connections with fraudsters) and hard words thrown (liar; two-faced).
This is particularly the case with European powers, which developed trading relationships and spheres of influence in Africa.
Mr. Severin said by telephone that he was innocent of trading influence, calling the charges "a fairy tale" and politically motivated.
And they would undoubtedly seek to extend their protection to their allies, or trade votes to protect their spheres of influence.
Firstly, economic and financial globalization has challenged national economies and their regulatory frameworks, within which trade unions have developed their positions of influence.
Trading margins influence the submission of limit orders, and hence the sustainability of futures trading and liquidity.
The geography of the tales encompasses a sphere of trade and influence stretching from Venice to Basra; a mermaid is wrapped in Venetian cloth, and heroes use the seal of "Solomon, son of David on whom peace be" to protect themselves from evil.
The hippies understood and could articulate the interplay of economics, free trade and the influence of natural resources as pawns of power in the game board of domination and control over strategic resources like oil, gas and precious metals like: chromium, titanium and platinum.
Younger and less tainted than Burnham, having never served in the Cabinet, his Blairite orthodoxies might be enough in a one person-one vote leadership election stripped of trade union influence.
From behind a small podium, his red tie a touch askance, he laments the decline of manufacturing in America, rails against free trade, decries the influence of corporate lobbyists on the tax code, complains that the president took donations from major corporations.
