Sentence examples for wield great influence from inspiring English sources

In Britain, newspaper owners still wield great influence.

A third is that democratic control is exerted through governments that still wield great influence in Brussels.

Stop the presses: Mr. Young found that publicists wield great influence in the world of marketable glamour.

Though foreign satellite channels can be viewed in Syria, the state media still wield great influence with supporters of President Bashar al-Assad.

In 1798 Godoy was removed from office, though in temporary retirement he continued to enjoy royal favour and wield great influence.

The IOC's (unpaid) members are not elected, but co-opted by "friends" already on the committee during a murky process in which senior members wield great influence.

In Africa, chaotic and corrupt, where proximity to power is paramount, first ladies can wield greater influence than any minister.

Since that date, Europe's revitalized telecommunications regulator has enjoyed, theoretically at least, the ability to wield greater influence in national markets.

She expressed concern, however, that the government's decision reflected the beginning of a trend in which the church and conservative lawmakers would seek to wield greater influence over public policy on moral grounds.

Iraq's two main Kurdish political parties agreed this week to try to put their rancorous past behind them and merge their local administrations in a bid to wield greater influence in Iraq's national politics.

Keynes declined the invitation as he felt he would wield greater influence on events if he remained a free agent.