His dash for power ended the next year, when negotiations for the purchase of the Atlantic Ocean broke down.

Influence and status.

Britain in the Wilderness

You, however, are blessed with the gift of influence.

Politicians gained influence and popular support by directing state owned banks to make loans to favored constituencies.

There were also influential entrepreneurs and business organizations that were actively involved in the decision making process.

Power and decision making society should grow towards the equal representation of men and women in influential positions.

Can't the rich do things like that?

US influence in Burma is unlikely to outweigh that of increasingly powerful Asian neighbors.

With influence must come accountability.

No Country for Young Oligarchs

Finland fell into the Soviet sphere.

And he is going to have even more leverage.

I have every weapon money, connections, prestige.

Women, systematically mistreated for millennia are gradually gaining the political and economic power traditionally denied to them. and some wars of aggression have recently been stopped or curtailed, because of a revulsion felt by the people in the aggressor nations.

The EU has even more leverage.

He possesses more influence than power.

The Romans also exerted influence on the Persian Gulf.

Unfortunately, the power both sides have exerts an influence

You no longer saw me. You saw only power.

The key factor, in our view, is the global influence of candidates.

I am not a rich person. I am the grandson of the rich person.

It's very cheap. We have a lot of leverage.

You might argue about the sanity of it, but the leverage is real.

The purpose of influence is not to build your ego.

Likewise, influential groups such as Hamas, the legitimate winner of the Palestinian elections, cannot be eliminated by military force, however powerful, nor exorcised by decree.

BEIRUT Almost undetected, Russia is regaining much of the influence that it lost in the Middle East after the Soviet Union collapsed.

The second is to increase voters spending power through populist subsidies and transfers, which typically tend to be directed toward the politically influential rather than the truly needy.

The White Moors are a light skinned Berber people who speak Arabic.

I would urge the international community to make full use of that leverage.

Case No. ORSM 478 relates to an alleged case of influence peddling.

I'm here to tell you today that you are all on the brink of influence.

You're begging to go back into uniform, pounding a beat out in the sticks.

Russia has had centuries of influence in the Middle East and Central Asia, much of which used to be incorporated in the Russian and Soviet empires.

But in China, the brand has unwittingly found itself enmeshed in tales that illustrate the powerlessness of ordinary Chinese against the powerful and corrupt.

The EU vision of a capitalist economy harnessed to social progress and subject to regulation, rather than laissez faire, is growing in influence.

The party then hemorrhaged influential members, particularly in the north.

In Iraq, free elections have revealed the enormous influence of Islamist currents.

This confederation, under French influence, put an end to the Holy Roman Empire.

The Sail that claims today that it is dedicated to fight the Syrian influence in Lebanon

Developments in these countries during the postcommunist years marked a gradual change from Russian to European influence, but that is not irreversible.

Asia s new clout holds tremendous promise.

Here India has been slow to join the struggle for influence.

As it stands, India and China are openly competing for influence in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Nepal, and Bangladesh.

Over time, enhanced influence will enable him to get more things done.