First, local governments influence a large proportion of investment decisions.

Small shareholders cannot easily influence banks decisions, especially on complex risk related issues.

The bottom up approach implies that lower levels influence decisions at higher levels.

You believe you have great influence over him.

Some States undertake territorial subdivision to make it possible for compactly settled minorities to have greater influence over political, social and economic decisions affecting their members.

The regime has multiple coexisting power centers, which influence and limit each other s decisions.

We are fully aware of their influence on the decisions of the British Parliament.

But you have more influence over him than I.

let our unconscious influence those decisions in ways that we are not quite aware of.

Local governments make or exert influence on decisions and investments regarding road, transportation and transit systems.

And there is a lot of political influence over this issue.

Its decisions are binding on all Member States and have a determining influence on millions of people.

China has more influence over Burma s ruling generals than any other country.

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

A country with such influence over a military superpower cannot be considered weak.

young women have less control over decisions to use condoms.

He has a bad influence over his friends, with the single exception of myself.

Its influence on society was immense, as it affected the decisions taken in various fields social, political, economic, technological and cultural.

It would marginalize the role and potential of a majority of the other countries to influence the Council apos s decisions.

But it is unclear how much influence China s government holds over Kim Jong un s regime.

This indicates that they have major influence over Internet policy in these countries as well.

Over the past decade, the growth of NGOs in number and influence has been phenomenal.

Over the past year, treaty bodies have also adopted well over 100 decisions and views on individual cases.

But now Japan s political and economic influence in South East Asia is gradually declining, owing in part to its failure to exert influence over security and defense matters.

This combined with the intervention in Vietnam set the stage for further French influence in China leading up to a sphere of influence over parts of Southern China.

But the election results will not matter parliament, too, has little influence over Iran s foreign policy.

As costs surge, Chinese producers are seeking higher value, new niches, and more influence over policymaking.

Both India and China are each seeking greater influence over the strategically important country of Myanmar.

The pace of the decline of Western influence seems to have accelerated over the past decade.

Lincoln also presided over the expansion of the federal government's economic influence in several other areas.

He used it in the context of political influence exerted by a patron over a client.

Cultural norms also influence a woman apos s fertility, over which many women have little control.

Viability, community involvement and the ability of the project to create jobs were among the guidelines that would influence decisions on funding applications.

Further, Board discussions should not preclude decisions on the system wide reform, which would take precedence over Board decisions on working methods.

We hope that inertia will not prevail over political decisions or human sensitivity.

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Influence.

And so it's quite surprising that many of us let our unconscious influence those decisions in ways that we are not quite aware of.

A few years ago, my colleagues and I were interested in how a brain chemical called serotonin would influence people's decisions in social situations.

Over the last four years, Ahmadinejad has repeatedly tried to undermine the ruling clerics control over political and policy decisions.

Unlike majority influence, minority influence can rarely influence others through normative social influence because the majority is indifferent to the minority's perspective of them.

Lawmakers also should consider providing public investors with a say over political spending decisions.

China s vast influence over a few fellow dictatorships still holds out the best hope of softening their misrule.

To Italian lawmakers, mired in stalemate and indecision, the French executive s considerable influence over the parliament is appealing.

Early medieval records indicate that over 60 of personal names in Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire showed Scandinavian influence.