I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a disruptive influence (= a person who causes disruption )
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Mike’s parents thought I was a disruptive influence .
a position of influence
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The media have an unrivalled position of influence.
a positive influence
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His mother was a strong positive influence.
a strong influence
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The experience of living there had a strong influence on me.
affect/influence the outcome
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Did coverage in the media affect the outcome of the trial?
cultural factors/influences
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Research suggests that cultural factors influence scores in intelligence tests.
decisive factor/effect/influence etc
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Women can play a decisive role in the debate over cloning.
exert influence
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These large companies exert considerable influence over the government.
factors influence sth
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Various factors influenced the government’s decision.
formative influence/effect etc
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International politics were a formative influence on the party.
heavily dependent/reliant/influenced
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Britain is heavily dependent on imports for its raw materials.
influence sb’s behaviour
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The genes we inherit influence our behaviour.
influence/shape the course of sth
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The result of this battle influenced the whole course of the war.
powerful influence
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Immigrants have had a powerful influence on the local culture.
profound effect/influence/impact/consequence etc
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Tolstoy’s experiences of war had a profound effect on his work.
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The mother’s behaviour has a profound impact on the developing child.
under the influence of alcohol/drink/drugs etc
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He was accused of driving while under the influence of alcohol.
undue influence
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De Gaulle felt that America had undue influence in Europe.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bad
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Her brief encounter with the Sun had evidently had a bad influence on her.
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She fretted about all the bad influences , all the temptations to idleness which surrounded her sons.
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Even within the ultra-clean pages of Smash Hits, there are a number of bad influences featured every fortnight.
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People are afraid of the horror genre as a whole and parents are afraid their children might be exposed to bad influences .
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He was what they used to call a bad influence in the school.
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They were a bad influence , Paquita said: a decadent life and no ambition.
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But what should parents do if they believe their children's friends are having a bad influence on them?
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You've been a bad influence .
considerable
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These teachers exerted considerable influence within the school, because they held positions as heads of departments or as year heads.
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Hillary Clinton is married to Bill Clinton; she used to be a lawyer and wields considerable influence as first lady.
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Brayne had considerable influence on other millenarian and spiritual writers.
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Metaphors have side effects, although sometimes it is difficult to detect them until they have had a considerable influence upon us.
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Because of their early contact with parents they often had considerable influence in steering parents towards specialist provision.
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He had a considerable influence upon the thinking of Piaget.
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The ruler of the nights has always held considerable influence in astrology.
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The selection of the method of purification of the wastes therefore has considerable influence on the plant costs.
cultural
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More subtle forms of cultural influence also abound.
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Today, the spread of cultural influence has attained vertiginous speed.
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Each frame of reference is constructed largely through cultural influences .
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Will the ever faster spread of cultural influence remove the frontiers between civilizations that were once so firm in world history?
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They will be discussed in terms of material resources and economic developments, as well as urban networks, financial relationships and cultural influences .
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Where education reduces fertility, which is nearly everywhere, the trigger point varies according to cultural influences .
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The great cultural influence came from the monastic settlements, where the Cistercian Order was most active.
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Yet this political hostility did not prevent its welcoming, on occasion, cultural influence from the West.
decisive
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The method used can have a decisive influence on the ranking of the proposals.
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In numerous races, evangelical voters were of decisive influence in deciding the outcome.
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Consequently, developments in the international financial structure have had a decisive influence on how wealth-creating activities are divided among nations.
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Moreover, it was an event that had a decisive influence on the way macro-policy evolved.
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Control is widely defined as the ability to exercise a decisive influence over a company by any means.
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Thus, they have a decisive influence over the results in most of the elections.
direct
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It had, however, been tough being Bernard's son, until he removed himself from his direct sphere of influence .
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To understand it, it is necessary to make a distinction be-tween the direct and indirect influence religion has on reproductive behavior.
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To begin with, it is an attempt to influence a great deal that is beyond management's direct sphere of influence.
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The evidence suggests, then, that the direct influence of religious doctrine on individual reproductive decisions is weak.
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Probably the most effective direct influence by employment interests on the college curriculum comes from their membership of course committees.
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Notice that few of these regulations have any direct influence upon the direction of insurance companies' investment funds.
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It is difficult to detect any direct influence of Darwin's writings on the development of the main stream of plant ecology.
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In the provincial press, and especially the local weeklies, it is more difficult to believe that direct influence was rare.
formative
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His formative influence as a boy had been John Cassell's Popular Educator, first published in 1852.
great
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The first Prime Ministers were messenger boys, but with potentially great influence .
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This showed that health visitors had the greatest influence on social workers.
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I can have a great deal of influence just by my voice.
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Subordinates with the greatest knowledge of a problem will have greater influence over the decision.
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Most witches were women, often aged derelicts who wielded great influence over the people.
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The greater the influence , the more the security.
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For all his shyness, Rawls has exercised a great influence on those who come into personal contact with him.
important
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But this is unjust to what has been a most important influence on modern design.
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But the second most important influence was the school itself.
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He planned Letchworth, and had an important influence on the proposals of the Tudor-Walters Report.
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In larger cities, ties to the land are less important and homogenizing influences have a greater impact.
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Maternal nutrition may be an important influence on programming.
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Some feminist psychologists too are realizing that age may have important influences on gender.
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Psychoanalytic theory has probably been the single most important theoretical influence on the discipline of Art History over the past decade.
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Climate has an important influence on these outcomes.
major
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In other words, are formal or informal mechanisms of control the major influence ?
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She had been a major influence in my life, and helped me through the rough patches.
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There appear to have been two major influences behind the modification of the classic pacta tertiis rule.
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Henley will continue to have a major influence on management development worldwide in the 1990s.
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For example, post-puberty is the time when peer group friendships may take over from parents as the major influence .
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This brings us to the final, major stylistic influence to be found within Traditional Realism.
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Out of the multiplicity of factors influencing the development of the personality of the black child the following are the major influences.
outside
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The Dalmatians from Ragusa represented the most important of the outside influences which penetrated into the heart of the Balkans.
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The outside influences have no bearing on what you can do for your basketball team....
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Her geographical position, like Athens', was accessible to outside influences and radical thinking.
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Investigators have concluded that outside influence drove numerous personnel decisions and resulted in slanted broadcasts.
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The development of an idea is a tortuous process involving many outside influences .
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But society should not expect those outside influences to do the job a parent should, nor should a parent expect that.
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The affable manager said no, it was simply a style of cooking open to outside influences , like California cuisine.
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As a result of these outside influences , employees have even less trust in their own plant management. 4.
political
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With this decline in spiritual and political influence has come an economic slide.
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But he will begin his second term as the third-highest constitutional officer in the government with his political influence significantly diminished.
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In their place the crown employed lesser nobles and lawyers who had no awkward pretensions to political influence .
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With about twenty-five thousand people owing their government jobs to political activity or influence , nothing is typical or unusual.
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The emphasis on rules is further supported by consideration of the political influences on policy-setters.
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The drive should further boost the political influence of small companies, which is already growing rapidly, lobbyists figure.
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Inequalities in material life-chances are fundamental; status differences and differences in political influence tend to be dependent on material life chances.
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Of more concern, Nye and other specialists feel, is the growing political influence of the military in internal affairs.
positive
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The bureau is hard pressed for staff but may nevertheless decide that such work has wider positive influence .
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Just thinking it over, you will see how deep and positive an influence this can be.
powerful
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The financial markets are themselves an immensely powerful influence which we can never afford to ignore.
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In naturally occurring decision environments, interactions between situational demands and self-referent factors can exert a powerful influence on the decision-making process.
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At every stage in the communication process we can detect the powerful influence of culture.
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In the coming millennium, Dahl predicted, new telecommunications technology will exert a powerful influence for change on the democratic process.
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The Special Unit in Barlinnie Prison has showed dramatically how powerful the influence of art can be.
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Room temperature exerted a powerful influence on the going rate of any timekeeper.
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This may be a powerful influence in any decision about age of retirement.
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Peer pressure among journalists also can have a powerful influence on improving performance.
profound
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Although not formally a member Gore had a profound influence on Leese.
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Could such extraordinary images not exert a profound influence on art in this century?
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The designer's close encounter of severe illness had a profound influence on his scheme.
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Very few fully appreciated their profound influence on their junior colleagues.
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The historical legacy of this hegemony continues to have a profound influence on the contemporary political landscape.
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He had a profound influence at a personal level on his contemporaries.
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These two beliefs, not overtly of political relevance, are to exert a profound influence on political thought.
significant
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Only in the rapidly declining Liberal party did the radicals have any significant influence on policy.
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Rate of partner change, or contact rate, is the third significant factor that influences risk.
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Even with stringent controls for partisanship and ideology, multiple regression analyses show that the press had a significant influence on preferences.
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In addition, government policies on taxation and welfare benefits will have a significant influence .
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To this principle many exceptions are recognized and it can not be said to have had a significant influence on constitutional practice.
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Household size, marital status, and ethnicity all failed to show a significant influence in the participation model.
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The hovering presence of Ford and General Motors remained the most significant influence .
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In our series the histological differentiation grade of the tumour had no significant influence on survival.
strong
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Obviously, granters of credit have strong influence .
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The strongest influence religion has on slowing the transition to low fertility is among poor and uneducated women in rural areas.
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The press had a particularly strong influence on the attitudes of Labour identifiers, especially towards the end of the campaign.
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Toulouse-Lautrec was of the generation of artists who followed the Impressionists, and Degas had a particularly strong influence on his work.
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Nevertheless the grandmother was a strong influence .
undue
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The first reason is that the apparent consent or refusal was given as a result of undue influence .
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Anything too wild might qualify as an undue influence on the rest of us.
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Even if the pressure had constituted undue influence , it would not, in my judgment, have affected the bank.
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Besides, Chennault had worked for Chiang and hence was under the undue influence of the generalissimo.
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Notice, first, the doctrine of undue influence .
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Possibilities of blackmail or undue influence .
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The vitiating feature was undue influence or misrepresentation on the part of the debtor unknown to the creditor.
■ VERB
exercise
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That has not prevented them exercising a great influence on our cultural development.
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But the Communist ministers, who were carefully kept from exercising real influence , soon quit in disgust.
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She distrusted the institutions through which they exercised influence from the moment that supreme power seemed within her grasp.
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Political maps of the time show how complex the situation really was when Rodrigo began to exercise an influence .
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He exercised increasing influence over the College and in 1860 was appointed delegate protector.
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People also obey orders given by these managers because it is the leader's position to exercise influence in the organisation.
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For all his shyness, Rawls has exercised a great influence on those who come into personal contact with him.
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It was the kingdom of the Franks which was to exercise most influence for the longest period of time.
exert
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In one way or another towns exerted an influence over the farming population.
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Several groups claim to exert their influence , but insist that it is no more than that.
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None the less, the past does exert its moulding influence upon us.
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The first is that the constant component of monetary growth, g, does now exert an influence on real output.
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Contemporaries in sport and coaches exert the main influences and the family's role in the sports process is redundant.
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Furthermore, it is difficult for the participant observer not to exert some influence on the events that are being observed.
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But in the twenties and the early thirties, it exerted a considerable influence over much of London and the Home Counties.
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But in 2000, it was financial officers and senior executives who exerted their influence .
increase
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He exercised increasing influence over the College and in 1860 was appointed delegate protector.
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Corporations involved in the escalating race to acquire media properties seek not only expanded profitability but also increasing influence .
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Feminists are also realizing that a rejection of biology can, paradoxically, increase the influence of biological determinism.
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One change which, if implemented, could increase the influence of councillors, would be some form of payment.
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The political skills you have to increase your power and influence within an organization. organization.
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The unemployed movement served to increase Communist influence , but was attacked for not doing so fast enough.
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No doubt Britain tries to increase its influence by placing its representatives in key posts, but all member states do that.
show
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A surprising amount of work to be found in the island does, however, show their influence .
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Park's personal papers also show other influences on the Chicago School's thinking.
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The statues of saints in their niches show the influence of Michelangelo.
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His work shows the influence of the Danubian School, but little else is known of him.
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The few cases where we know how a girl entered the trade show a mixture of influences .
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But Cray's music has always shown the influence of more forms than the urban twelve-bar.
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In the artnouveau style, the lettering and bronze basin showing the influence of Charles Rennie Macintosh.
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Studies of the human oesophagus and duodenum showed the same influence of intestinal tone upon the pressure elastic modulus during distension.
use
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But as anarchy increases, so we will be expected to use that influence .
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They also sought to use their influence with Draskovic and other opposition leaders, cautioning them against agitating for further violence.
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These differences in resources force the two to use different styles of influence .
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He was indifferent to the attention he received, calmly going about his business, never using his influence to manipulate others.
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Now they are intent upon capturing the Conscience to use its influence for their own ends.
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Unfortunately for the council, it used its influence occasionally in opposition to the liberal administration.
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High-ranking officials were said to be rigging privatization to their own advantage, using their influence in local administrations.
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He was then appointed as the master of the mint and used his influence to help the sick and homeless.
wield
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Culturally dominant and playing a pervasive role in the everyday life of élite and masses alike, it wielded enormous influence .
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Hillary Clinton is married to Bill Clinton; she used to be a lawyer and wields considerable influence as first lady.
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In the chair of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a lobbying group, she wields considerable influence in the Valley and beyond.
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Most witches were women, often aged derelicts who wielded great influence over the people.
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Karajan was comfortable with his stature as a power broker and not at all shy about wielding his influence .
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Traditionally within the scope of human imagination only gods had wielded such mighty influence on the affairs of men.
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Conservatism went into relative eclipse. while Labour under Clement Attlee was able to wield influence in the coalition government.
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In any case, the whole process will be modified by the ability of each group to wield power and influence .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bring pressure/influence to bear (on sb/sth)
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As consumers in a capitalist society we have great power to bring pressure to bear .
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In London Channel 4 journalists and Insight News, the production company, brought pressure to bear .
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It is no longer our job to criticize or bring pressure to bear .
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On his eastern border, Ine brought pressure to bear on the eastern Saxons who were sheltering exiles from his kingdom.
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Those groups have brought pressure to bear on government to provide resources or pursue policies to the benefit of their members.
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Workers have their own organisations which can bring pressure to bear on governments and make demands on the state.
sb's/sth's sphere of influence
wield power/influence/authority etc
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A close adviser of the dead King, he now wields power because of that King's death.
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But more characteristic was the visible manipulation of supernatural power by men and women who wielded authority.
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Conservatism went into relative eclipse. while Labour under Clement Attlee was able to wield influence in the coalition government.
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Curtiss draws a picture of a sensual, self-serving middle-aged woman who wields power as well as influence.
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In allowing authority figures to wield power over us indiscriminately, we surrender our rights to choose to take responsibility.
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Others were content to wield power in the party machines rather than in the public eye.
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They weren't out to impress or wield power.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The authorities were worried about the influence of Western films and TV programmes.
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The banks had too much influence over government policy.
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The book is about the influence of feminist ideas on American society.
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The Catholic Church has always had a lot of influence in Polish politics.
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Using her influence with her husband, Evita Peron won women the right to vote.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Inpart they were motivated by concern to shore up the influence of their class over provincial affairs.
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It is particularly more comfortable when I know that the donors will not ask for my votes and my influence .
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It would be quite wrong to suggest that the only influence on mate choice is relative familiarity.
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Lay influence was under threat and the laity's rights as patrons were being questioned.
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To fix: Using clout or influence to produce a favorable result, usually from an entity of government.
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We all have positions of influence .
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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deeply
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It is something that has deeply influenced all social life.
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This self-sufficiency in the face of tragedy must have deeply influenced Agnes, who was seven when her father died.
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Both societies are deeply influenced by their history and by their perception of that history.
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The political orientations of most individuals are deeply influenced by behaviors and beliefs experienced in the family environment.
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His writings deeply influenced many later mathematicians and scientists, most notably Galileo and Newton.
greatly
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A massive interview program convinced Mayo that informal working groups created a social environment that greatly influenced the productivity of the employees.
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Piaget s system for conceptualizing intellectual development was greatly influenced by his early training and work as a biologist.
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The younger musicians, influenced greatly by Miles Davis, liked their jazz, but liked it loud.
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The price of gas which only supplies about 30 percent of the energy does not greatly influence the results.
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A culture that promotes and encourages change will greatly influence the attitude to change held by staff.
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It was also greatly influenced by the managers' credibility and network of relationships.
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The true incidence of this varies and is greatly influenced by the experience and skill of the surgical team.
heavily
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As with other institutions in the Third World education has been heavily influenced by colonialism.
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These expectations will usually be heavily influenced by past profits, but they are not the only consideration.
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Detailed statistics are not available for the inner city itself, but overall black totals are heavily influenced by ghetto conditions.
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The cases should provide evidence on the conservative course of a court heavily influenced by appointments made during the Reagan years.
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The number of errors is heavily influenced by motivation of the staff.
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An individual's scope for modifying it will inevitably be heavily influenced by site and corporate culture.
profoundly
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A more specific example of how the culture of work profoundly influences the industrial worker is around the issue of assessment.
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Most of the important Physics that has been done in the laboratory during that time has been profoundly influenced by Sir Charles.
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Clearly, although he did not agree with Plato, he too was profoundly influenced by the cosmological view of time.
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Our attitudes are profoundly influenced by our own experiences both in the past and in the present.
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John Cage, composer and performance artist who profoundly influenced the development of avant-garde music, died 12 August, aged seventy-nine.
strongly
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Recent reorganisations have been strongly influenced by discussions about the appropriate size that would enable a local authority to accept particular responsibilities.
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Positive feedback from peers also strongly influenced the managers' development.
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The young were free flying, and the future status of this species in Sussex will be strongly influenced by this population.
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The way they reacted to the workplace was strongly influenced by their own personal situation.
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It was strongly influenced by the contemporary art movement known as Constructivism, which was being energetically pursued.
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This effect can be strongly influenced by diet.
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It is composed of species adapted to the urban environment and is influenced strongly by the availability of seeds.
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This approach was strongly influenced by the methods of natural science.
■ NOUN
ability
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An experimental study of the ability of subjects to influence their own dreams was conducted at David Foulkes's laboratory.
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Power is therefore the ability to influence , whereas influence is an active process.
action
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Politics occurs in the midst of many changing conditions that can influence those actions .
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Does it influence any political actions I might take?
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Depending on the political system, this might entail voting and campaign activities to influence the selection and action of political authorities.
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I tried never to let my foresight influence my action , but how can I tell?
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It should be evident from these examples that there are many aspects of the environment that might influence political beliefs and actions .
attempt
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It was published in October 1988 as an attempt to influence the Labour Party's programme of modernisation.
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Members of the group mentor students and attempt to influence policy on campus activities important to women.
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To begin with, it is an attempt to influence a great deal that is beyond management's direct sphere of influence.
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A number of our respondents believe that they can enlist the support of others in their attempts to influence the government.
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There is anger here about Britain's attempts to influence the present situation.
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The programme marked perhaps the beginning of Mrs Whitehouse's attempts to influence the content of particular programmes.
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Political parties need to respect the military and try to avoid attempts to influence the forces for political advantage.
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What differentiates them is the degree to which it is acknowledged that an attempt to influence those above is being made.
behavior
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In any situation in which some one is trying to influence the behavior of another individual or group, leadership occurs.
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Many factors besides reasoning influence behavior .
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What is counted shapes and influences the behavior of the organization.
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The results of numerous studies from around the world clearly show that both genes and the environment influence drinking behavior .
behaviour
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Conversely, political behaviour helps influence the contours of the Constitution.
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Language behaviour is influenced not only by personality but also by convention and culture.
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The results would suggest that the behaviour of boys influences teacher bias towards them.
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In other words, as hormones influence behaviour , so behaviour influences hormones.
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The genes worked on behaviour , presumably by influencing the embryonic development of the nervous system.
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The attributes of most interest to evolution-size, shape, or behaviour-are influenced by both.
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The former approach sees behaviour as being influenced by the structure of society.
change
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The variable most likely to be influenced by changes in interest rates is investment.
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The Tory party used cash and back channels and foreign donations to influence elections and change laws.
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Once more her argument rests on the potential of self-evaluation to influence change .
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There were more performances of his works, and his own interpretations were influencing changes in styles of performance.
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The final factor influencing employment are the changes in the developing world.
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A major factor influencing this change is the projected trend in CO2 emissions.
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Where such steady-state paths exist, then we can examine how they are influenced by changes in the parameters.
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The overall shape of policy development is broadly clear, but the rationale and factors influencing change are less well understood.
choice
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For whether knowingly or unknowingly, through fact or fiction, their stories can influence the traveller's choice of destination.
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The industrialist Philibert Vrau, influenced this choice .
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Recent occurrence appears to have influenced the other choices .
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The type of research, including its clinical component, may well influence future career choice and opportunity.
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Values will influence the choice of topic, as they do in all branches of science, but methods should be value-free.
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The pamphlets had explicitly sought to influence voters in their choice of candidate in the general election.
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The factors influencing their choices can be understood, and these influences lie at two levels.
course
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Can outside pressure play a role in influencing the course of events?
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Jack MacFarland privately influenced my course of study at Loyola, and death once again ripped through our small family.
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What power did the woman herself have to influence the course of events?
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In this way, the weakest contestants demonstrated that even they could influence the course of international diplomacy.
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The effects of other genes and environmental factors may influence the different course of the disease in this subset of patients.
decision
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Other factors - for example, equity - legitimately influence decisions .
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As the schedule stands now, the next test will not take place until November, too late to influence a decision .
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The young woman was also pregnant and Kendrick believes this consideration could have influenced the court's decision .
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Something Harrick had seen time and again in practice also influenced his decision .
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That such a prolific goalscorer should choose a club renowned for their attacking play demonstrates the practical considerations which influenced his decision .
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This was confirmed in one of the survey questions, which identified 10 factors influencing decisions on where to place contracts.
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However, it is not necessarily the immediate reply which influences decision so much as the well-considered facts succinctly presented.
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There the political system has several characteristics that particularly facilitate the mobilization of small groups of people to influence decisions .
development
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Albeit in an oblique fashion, Soviet Socialist Realism thus influenced the development of western high art.
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Positive feedback from peers also strongly influenced the managers' development .
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We can not allow pagan concepts to influence our character development .
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Vygotsky was concerned with the question of how social and cultural factors influence intellectual development .
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Thirdly, a crucial aim of the text is to show how the relationship between cultural and economic processes influences social development .
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This paper will argue the importance of indigenous ethnic identity in influencing economic development in the region.
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Out of the multiplicity of factors influencing the development of the personality of the black child the following are the major influences.
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Of the conditions in their environment, it is the depth of the water that mainly influences their development .
election
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The Tory party used cash and back channels and foreign donations to influence elections and change laws.
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How does the media influence elections ?
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As well as generating ideas, the Reform of Heisei hopes to influence elections .
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No one believes that money given to the two campaigns' national committees was not intended to influence a federal election .
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The party elite and the local activists certainly tried their utmost to influence the outcome of elections .
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Meanwhile, the National Black Political Convention will be held this summer in a bid to influence the presidential election .
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He says Mr Kirk is just trying to influence the election and even the school headmaster wants nothing to do with it.
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Whatever happens this time, presidential debates have a way of dominating our campaign memories, and occasionally influencing elections .
event
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Can outside pressure play a role in influencing the course of events ?
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Parents feel guilty, even if there is no way they could have influenced events .
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The supernatural beings of the Sinhalese could be manipulated by humans soas to influence events , but their ethical position was ambiguous.
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No doubt, this decision was influenced by another event of the recent past, the Geneva Convention in 1954.
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What power did the woman herself have to influence the course of events ?
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Nature is powerful, but not omnipotent: history too often influences events .
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It is by influencing these local events that genes ultimately exert influences on the adult body.
fact
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But the public's confidence in technology is an emotive thing-and not generally influenced by the facts .
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Doubtless this view is influenced by the fact that children's reading ability is more limited at this time.
factor
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Growth promoters reduce stem height, but agronomic factors influence crop lodging heavily.
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These factors influence not only cognitive reasoning but also affective reasoning.
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Mr. Clarke Any intelligent parent, intelligent governor or intelligent newspaper person will bear it in mind that various factors influence results.
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Many factors besides reasoning influence behavior.
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There is also evidence in favour of the view that what we might think of as pragmatic factors influence language comprehension.
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These factors also influence the demand for one sort of drink in preference to another.
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What are the factors that will influence your decision?
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The factors that influence the size of the proliferative compartment are less clear, though in rats there are genetic differences.
government
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Their purpose is to influence government to adopt policies favourable to them.
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A number of our respondents believe that they can enlist the support of others in their attempts to influence the government .
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To elaborate, business, like other interest groups, makes representations to government in order to influence government policy.
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The public can join and campaign, supporting beliefs and causes with the intent of influencing popular opinion and government .
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It could provide data for other endeavors and possibly influence government codes regulating flood control.
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Aiming to keep the campaign goal-bound Nicola Hill How do long-running campaigns to influence government policy keep going?
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Another aspect of political competence is the strategy an individual would use in attempting to influence the government .
idea
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The extent to which Pythagoras and his followers may have been influenced by oriental ideas has long been a subject for argument.
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In fact, he influenced ideas about work so much that he has been credited with planting the first seeds of capitalism.
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These guidelines could be influenced by certain religious ideas towards abortion.
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William Wordsworth may have been influenced in his ideas of development by William Green.
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It may not be quite correct to classify Alcmaeon as a Pythagorean, but he was certainly influenced by Pythagorean ideas .
level
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The use of fiscal and monetary policies to influence the level of demand also has implications for the prices and growth objectives.
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It is not absorbed into the bloodstream, nor does it influence hormone levels , the company says.
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Advertising does not seem to influence total consumption or levels of abuse.
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The answer to that may be that lowering cholesterol influences the level of serotonin, a neurotransmitter which affects mood.
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The quality of care provided by the nurse can be influenced by the levels of stress among the work force.
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Most governments manipulated tax rates and government expenditure to influence the overall level of spending in the economy.
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In practice, governments can also use monetary policy and exchange rate policy to influence the level of aggregate demand.
life
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Hardly anybody in the big wide world has heard of us, let alone been influenced by our lives .
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How does it influence their life , liberty, and pursuit of happiness?
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Tell him how sorry you are for letting Satan influence your life .
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That is, they perceive government as influencing their lives .
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These were the women who influenced my life .
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It was an experience which heavily influenced his subsequent life .
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It is something that has deeply influenced all social life .
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Indeed, this context influences their lives and health as they themselves relate.
opinion
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Constraint knowledge is well developed and influences most specific opinions .
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The press had become a prime mover in determining government policy and influencing public opinion .
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In addition, there has also been press criticism that ministers have been using advance knowledge to influence market and media opinion .
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Within our society are groups which are called opinion formers because they influence the opinions of many other people.
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They have never been influenced by public opinion in the past but perhaps these are exceptional times.
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What is lacking is the will to move towards the alternatives, and this can be influenced by public opinion .
outcome
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They influence the outcome of discussions and persuade others of their point of view more than women do.
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Each has its own momentum that critically affects how much developing country governments can influence the outcomes .
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She felt she could influence the outcome of the screenplay by her concentrated thoughts as the story unfolded.
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These must influence the outcome of the experiment.
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Whether the curbs on police investigation will reduce police influence on the outcome of the criminal process is not easy to determine.
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Such models comprise theoretical constructs of variables which are interrelated, and significant in influencing the outcome of a purchase motivation.
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It never did much good and even now with all our antibiotics we can not greatly influence the final outcome .
policy
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To what extent does the increasing militancy of other civil servants influence policy making?
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It was the first time women used e-mail on such a massive scale to network and to influence the foreign policy community.
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To elaborate, business, like other interest groups, makes representations to government in order to influence government policy .
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Most young entrants say they are joining the service be-cause they want to influence foreign policy .
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This attitude will, therefore, also influence the policies of any successor regime.
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For some protesters, the object is to get the attention of the news media and office holders who can influence policy .
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Clearly, the life chances of many rural residents would be considerably influenced by the policy adopted.
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That was not the first ethnic bloc seeking to influence foreign policy , but it eclipsed predecessors.
position
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Diana felt that she was in no position to influence her husband's behaviour.
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Are parents really in a very strong position to influence their child's performance in the classroom?
power
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In the future, no speaker will have enough time to develop power and influence .
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Already we should be persuaded that the Bank has considerable power to influence monetary conditions.
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The consultant will need sufficient power to influence the sponsor in order to sell the effort to others in the organization.
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The idea of the separation of powers also seems to influence Dicey's belief that Parliamentary sovereignty favours the supremacy of law.
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Silly though it may have seemed at first, these all-male secret societies are bastions of extraordinary power and influence .
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Reward power Managers influence the behaviour of their team members by rewarding them.
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That would belie the complexity of using power and influence flexibly to meet the needs of each situation.
process
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How should expectations be passed between levels, and how strongly should they influence other processes ?
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The scrutiny has spread to encompass questions about how Clinton relatives and others with special access may have influenced the pardon process .
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Fourthly, and last, there are variations in external context that influence the visionary process .
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They lacked the resources and administrative support that larger companies routinely employ to influence the political process .
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He has no means of influencing these processes .
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It is, today, simply one of many interest groups attempting to influence the decision-making process .
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However, there are several different kinds of centre-periphery relationships that significantly influence the implementation process .
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Yet a cursory look at these systems reveals that in practice the police still influence the process greatly.
rate
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Next, Barro tests the proposition that it is only the unpredictable part of money growth that influences the rate of unemployment.
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This is to influence the rate of exchange.
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In this way the Bank influences interest rates throughout the market.
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Differential inflation rates and current account disequilibria probably influence exchange rates over the medium-term, i.e. two-five years.
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Investment may be influenced by interest rates , but also depends on more volatile factors in the economy like businessmen's expectations.
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This is influenced by interest rates , economic and political developments or expectations.
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Individual banks and discount houses can alleviate liquidity shortages through these markets without the Bank having an opportunity to influence rates .
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Factors such as unemployment and the number of young people attending further education also influence labour force participation rates .
way
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We are monitoring the entire town to find out how preventative measures can influence the way people live.
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But a more direct way exists for the Moon to influence fertility.
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The work of the clinical teacher is influenced by the way in which her responsibilities are organised.
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These medications may influence the way a sleeping pill works.
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This was one factor influencing the way in which the teachings of Arnold and his successors were actually apprehended.
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How, for example, education, culture, psychological and physiological factors influence the way we react to an image.
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He knew that he was now powerless to influence the way they would vote.
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My legacy to my children would be not to try to influence them in any way as to what they should study.
work
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In fact, he influenced ideas about work so much that he has been credited with planting the first seeds of capitalism.
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Virtually everybody involved in administering or advising on the tax was influenced by his work .
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To what extent does low status influence the work of women teachers?
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The functionalist style of legal writing was greatly influenced by the work of Harold Laski.
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Futurism Effects of parallax have influenced the work of many twentieth century artists.
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As a practising scientist, I could not allow such subjective assessments of the human condition to influence my work .
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Jay Young's aims to show how science and technology have influenced the work of artists.
■ VERB
seek
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It has been paralleled by far-reaching changes in the ways in which politicians seek to influence their electorate.
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That was not the first ethnic bloc seeking to influence foreign policy, but it eclipsed predecessors.
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The pamphlets had explicitly sought to influence voters in their choice of candidate in the general election.
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But however affected, the mission has been to seek out, to influence , to change.
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Parliament is a talking shop where members seek to influence others by debate.
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The perceptions by leaders of the qualities and values of those they are seeking to influence .
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Governments would have to undertake solemnly not to seek to influence it.
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Dansey did not seek to influence its policy, so long as it kept out of his agents' way.
try
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What responsibility does it have to try to influence the human outlook?
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Perhaps the Form Manipulator was trying to influence all those around the victims to give up their faith.
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Instead of just trying to influence those in power, we would now become the people in power.
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The issues are numerous and diverse but groups form to try to influence decisions concerning these issues.
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My legacy to my children would be not to try to influence them in any way as to what they should study.
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In any situation in which some one is trying to influence the behavior of another individual or group, leadership occurs.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sb's/sth's sphere of influence
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Do TV programs influence children's behaviour?
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Don't let him influence you - make up your own mind.
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Don't let me influence your decision.
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How much does TV advertising really influence what people buy?
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I hope you weren't influenced by anything that your brother said.
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Judges should not be influenced by political motives.
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Some of the romantic painters were very much influenced by Goya's work.
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The jury's verdict was clearly influenced by their sympathy for the defendant.
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The prisoner claims he was influenced by his older friends to carry out the crime.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Nature alone can not influence an unschooled yokel.
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Recent occurrence appears to have influenced the other choices.
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Redon was particularly influenced by his botanist friend Armand Clavaud who used the microscope in studies of minute plant forms.
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That is, they perceive government as influencing their lives.
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The type of research, including its clinical component, may well influence future career choice and opportunity.
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The year in which an individual served also undoubtedly influenced his impressions of the land surrounding him.
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Their potential to influence growth, through either expansion or diversification, is investigated.
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This was confirmed in one of the survey questions, which identified 10 factors influencing decisions on where to place contracts.