Sentences with phrase «exert more influence»

Backbenchers fear the front bench aim is to exert more influence over who gets these jobs.»

While the Tories may have tacked to the right, the Lib Dems are at least in a position to exert more influence, with some significant and bolstering appointments lower down the pecking order.

Parenting books written by doctors and scientists began to exert more influence on mothers and a variety of parenting styles emerged throughout the 20th century.

To exert more influence on the team.

Although Microsoft would have no operational control over Dell, according to reports, the software giant would be in a position to exert more influence over the direction of the company's products.

With 40 million streaming subscribers in more than 40 countries so far — the Netherlands was just added in September — the service is growing in clout and exerting more influence on every aspect of the visual entertainment medium, from production and distribution to content and viewing patterns.

No device has exerted more influence in the last decade, or most other decades.

Osborne is not the first Chancellor to act in this way, giving away some power over economic policy - making while exerting more influence across government.

Guerrilla, Season 1, Episode 3: Marcus and Dhari argue over who exerts more influence over their movement.

During the last 15 to 20 years, attachment theory has exerted more influence in the field of psychotherapy than just about any other model, approach, or movement.

Indeed, during the last 15 to 20 years, attachment theory has exerted more influence in the field of psychotherapy than just about any other model, approach, or movement.

However, Wasserstrum and other observers strongly doubt the old - fashioned networking and handshaking that have so far characterized commercial real estate deals will vanish as technology exerts more influence on the industry.

Not exact matches

If Christians as he says are more focused on doing good deeds than exerting their influence politically to tramp down the rights of others, then more power to them.

Yet his vision of the Crusades exerts a profound and lasting influence not least because its inspiration is timeless, not essentially historical at all, more a glittering account of the intricacies, accidents, and contradictions of the human condition itself.

It is indeed in the more basic levels that the object appears to be exerting an influence to which the experient responds.

The ability of a relatively few already powerful people or organizations to exert still further pervasive influence introduces the possibility of tyranny and misuse of power in some respects even more devastating than that accomplished by physical compulsion.

Theological education needs to take more seriously than it has that the mass media may be having a marked effect on religious faith, not just by the media's presentation of religious issues, but by the influence the media are exerting on perceptions of social reality within which religious faith is understood and experienced.

Perhaps only Bob Dylan exerted a more profound influence on the era.

The leavening influence of Jewish communities, exerted upon the crude societies of medieval Europe, is becoming more clearly recognized.

To the Christian, Jesus is more than a great, good man who has exerted an influence upon the course of Western civilization.

Whether liberty within science will exert an influence toward political liberty is more questionable.

It is probable rather that these books only gathered up and channeled one aspect of Chinese religion present in Confucius» day, that which has usually had official sanction; and thereby gave it a definiteness of form which enabled it to exert its influence more effectively than would otherwise have been possible.

«Although intrauterine experiences can exert influence on the infant's subsequent development, the experiences it has during the ten months or so after birth are of greater experience... a continuing symbiotic relation between mother and child designed to endure an unbroken continuum until the infant's brain weight has more than doubled.»

Your milk storage capacity can also influence your baby's need to feed overnight as well as your ongoing milk supply: a mother with a large storage capacity has the room in her milk - making glands to comfortably store more milk at night before it exerts the amount of internal pressure needed to slow her milk production.

The northern counties form a frontier zone in which events and policies in neighbouring states can sometimes exert more of an influence on the day - to - day lives of its residents than those emanating from elsewhere.

Whoever exerts the most influence long term, will have those markets more open to them.

Worse still, it finds that «more than half of those are affiliated to Unite, the giant Left - wing union which is targeting as many seats as possible to exert maximum influence over Ed Miliband.»

The governors» landscape is all the more important when you consider that the winners in 2010 will exert considerable influence over the decennial redistricting process that will reshape the lines of congressional and legislative districts across the country.

Yet in terms of policy payoffs, evidence suggests that the more proportional dispersal of parliamentary seats in the Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales has created the conditions for non-government parties to exert influence, particularly in times of minority government.

In this way, he could have exerted just as much influence over government policy, his integrity would have remained intact and there would almost certainly be substantially more Lib Dem MPs than there are in parliament today.

Some bacteria exerted a powerful influence, while others had far more subtle effects.

But because budget bills are an ideal way for members to exert their influence, it's more likely that there will be winners and losers among agency programs.

Prion mechanisms could be more common than previously suspected and exert an important influence on the rates and mechanisms of evolutionary change.

In addition, both internal variability and aerosol forcing are likely to affect tropical storms in large part though changes in ocean temperature gradients (thereby changing ITCZ position and vertical shear), while greenhouse gases likely exert their influence by more uniformly changing ocean and tropospheric temperatures, so the physics of the problem may suggest this decomposition as more natural as well.

Instead, opportunities people wished they would have taken, but didn't, exert a far more powerful influence on people in the long term, sometimes burdening them for years.

(These nitrogen - based protein byproducts)-- frequently spoken of as toxins — float about through the body and may exercise more or less of a deleterious influence upon the system, or, being temporarily deposited, may exert some specific or local influence that calls for their speedy removal.»

Not only does milk thistle exert activity through inhibiting proliferation and angiogenesis, but also in response to epigenetic - influences — making it... Read More»

More politically - minded viewers will notice parallels to current events (such as California's Prop. 8) and appreciate the film on that level (the film speculates that, if Milk had lived, he could have gone on to exert some positive influence in the White House during the 1980s).

More games that «exerted influence on the video game industry or on popular culture and society in general» have entered the Hall of Fame.

Meanwhile, inclusion riders can exert influence in parts of the industry that are otherwise taking a more passive approach.

And since school - board elections are typically low - turnout affairs, organized and energized interests, like teacher unions, can exert even more influence on the outcome than their raw numbers would suggest.

Our faculty have produced research that has exerted enormous influence on the field, from Jeanne Chall's research on literacy, which shaped the way millions of students are taught reading; to Howard Gardner's brilliant depiction of multiple intelligences, which changed the way we think of ourselves, our children, and our students; to Gerald Lesser's shaping of Sesame Street, which reaches more than 150 million viewers in more than 150 countries.

A principal exerts no more important influence upon the school than by visibly being the «leading learner.»

The superintendents do not want «supplement, not supplant» reform to be an opportunity for the Dept. of Education to «exert unprecedented influence over the more than 90 percent of K - 12 funding generated by state and local districts.»

It has been exerting its influence on the political landscape since its beginnings more than four decades ago.

As neuroscientists learn more about brain development, chemistry, and structures their findings are exerting an influence on the education and care of young children.

In effect, while principals and their co-leaders exert a significant influence on teacher access to professional learning opportunities, their power to influence the quality and impact of those activities on teacher knowledge and skills may be more limited.

Precious metals prices seem to exert little to no influence Read more -LSB-...]

In episode 1 it's more about swaying conversations and exerting influence on supporting characters, but there is one major choice early on that determines Falcone's attitude toward Bruce Wayne.

The player's reaction to the flame demon that possesses him and his tendency to reject its influence or allow it to consume his soul to gain more power will also significantly affect his experience during the adventure and exert a strong influence on his relationships with his companions and his approach to combat.