Sentences with phrase «little influence among»

New York State GOP Chairman Ed Cox has indicated he would prefer to see Staten Island Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis succeed Mr. Grimm, but he has little influence among the local party leaders who will pick the candidate for the special election.

Although our efforts have had little influence among mainstream economists or governments, groups in ten or more other countries have developed similar measures.

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Blood Feast is venerated by gorehounds and has a «so bad it's good» reputation among horror buffs, but what's really breathtaking about it is its shameless demonstration that, in the grand cinematic scheme, artistic merit, cultural influence, and commercial success have precious little to do with each other.

As an historian, I was particularly pleased to see how the editor saw fit to include an historical review of the period since the 1950s, mentioning, among other things, Arthur Bestor's great book, Educational Wastelands: The Retreat from Learning in Our Public Schools, the influence of Sputnik, and (a little later) the Great Society legislation, to underscore the national commitment to education for everyone.

Among our cases, Forest Elementary provides the clearest example of a school in which the overall pattern of leadership distribution corresponded to an additive pattern, at least in a formal, bureaucratic sense (teachers attributed little actual influence to those in formal positions of leadership responsibility).

[2] Despite this influence and importance, until recently Greenberg has been little discussed among philosophers of art.

Knowing little about Wills law, they tried to claim that Wills could be done via an algorithm but it was easily demonstrated that such a process was seriously deficient in important ways including, among others, determining capacity and the presence or lack of undue influence.

Childhood sexual abuse and childhood physical abuse are among the strongest predictors of psychiatric pathology and severity of clinical course, including suicide.2,4 - 14 The influence of childhood sexual abuse and childhood physical abuse on psychological development is thought to be mediated directly by changes in cognitive processing of threatening stimuli,15 - 18 resulting in enhanced negative affect to daily life stressors.19 Although there is a clear link between early - life adversity and psychopathology, very little is known about the molecular mechanisms responsible for the long - lasting behavioral consequences of childhood abuse.

Among young adults, cohabitation may be seen as an acceptable way to «try out» a marriage and the couple's compatibility before a legal commitment is made (Kline et al., 2004), and parents tend to have little influence on the choice of dating and marital partners as well as the timing of marriage.

Despite indications that adolescents recognize each other's physical maturation, little is known about how a girl's reputation among peers might be influenced by signs of pubertal development.