But it is less clear how much ability to influence events Microsoft really has.
Ignoring any media is merely ceding your ability to influence the audience engaging with that media.
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The ability to influence Ukraine's policy is seen by Russia as a test of its resurgence.
In the process, we undermine our ability to influence change to the extent we want and others need.
As they get stronger and better financed, hedge funds will increase their ability to influence and generate volatility.
Built in there is the ability to influence others, to invent and deliver on behalf of the customer.
Not only do these connections give the Iranians the ability to influence the policies of post-revolutionary allied regimes.
But his current position provides prestige and the ability to influence, the satisfactions of teaching and discourse with colleagues.
So they have less ability to influence how such data centers are run.
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Consequently, Israel's governments have little ability to influence how foreign governments treat it, regardless of who forms those governments.
Many philantropists argue that by funding universitities they buy the ability to influence policies and save them from the inside.
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The Davie Brown Index looks at multiple attributes to determine a celebrity's ability to influence brand affinity and consumer purchase intent.
To date, this accord has served as a crucial check on Moscow's ability to influence West European policies through energy-related leverage.
To the contrary, there are signs that Washington's ability to influence North Korea's behavior, including its nuclear program, is on the wane.
But with the threatened creation of a new lobbyful of Labour peers, the Lords' future ability to influence the government looks in question.
Washington wants to avoid a situation where parliaments around the world have the ability to influence, and perhaps limit, the use of force in Afghanistan.
The first thing we have to do is cut off special interests' ability to influence campaigns with their money, and increase the power of regular people.
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The Davie-Brown Index is used by marketers to determine a celebrity's (or in this case, a sports mascot's) ability to influence brand identity with the public.
At that moment, they surrendered their ability to influence NGDP.
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Tropiano said there was no doubt that as China's box-office clout increased in coming years, so too would its already substantial ability to influence Hollywood's decisions on film content.
But its ability to influence events in Iraq is hampered, not least by Arab countries' fear of the effects that Iran-sponsored Shia chauvinism might have on their own Shia minorities.
But what is truly exciting is to hear folks now talking about utilizing social in their ability to influence and interact with a smaller, but more rewarding group of people.
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The Chinese have no ability to influence the sovereignty of North Korea, no matter how much we would want to (see nuke tests in Korea in close proximity to China).
If Mr Bush is seen to be forced out by politics at home, America's ability to influence events both inside Iraq and in the wider region will be greatly undermined.
Perhaps their short histories and small, discreet offices, which seem slightly out of place when compared with their ability to influence events in the financial markets, cause a certain amount of unease.
And as Palin becomes stronger, her ability to influence the US debate in a manner that constrains Obama's freedom to intimidate Israel into allowing Iran to become a nuclear power will rise.
Rafsanjani's role as chairman of the Assembly of Experts -- which is responsible for appointing the supreme leader and monitoring his performance -- gives him the ability to influence that body's attitudes toward Khamenei.
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As interest rates approach zero, the Fed's ability to influence activity through the manipulation of short-term interest rates is diminishing, though some economists believe it could start to do more to influence medium and longer-term rates.
In the weekly Conservative Debate on 28 March 2012, Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire AM Angela Burns reiterated this message, arguing that the ability to influence decisions and access information is what makes people feel empowered.
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