Similarly, the Republican standard-bearer could surely observe that there are statutes and administrative guidelines designed to protect individuals and the government from the possibility that foreign associates may seek to exerciseinfluenceon family members, friends, colleagues or their federal agencies that employ them.
The State will have to exercise a guiding influenceon the propensity to consume partly through its scheme of taxation, partly by fixing the rate of interest .
The researchers found that those rated more dominant and prestigious were also rated as more influential, and had more actual influenceon the exercise.
And let's require lobbyists who exercise such influence to publicly disclose all their contacts on behalf of their clients, whether they are contacts with my administration or contacts with Congress.
The allies, he believes, would be unwise to expect the Iranians to exercise a calming influence over Iraqi Shias while they haul Iran over the coals on the nuclear issue.
Their true worth should mainly be judged not by the eloquence of their set-piece contributions on the floor of the House nor even by such influence as they exercise over great national policies.