Norquist may have had influence over the direction of super PAC funding, but he didn't hold the purse strings.
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Mr Feith has denied that his men had any influence over the gathering or analysis of intelligence.
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We have had outsized influence over world affairs for a century now.
But the church has never had much influence over voting patterns.
Since the nineteen-seventies, and the construction of the Trans-Alaska oil pipeline, major oil producers had enjoyed extraordinary influence over Alaskan lawmakers, and had pretty much dictated the terms on which they did business with the state.
But other Commonwealth monitors, this time accompanied by a team from America's International Republican Institute, had far less influence over Kenya's election in 1992, where they were allowed in only late in the day.
"Maybe he downplayed the significance of the influence he had over other riders, " Mr. Papp said.
Bath's play in the first half was electric and their offloading and back-line moves had Brian Ashton's influence all over it.
Mr Spitzer claims that the bankers on this committee would have been reluctant to complain about Mr Grasso's excessive pay, since they had a clear incentive to get along with him: he had a regulatory role and some influence over other regulatory bodies, such as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Mr Morre told BBC London through his solicitors that he had "no control, influence or connection" over CMS Mortgages.
She pointed to a WAO finding that it had seen no evidence of "inappropriate" political influence over funding decisions.
Originally, when the decision was made to appoint a single damages expert, Donziger had worried that in Ecuador anyone with that much influence over the outcome of a multibillion-dollar case could be bought.
If it had written him off, it would have lost all influence over him, Mr Wolfowitz said.
For many months there had been concerns about the influence the 'Ndrangheta might be exerting over the city council, the BBC's Alan Johnston in Rome reports.
This had the unintended consequence of dramatically increasing the influence of the patent bar over patent law.
Being subsumed by a Northrop Grumman or Lockheed Martin would mean far less influence for Britain over its defence industry than it would have had through a BAE-EADS merger.
Former PM Gordon Brown, the second commissioner replied, had "without any proper consultation renounced the ability of Downing Street to have any influence" over appointments.
It has been a struggle to alter that: Bolivia's political elite fought hard against the loss of their direct influence on the judicial system, and in-fighting over the appointment of judges to the Supreme Court had threatened to mar the change.
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