On the contrary, it still has influence over the Russians, who remain surprisingly sensitive about their international image.
"It's my concern that he's going to see the person who has influence over him, " defense attorney Thomas Walsh said.
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But a sponsor is usually someone at a high level in the organization who has influence over the decision-making as it relates to employees and employee placement.
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Intel has deep influence over major OEMs such as Dell, HP and IBM.
Moreover, due to its footprint, the company has tremendous influence over a number of companies, farmers, and eventually consumers.
Certainly, no American physician has greater influence over a larger number of people.
One exception may be capital gains tax cuts, because the investor has some influence over when capital gains are realized.
There has been speculation that the Pope's failing health means he has less influence over the day-to-day work of the Vatican.
Gallacher told the BBC that ex-Wales coach Gareth Jenkins could return to the region, but not in a capacity that has any influence over coaching.
The mayor has limited influence over the police: he can appoint people to the board that oversees and sets targets for the Metropolitan Police, but unlike New York's mayor, he cannot boss the police chief around.
Moreover, the oil industry is in private hands, so even if the government in Moscow wanted to put a lid on production, it has less influence over its oil companies than OPEC governments have over theirs.
Mr Kirchner has amassed formidable influence over Argentina's courts, media, legislature and provincial governors.
These members also worry that the Muslim Brotherhood, a controversial group with a violent past, has an undue influence over the mosque.
Today, the global market has a greater influence over the price of milk because the United States exports almost 15% of what farms produce.
The Chinese state also still has a broad influence over business.
Wyoming, with its three electoral votes, has no more influence over the selection of the president or on the positions taken by candidates than it would with one vote.
While the scientific opinions of an obscure legislator from rural Georgia may seem of little import, he is a member of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology and therefore has an outsized influence over how we invest in the future.
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The currency peg of the Yuan against the dollar, which China has enforced with varying degrees of exactitude over the past few decades, has helped the Chinese government exert greater influence over the growth and contours of its economy.
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In some ways Mr Wilders has already exerted his influence over the next government, as other parties have started to adopt his ideas.
But the church has never had much influence over voting patterns.
Someone or something is using me to untangle the tangled plot over whose direction I have as little influence as the pen has over the poets who wield it, or man over the gods who manipulate him, or the knife over the murderer.
The Kremlin has established direct or indirect influence over most of Russia's TV stations in recent years.
True, America's influence over Israel has never been as great as many Arabs would believe, yet the Clinton administration has been notably less willing than its predecessors to get tough with Israel.
Doesn't that inevitably change the influence the United States has over the way other countries' economies deal with us?
Despite his lack of formal training in Islamic law, Mr. Yerushalmi has come to exercise a striking influence over American public discourse about Shariah.
Mr Feith has denied that his men had any influence over the gathering or analysis of intelligence.
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British politics has already been tarnished by scandals over influence-peddling and expenses.
As a result of the tremendous influence the money management industry has over regulators, doomed financial products and unsavory sales practices persist.
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This was echoed by another headteachers' union leader, John Dunford of the Secondary Heads Association, who argued that "any sensible assessment of teachers' influence over pupils' progress has to be related to those children's own previous best".
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