Print titles have little influence in the countryside because of high levels of illiteracy.
Large members such as Germany and France may not be prepared to cough up further if they have little influence on the peripheral countries' spending habits.
Mr Powell was seen as getting on poorly with other cabinet members, especially Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary, and Dick Cheney, the vice-president, and he often seemed to have little influence on Mr Bush.
While the case highlights state differences in the recognition of same-sex marriages, analysts have said it will probably have little influence outside Maryland because federal law allows states to ignore how other states define marriage.
He says the bigger problem is that African nations have very little influence over the flows of global trade.
Syndicate members have little direct influence over how the horse is managed, but as its legal owners, they split any prize money between them, and also divide up any profits generated by selling it.
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.
In the real world, these individuals have little power to influence FOMC decisions or better jobs data.
Consequently, Israel's governments have little ability to influence how foreign governments treat it, regardless of who forms those governments.
Changes in teaching methods or technology "have had very little influence, " says Henry Levin, an economist and expert on learning at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Of course, being able to get a message out via Tweet is a little easier when you have serious influence.
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The sounds of James Brown, Little Richard and Sun Ra do have an authentic influence on Khan and his band, but there's a modern energy, too.
The coalition-builders have about two weeks to forge alliances and senior cardinals who may themselves have little chance of becoming pope can still exert a considerable influence over the others.
This is also the message that I have tried to convey in a few cases where I had a little influence.
But how do people we know little more about than the parts they play on screen have influence over the things we watch, the decisions we make and the people we become?
The committee found the evidence against Lord Truscott "so clear and so plentiful that we have little doubt that Lord Truscott was advertising his power and willingness to influence Parliament in return for a substantial financial inducement".
Fewer dumb aristocrats have got to top jobs on the basis of little education and much family influence.
That means that even the most strenuous international diplomacy might influence North Korean behavior only on the margins and will have little effect on how this situation ultimately plays out.
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