The vacuum created by an American departure would force nations like Bahrain and Qatar to seek new military protectors, either by submitting to the influence of bigger regional powers or by reaching out to China.
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My take: A likely contributor but perhaps with a bigger influence on institutional investors than retail investors.
"He'll have much bigger influence than most governors if he wants to continue to play on the national scene, " said Charlie Black, a Republican strategist.
REI's bigger influence, however, has come from funneling money to radical groups via the Conservation Alliance, a foundation it created with Patagonia, The North Face and Kelty in 1989.
The precise way in which being a bigger child might influence the development of diabetes is unknown.
The firm's influence in poor countries is also bigger than it first appears.
Unfortunately, the Free Democrats will be lucky once again to wield patchy influence in the shadow of a bigger partner.
This suggests that the current video explosion will be a minor influence in 2008, but perhaps a bigger one four years later.
And as firms grow bigger, they may reduce the influence of reckless producers.
Yet the bigger threat to its ambitions to reassert regional influence lies in its own attitude towards the neighbours.
He says the bigger problem is that African nations have very little influence over the flows of global trade.
It has had an influence on countries' behaviour in the past and could play a bigger role in the future.
While India produces more films and China has bigger studios, the industry based in this sprawling US state has an unmatched influence across the globe.
Some galaxies contain black holes with billions of times the mass of the sun, occupying a volume no bigger across than the orbit of Neptune around our solar system but extending their influence through a cosmic bubble 30 million light years across.
Women, by nature, tend to struggle with self-doubt more than our male counterparts and, as a consequence, are more reticent when it comes to stepping into bigger roles, advocating for ourselves and taking the risks needed to grow our influence and impact.
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If marketing plays a bigger role in marketing analytics and social media activities as noted above, this should influence how marketing and sales interact.
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