Cardinal Ortega and his bishops saw an opportunity for the church to regain influence by helping the government.
Although Mr Malik was a Labour Party member, the WAO found no evidence of "inappropriate" influence by Labour ministers.
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Meaning I guess that he hopes the media and politicians under attack will fight this money influence by exposure and transparency.
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After months of influence by the American's more spontaneous behaviour, most presentations are now oral, and a one-page memo then summarises proceedings.
For Nepal, balancing India's influence by engaging more with China is attractive.
That hits exactly where companies like Topsy and Klout will have to differentiate, and measure influence by more than mere quantity (or digital noise-making).
They can exert great influence by understanding their target markets better.
In the freewheeling era that followed, he made a fortune selling cars and parlayed those riches into political influence by buying into Russian media outlets.
Though his hit-making slowed down, mainly thanks to changing tastes in country music, he became a revered elder statesman, often credited as an influence by generations that followed.
But in spite of this power shift, South Korea's senior citizens have just demonstrated their influence by forcing the resignation of one politician who failed to show them respect.
Yahoo wants to prove the influence by comparing different ads in similar demographics, and comparing data from a server address, a zip code, and credit card info from a purchase.
Exclusively designed with Mediterranean influence by designer Hablinski Manion, the property offers rare finishes and fixtures at every turn, pairing beautifully with its exposed beam high ceilings and arched windows and doors.
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In recent years, an increasingly confident Moscow has used Gazprom to assert its authority over Russia's former sphere of influence by offering heavily subsidized gas to ex-Soviet countries such as Ukraine and Belarus.
Forbes Insights partnered with Appinions, an innovative data-mining company that measures influence by extracting and aggregating opinions from over 5 million sources including blogs, social networks, forums, and newspaper and magazine articles.
The IOC is delaying negotiations on a new TV deal until after the vote, to avoid suggestions of influence by American network NBC, who prefer Chicago or, failing that, Rio because of its time zone.
The Russian plan is rather simple: Punish countries that refuse to come under its influence by building new gas pipelines that bypass them, while rewarding countries and political leaders that cooperate with Russia with lucrative energy deals.
On another front, in an extraordinary development military prosecutors at one point joined defense lawyers in objecting to the colonel appointed as the presiding judge, because they said he was too subject to influence by the chain of command.
But ultimately, the competitive difference will be made by the level of organizational influence exerted by the data scientist to make the information from the data actionable.
This isn't to say that campaigns should ignore social media, or that efforts by voters to influence the election by organizing online are pointless.
But club officials worry that non-environmental groups could influence elections by backing petition candidates.
Internet users are, for the most part, unaware of the enormous influence wielded by the hypergiants.
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You ignore the immense influence wielded by big business over the policies of governments the world over.
Two marketing professors say their research shows that using online social networks can influence behavior by reducing self-control.
The bill calls for an assessment of U.S. policies that influence decisions by foreigners about investing in the United States.
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How will they influence efforts by the developing countries to move further up the value chain by producing processed goods rather than just commodities?
Among European leaders, he can continue to promote his leadership pretensions, and mitigate the loss of influence caused by Britain's absence from the euro.
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See, " A Troubling Influence" by Frank J.
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They decry the inordinate amount of power and influence held by our very rich and our corporate enterprises and the power of lobbyists to further their goals in a Congress that is essentially for sale.
They intended to influence people by these various largesse of trips to Scotland or wherever you may be going, by making contributions, by providing space for events whether in restaurants or in sky boxes at athletic contests.
At first, they did so by viciously attacking Congresswoman Michele Bachmann - even though she was just one of five legislators who asked for investigations into these seeming influence operations by inspectors general of five federal agencies.
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