"Study after study has shown that... on-screen smoking has a powerful influence on behavior, " Fiore says.
The support of loved ones provides the earliest and often most powerful influence on our lives.
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Recognition that the halo effect has a powerful influence on business has been relatively recent.
Recent experiments at CERN have shown the possible powerful influence of cosmic rays on clouds and climate.
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And no amount of corporate marketing will ever compare to the powerful influence of a respected friend.
Ziggy's androgynous and otherworldly appearance had a powerful influence on pop culture and signalled a challenge of social traditions.
Opinion polls have consistently shown most Americans support more gun control measures, but the firearms lobby wields a powerful influence over lawmakers.
Another powerful influence is Institutional Shareholder Services, a corporate governance group.
"We are starting to believe that what you think has a powerful influence on symptoms, " says Harvard psychiatrist Arthur Barsky, who has tested CBT.
Alleged conflicts by consultants can take several forms, but they all come back to the powerful influence consultants wield over investment officials at pension funds.
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In professional-service conglomerates, old-fashioned networking is a powerful influence on business.
In considering the effectiveness of any medicine, conventional or herbal, it's important to remember that the placebo effect, or the patient's desire to believe in a cure, can have a powerful influence.
But if we believe that television can be a powerful influence on young lives - and who doesn't - then having a balance of "strong" and "gentle" characters of both sexes is important.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak apparently needed little encouragement, for he too wanted to isolate Hamas, and this prevented until recently Egypt's intelligence service, which exerts a powerful influence in Gaza, from brokering a deal.
But Wilkinson believes the powerful influence of the Premier League coupled with infighting at the FA diluted his blueprint's effectiveness - and meant that England failed to make the most of the so-called "golden generation".
And with a big presence now in Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan, and India, Bubble Motion is benefiting from star power there. 1, 000 Asian celebrities use the product and they have a powerful influence on the rest of the population.
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McKinsey, the man whose name hangs over its front door (and who died young of pneumonia in 1937), but Marvin Bower (born 1903), the most powerful influence on the firm in the 65 years from James McKinsey's death to his own, at the age of 99, in 2003.
Aware of the powerful influence that new media such as online forums and the blogosphere had in both inciting and dampening violence in the last election, Nairobi's iHub, a hothouse for tech innovation in Kenya, is piloting an initiative called Umati, which is monitoring and reporting hate speech that could trigger violence this year.
Transport developments will be no less powerful an influence in shaping city development in the next century.
This is especially true when companies supported by subsidies become powerful enough to influence governments to perpetuate their support.
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The Workspace Association of New York represents over 2 million square feet in the Tri-State area alone, managing a powerful center of influence.
Social approval and derision are the most powerful forms of influence.
Critics on the left are more inclined to complain that pressure groups exaggerate inequalities by giving those better-organised (ie, the rich and powerful) an influence out of all proportion to their actual numbers.
In industrialized nations undue influence is often legally exercised by powerful private interests, which in turn influence the nation's regulations, policies and laws.
The point is especially powerful if one considers the influence that some of the other great philosophical defenders of liberty have had in the past.
The construction magnate and his powerful board are able to wield influence with banks and allow Real to secure credit on favorable terms which, combined with a lucrative domestic television rights deal, puts them in a stronger financial position.
Gun-control groups have gained political influence but they face a powerful pro-gun lobby, led by the National Rifle Association, which insists it has the constitution on its side.
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It is still the most powerful nation in terms of its alliances and its influence around the world.
"He has used his considerable influence in the world's most powerful parliament for the betterment of this island, " he said.
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