• By 1936, a Senate committee investigating arms manufacturers was able to suggest that the U.S. had been drawn into the war through the influence of companies that stood to profit from it.

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  • For the time being, though, Mr Clute has chosen to press his argument for real fantasy through the skeins of theory, influence and resemblance that pull the unwitting browser through this magnificent encyclopedia.

    ECONOMIST: Fantasists

  • As interest rates approach zero, the Fed's ability to influence activity through the manipulation of short-term interest rates is diminishing, though some economists believe it could start to do more to influence medium and longer-term rates.

    ECONOMIST: That sinking feeling | The

  • "Nicholas Hawksmoor: Architect of the Imagination, " an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts through June 17, charts the ascent of his cultural influence as part of his 350th birthday celebration.

    WSJ: St. Mary Woolnoth | Nicholas Hawksmoor | Fortress of God | Masterpiece by Richard B. Woodward

  • The older son still carries influence through his control of newspapers, television and the main Iraqi sports bodies.

    ECONOMIST: Middle Eastern dynasties

  • What is more, Mr Carney will be the first governor of the Bank of England not only to have the power to set interest rates but also to directly influence the supply of credit through the newly created Financial Policy Committee.

    BBC: Protecting the new governor's lifestyle

  • In fact, the letter from the IDFA to the USDA is evidence of how well resourced special interests can have influence through access (in the letter the IDFA thanks Secretary Vilsack for the opportunity to meet with his Chief of Staff and General Counsel).

    FORBES: As Dairy Cliff Approaches, Consumers May See Milk and Cheese Prices Double

  • The ability of the Court to resolve them through an independent judicial process, free from political influence, is one of its greatest assets.

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  • "In part that's testament to the level of influence that you have when you reach millions and millions of desktops" through ownership of the Microsoft Windows PC operating system, says Knook.

    CNN: Brickbats for Bill

  • The State will have to exercise a guiding influence on the propensity to consume partly through its scheme of taxation, partly by fixing the rate of interest .

    FORBES: Greece's Disgraceful Debt Default -- and Calls to "Euthanize" Bondholders

  • Given the way that we now make our social graphs and circles of influence visible to the world through Facebook and Twitter, companies no longer have to rely on celebrities alone to spread word of their products.

    FORBES: Now That Everyone's A Celebrity, Can We All Get Endorsement Deals?

  • The Fresh Start group of Tory MPs has published a long list of powers they want repatriated back to the UK. A new pro-European grouping called the Centre of British Influence Through Europe has been established.

    BBC: The Tories on Europe - 1990s nostalgia?

  • These agencies will question not only his effective monopoly of the satellite television business, but his putative ability to influence the success of news and entertainment networks through his ability to distribute programming to millions of subscribers.

    FORBES: The Dish On Hughes

  • And the battle over gun control is now being waged through intensive media campaigns from both sides of the political spectrum to influence public opinion and to assert pressure on policy makers.

    FORBES: NRA Winning the Influence Battle Over Gun Control

  • Perhaps the company was banking on the political influence of the prominent former American officials it had indirectly hired through a firm called Amerilink to tamp down their successors' security concerns about Huawei.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Huawei? No way

  • This is the purpose of public diplomacy, which is the method through which governments can inform and influence publics all over the globe.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Public Diplomacy

  • Within a generation, he says, the influence of Spanish (distributed through Chilean television) has begun to wipe out the local tongue of the Easter Islanders.

    ECONOMIST: Language

  • Their influence should be cut back significantly through the nurturing of alternatives.

    FORBES: Sovereign Credit Ratings: Relics Of A Bygone Era

  • Through education at key points of community influence and the measured introduction of new technologies that encourage responsibility over simply charity, the Team will use its time in Hubli to affect change that is both scalable and sustainable.

    CNN: Students work to improve water quality in India

  • The quest for influence, power and control at all levels of government has long played out through large political contributions and the big bucks paid to lobbyists to accomplish special interest objectives.

    FORBES: How The Wealthy Plan to Finance The American Aristocracy With Middle Class Dollars

  • These pressures can have a substantial impact in a country like France where intellectual elites work through petitions or direct influence on the government citing the special status of France in the world.

    CNN: France: We're not the pacifists you think we are

  • "There's a huge synergy there, in astronomers trying to find the influence of dark matter by mapping stars and galaxies and large structures in the universe, and particle physicists trying to discover the source of that influence of dark matter through subatomic particles here on Earth, " said Jason Kalirai, deputy project scientist for the telescope at the Space Telescope Science Institute.

    CNN: How particle smasher and telescopes relate

  • Pakistan, for all its denials, can also influence the outcome in Afghanistan through the presence in its territory of the insurgent groups.

    ECONOMIST: Afghanistan

  • Mr. ROBERT MELLMAN (Economist, JP Morgan): This is an important influence that will help the economy sail through to the end of the year.

    NPR: Oil and Gasoline Prices Drop Quickly, Quietly

  • If the M23 then struck a deal involving special privileges, Rwanda would acquire, through its unofficial alliance with the M23, a wider sphere of influence in an area rich in minerals.

    ECONOMIST: Rebel allies of Rwanda are making rapid inroads

  • And also education, follow-through, to try to influence the developing partners, like China, into adopting some of the best practices.

    CNN: ASIANOW - Asiaweek

  • 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.

    WSJ: Book Review: Gravity's Engines

  • "We've gone through those data to see if we can see any influence of gravity on the positions at which they annihilate - looking for atoms to fall for the short amount of time they exist before they hit the wall, " he told BBC News.

    BBC: Antigravity gets first test at Cern's Alpha experiment

  • You sensed the influence of (coach) Martin Johnson was slowly beginning to come through.

    BBC: Irish duo vie for Lions captaincy

  • That is, Europe, through emergency, ad-hoc fiscal union, effectively removes its sovereign debt from the influence of market forces.

    BBC: Thinking outside the 1930s box

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