While America was preoccupied with Afghanistan, and later Iraq, China took advantage of Washington's new focus to minimise tension with the superpower and enhance its standing and its influence with its Asian neighbours.
America pursues al-Qaeda in these areas at the risk of weakening its influence with a crucial ally.
Meanwhile, the egg industry has used its influence with a sympathetic Congress to strike down financing for the Salmonella-tracking programme.
By expanding overseas, Simon is able to take advantage of its influence with retailers that covet locations in Simon's top-producing malls.
U.S. calls for China to use its influence with North Korea and Iran are just the most obvious examples of where Washington is asking for Beijing's cooperation.
And the United States is interested in getting Damascus to use its influence with Hamas, which Syria views as a legitimate resistance movement and whose leaders take refuge in Syria.
Its long-delayed program to replace aging air fleets was in disarray, its senior officers had been largely excluded from joint commands, and its influence with political leaders had been eclipsed by the Army and Navy.
This is especially true since Moscow could use its influence with the three other successor states, or with former Soviet republics that are non-successors, to deploy covertly internetted defensive capabilities that Russia itself would be unable to have under the ABM Treaty.
At the same time, the United States must set an example through its own aid practices and must use its influence with Bonn to ensure that the struggling nations of Central and Eastern Europe are not abandoned as a result of a fixation with aid to the Soviet Union.
That would provide the traditionalist alliance - with its ruling council of overseas archbishops - with a boost to its standing and influence in the "mother" Church of England it could barely have imagined a week ago.
Yet the Bush administration may have undermined its potential influence on German economic policymaking with its decision to snub the German chancellor because of his views on Iraq and the anti-American comments of a minister he subsequently sacked.
As businesses close it is the Camorra with its cash that grows in influence.
The Americans want Pakistan to use its unique influence with the Taliban to secure his extradition.
For all his prowess in the City, he never identified with its overprivileged elite, whose influence he saw as largely corrosive.
In the film, with its thematic concern with the freeing influence of music, Tarek insists that Walter listen to Afro-pop star Fela Kuti.
Criteria wants influence to go with its shareholdings.
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But, with the exception of tiny Bahrain, its influence is limited.
Perhaps the most remarkable fact about Mr Volcker is that he has spent much of his career dealing with Wall Street without being captured by its influence.
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Wyoming, with its three electoral votes, has no more influence over the selection of the president or on the positions taken by candidates than it would with one vote.
Thompson was genuinely in love with Thailand and its people, but any political influence he may have possessed was lost when Pridi was forced out by his strongman rival, Phibun Songkhram, in 1947.
For more than three decades, he has been the emir of a kingdom with its palace in the town of Zaria, and influence over a much larger region known as Zazzau.
Among Mexico's intelligentsia, with its navel-gazing tendency to bemoan the malign influence of the United States on every facet of Mexican life, Mr Aguilar Zinser stood out as an internationalist and an enthusiast for democracy in an almost American mode.
Meanwhile, companies like Vale, he said, do business in countries like Brazil where the government is a heavy influence and its interests may not align with those of shareholders.
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But Mexico's newspaper market is still marked by its history: with many small papers, none has much influence among the mass of voters.
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.
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Westhoff populates his book with a multitude of such punchy nuggets as he chronicles the rise and relevance of southern hip-hop, a subgenre whose influence is often forgotten by mainstream critics more familiar with its coastal brethren.
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It proved an commercial and style success as its influence spread to the area of modern cultural arena, with British "Mods" wearing it as a trademark item as they faced up to their "Rocker" rivals.
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Yet ICBC has limited influence with Standard Bank, with only a couple of directors on its board.
For its part Syria is striving to obtain international recognition for Hamas in the hope that it would grant Damascus a position of influence in any future diplomatic process thanks to its close relationship with the Palestinian group.
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