In the normal course of events, the budget committee has little to say about tax preferences, although as a member of the Finance Committee, which does have jurisdiction, Conrad is not without influence.
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It has caught our attention, thanks to the still unexplained activities of Democratic National Committee fund-raiser John Huang (although he is not the only one) that people without a vote are not without influence in the American political process.
Without the influence of testosterone in the womb, a fetus will develop into a girl.
Bolt was keen to emphasise that all of his achievements have come without the influence of drugs.
But the Lord Chief Justice's principal private secretary Laurene McAlpine has said courts must act without external influence.
The credit crunch shrank interest rates significantly to the dismay of millions of borrowers who followed the advice of professionals or saw the risk without external influence.
However, Laurene McAlpine said courts must act without external influence.
Ms McAlpine said public representatives were entitled criticise decisions made by the courts, but that it was "important that judges should be free to act independently and without improper influence".
But they reckon without the influence of his determined buddy Costa, who puts all his considerable social networking skills to promoting what turns out to be the ultimate house party.
But look at it another way: Given the aggression with which the game is played, and the tendency toward opponent objectification that Oppenheimer cited, can you imagine what the game at all levels might become without the influence of Christianity within it?
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It is self-defeating, since a country without allies forfeits influence the more it stands alone.
Without his restraining influence, violence would have been far more frequent.
That's why, working with people like Dick Durbin, who's been vocal on this for a long time, we've got to confront the gaping loophole that the Supreme Court recently opened in our campaign finance laws that allowed special interests to spend without limit to influence American elections.
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Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
As London's have demonstrated since 2000, elected mayors tend to accumulate influence even without being formally given powers.
The village chief and the local schoolmaster can often influence votes without visibly campaigning: a hint of new buildings or wells can make up wavering minds.
Groups that make what the city calls "independent expenditures" on political campaigns offer a way to influence elections without following the city's strict spending and contribution limits for individual candidates and traditional political-action committees.
The Security Council this evening declared its support for a free and fair presidential election in Lebanon conducted according to Lebanese constitutional rules devised without foreign interference or influence and, in that connection, called upon all remaining foreign forces to withdraw from Lebanon.
Going private will allow them to re-brand and rebuild without the market's influence and ever-watchful eye.
This market presents a huge opportunity because cosmetics sell directly to consumers without the cost-controlling influence of an insurance company.
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You can't wield the knife again without losing global reach and influence.
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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" Even the barren Moon is essential: "Without the Moon's steadying influence, the Earth would wobble like a dying top ...
The Conservatives want the new independent self-regulatory body to be governed by a board which would be set up "without any direction from industry or influence from government".
The independent self-regulatory body would be governed by an independent board "appointed in a genuinely open, transparent and independent way, without any direction from industry or influence from government".
" Even the barren Moon is essential: "Without the Moon's steadying influence, the Earth would wobble like a dying top.... The Moon's steady gravitational influence keeps the Earth spinning at the right speed and angle to provide the sort of stability necessary for the long and successful development of life.
So long as people are still free to choose without penalty, they would call it influence, not power.
They have seen their economic power and their influence in the region expand without the bureaucracy in Brussels.
"Every effort should be made to get a second resolution passed that would approve a full-scale monitoring mission and, simultaneously, influence all groups in Syria without exception into cooperating for the sake of implementing the Annan plan, " Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a news conference Friday in Moscow.
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Online court records show Knafelc pleaded guilty in 2010 in Pennsylvania to charges of theft, driving under the influence, child endangerment and driving without a license.
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