Transport developments will be no less powerful an influence in shaping city development in the next century.
The Anglophobic France, for instance, saw English-speaking Ugandan-backed Tutsis as a threat, and believed their arms sale would be an opportunity to expand French influence in Africa.
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"Jack Ma may not be running the day-to-day activities... he will still have an influence in where the company should be headed, " Frederick Wong, executive director of Avant Capital Management (HK).
Already, the major industries that would be most affected have spent heavily in an effort to influence lawmakers.
Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez has aggressively tried to influence the different countries of the region and pretends to be the regional leader that will put an end to American influence in the region.
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Communication cannot be an end in itself, but a means of exerting American influence globally in support of its national interests.
Because Bahrain hosts a U.S. naval presence, and because it has been able to cultivate an international image as an ally against radicalism even as it remains a theocratic state, there is an assumption that the American influence in Bahrain could be decisive.
And if he turned out to be Congo-Brazzaville's kingmaker, he would have great influence in an oil-rich country with a major port on the Atlantic coast.
While antismoking campaigns which focus on teens may be useful, an important aim is to determine the ways in which these specific genes influence progression to begin smoking, and to further evaluate whether medications currently on the market which reduce cigarette cravings have any influence on these high risk genes.
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But the industrial use of hydrogen as an energy carrier that is both clean and free of foreign influence seems to be gaining favour in business circles.
In other words, bribery should be a blatant act of money being used to influence someone in office and not some conspiracy theory that an expensive dinner and watching football from box seats was overly influential.
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Acknowledging the influence of what he terms a nervous complaint "I sometimes can be found behaving in an erratic fashion" this abundantly intelligent but troubled man lives inside his head, writing books that no one wants to look at, let alone publish.
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