Word Finder - influence

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The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.

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I have absolutely no influence over him.

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An action exerted by a person or thing with such power on another to cause change.

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I'm not able to exercise influence over him.

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A person or thing exerting such power or action.

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He has been a great influence on the voters during the elections.

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An element believed to determine someone's character or individual tendencies, caused by the position of the stars and planets at the time of one's birth.

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The action of flowing in; influx.

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Electrostatic induction.

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To have an effect on by using gentle or subtle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to persuade or induce.

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I must admit that this book influenced my outlook on life.

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To exert, make use of one's influence.

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To cause to flow in or into; infuse; instill.

I'm a bad influence on you.

He can influence opinion at the highest level.

You become the only person in the universe that can influence him.

On the other hand, how could Alex be a positive influence if his Uncle truly felt that way?

I'm not even sure how to influence someone.

Dracula, the best vampire book ever written, had a strong influence on all modern vampire tales.

You don't want me to influence it.

You know me well enough to know that what other people think doesn't influence how I behave.

The article will influence public perception and build awareness of disability issues.

Because young people generally understand and utilize technology better than older people, we will see a shift in power and influence toward the young.

I can influence everything on this side of the Mississippi.

The discussion will probably influence the outcome.

You did not choose her title, her armies, her gold, her influence, her banishment, her death.

Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind.

To his delight they were now plainly visible, which proved that they had passed beyond the influence of the magical Valley of Voe.

Just influence the investigators and be done with it.

What have been your main musical influences, and which bands can you hear your influence in?

Without a doubt, the fact that the babies were healthy had major influence on his mood.

But he obviously idolized Martha and she seemed to be a calming influence on him.

Computers, especially computers of the future, will have no trouble handling all the variables that influence nutrition, though there will be millions of them.

Mayyyybe… she's your soul-mate and that is why you cannot influence her.

In Britain, finally, the church, or rather the churches, wield tremendous influence in all spheres of life.

Public anxiety about the potentially corrupting influence of the new language was constant from its birth.

I simply want to know if it is she that can't be influenced or only I that can't influence her.

Oh…sorry. What would I influence her to do?

It was the effect of undue influence, suspicious circumstances, fraud and mistake.

First, we need to decide whether it can move beyond the role of passive recipient of management information to exert active influence over company policy.

Cosmology, for instance, is entirely founded on observation of a system over which we apparently can exercise no direct influence.

How much of my delight in all beautiful things is innate, and how much is due to her influence, I can never tell.

Damian sought out Sofi, both for her calming influence and any tidbits of what she might've Seen.

While contemplating whether Freckles would be worth having to influence the other three or not, Jackson caught sight of someone in his peripheral vision.

Nothing in life seemed to him of much importance, and under the influence of the depression that possessed him he valued neither his liberty nor his resolution to punish his wife.

And again, under Helene's influence, what had seemed terrible now seemed simple and natural.

The bond creates more than dependency; it gives you a helluva lot of influence over him.

His influence in the university was less assured.

The Crusades had a favourable influence on the intellectual state of the Western nations.

He had learned under Gabriel's tutelage how to influence them to forget.

Jackson decided if things didn't turn soon he would have to influence her.

First he couldn't influence her, and now his fangs had failed him.

It remains to trace the influence, direct or indirect, of the poet on the novelist.

In Russia her influence has been greater.

B.C. there were still traces of Phoenician influence (Cicero, Pro Scauro, 1 5, 4 2, 45).

It is now known that the influence of Nelson and of the British ambassador, Sir William Hamilton, and Lady Hamilton precipitated the rupture between Naples and France.

About the same time Mancini was informed by the Italian agent in Cairo that Great Britain would be well disposed towards an extension of Italian influence on the Red Sea coast.

Like Arabia and similar countries, it could exercise a great momentary influence in history and produce a sudden change throughout the world; but afterwards it would sink into local insignificance.

In this capacity he exercised a wide influence on local opinion, and the revolt of the Newcastle electorate in later years against doctrinaire Radicalism was largely due to his constant preaching of a broader outlook on national affairs.

The fame of Boetius increased after his death, and his influence during the middle ages was exceedingly powerful.

His circumstances peculiarly favoured this influence.

It was evident that this strange, strong man was under the irresistible influence of the dark, graceful girl who loved another.

In England, Robert Recorde had indeed published his mathematical treatises, but they were of trifling importance and without influence on the history of science.