Neuroses about Russia continue to exert influence in Norwegian popular culture.
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Regional powers often exert influence in the country through these various groups.
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Lobbying is just one way drugmakers and their employees can exert influence.
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Regional powers, therefore, often exert influence in the country through these various groups.
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Mr. Trump already is seeking to exert influence by seizing the presidential bullhorn.
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They need to exert influence on the Syrian regime to make sure that happens.
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But money, here, is really shorthand for a range of ways to exert influence.
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The emails they collected showed how food companies and trade associations actually exert influence.
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Russian "soft power" -- its capacity to exert influence through positive relationships and example -- is minimal.
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Trump has threatened to use trade to try to force China to exert influence over Pyongyang.
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"And if you're going to exert influence, exert it in the process of living with it."
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What follows is a look at seven cognitive biases that exert influence over financial decision-making.
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They can exert influence through politicians when public subsidies are involved, as in the Amazon case.
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The episode was the first test of Trump's ability to exert influence over his party in Congress.
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Special restrictions are used to ensure that inmates cannot exert influence or make threats beyond prison walls.
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Vice President Pence also asserted last week that China is trying to exert influence over U.S. elections.
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On August 17th he will celebrate his 90th birthday, yet he is still thought to exert influence.
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But inevitably, little by little, they will start looking for ways in which they can exert influence.
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The phone call is just one example of Obama's efforts to exert influence in the Democratic primary.
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Third, it counters efforts by China and Russia to exert influence over emerging economies via energy technologies.
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They, like no other two people on Earth (including politicians) can exert influence over the gun debate.
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"The Russians were trying to gain access, leverage to the campaign, and, presumably exert influence," Clapper said.
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Green: The reason uber-wealthy people like the Mercers become involved in politics is to exert influence.
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His purview was never entirely spelled out, which gave him latitude to exert influence without clear responsibility.
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Governments consistently try to exert influence, whether overtly or covertly, and the United States is no exception.
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He has also criticized the Chinese government's increasing efforts to exert influence over ethnic Chinese in Australia.
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This digital-age spin on diplomacy uses unilateral diplomatic affairs to exert influence over strategies of tech giants.
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With no money and no army, the government can exert influence only with the consent of regional leaders.
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Democrats have complained that he continued to exert influence behind closed doors despite the nominal leadership of Rep.
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And the Freedom Caucus may try to deploy other tactics in attempt to exert influence in the minority.
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Greenwood dismissed the notion that he was able to exert influence in Washington due to his political connections.
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The law, established in 1939, is meant to ensure that the federal government does not exert influence on elections.
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But special restrictions are used to ensure that inmates cannot exert influence or make threats beyond the prison walls.
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The US's adversaries, led by Russia, appear to be filling the vacuum and poised to exert influence over Syria.
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They are powerful people with significant wealth who are in a position to exert influence on U.S. policy makers.
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This time, House Democrats were clearly split in their calculations about the best way to exert influence over immigration.
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Still, the criminal clans still exert influence in the city and the region, and cases against them have continued.
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Then there are Trumpworld's possible ties to Russia and the possible Russian attempts to exert influence on his behalf.
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In the physical markets, Gazprom can create artificial shortages to exert influence over European nations in conflict with Russia.
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If he or others like him exert influence, it is typically close to home, often in an obscure small town.
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Ferro is still Tronc's largest shareholder, a position he has used to exert influence since stepping down from the company.
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Trump could exert influence over Tehran, it added, without alienating allies in Europe by scrapping last year's historic nuclear deal.
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Meanwhile, the field has been undermined by the food industry, which tries to exert influence over the research it funds.
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In the past decade, cyber tactics have become an essential component of Russia's efforts to exert influence over its neighbors.
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China has denied that it is using its aid to exert influence in a region blessed with significant natural resources.
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The president has made overtures toward Chinese President Xi Jinping, in order to convince him to exert influence over Pyongyang.
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Russia's ability to exert influence through shortages will only increase as weather patterns become increasingly unreliable because of climate change.
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CNN's Jeff Zeleny says Ohio is just one state where Team Trump is trying to exert influence over state party organizations.
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"I think they (the Chinese) have a coherent long-term strategy to exert influence, if not dominate the region," Felter said.
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Aside from its ever growing numbers of users, Reddit has admitted to being targeted by foreign actors attempting to exert influence.
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China's Belt and Road initiative is one way the country is trying to exert influence around the rest of the world.
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Because their orbits are so interconnected, they also exert influence over one another, shifting the way they travel around the star.
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Robots that are designed to market products, or are programmed with other biases, might exert influence over children's decisions and development.
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At the same time, the spending talks showed one way that Democrats can still exert influence even while in the minority.
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For the "haves," the hierarchy of disclosure is a way to exert influence and demonstrate power beyond one's role or title.
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As long as the Trump administration insists on not opening diplomatic relations with Tehran, Washington will have few ways to exert influence.
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Rich millennials are using social media to exert influence over fashion trends — and they're taking some of that power away from magazines.
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Sources with knowledge of the case claim Angelina continues to exert influence over the former couple's 6 kids ... and it's been effective.
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"This triple action will require consensus in this council and amongst the member states who exert influence on the ground," Salame said.
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" The result was that "the malapportionment in the Electoral College, which never had a very good justification, continues to exert influence today.
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Quick take: For centuries, rising great powers have sought to thrive and exert influence by establishing a new global framework for trade.
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"I would like the president to exert influence in the Senate to bring [a background check] bill to the floor," he added.
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But he continued to exert influence over the company and even surprised the company by appointing multiple board members in late 2017.
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They also maintain voting control over the business, which locks in their ability to exert influence, with or without their executive titles.
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He has continued to exert influence after his death, via a variety of videos and manifestos that are widely available on the Internet.
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Colonial needs permission from the energy commission to stop shipments of high-sulfur fuel, and the airlines can exert influence on that process.
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But it is well documented that Putin has created a diffuse intelligence network that allows him to exert influence while maintaining plausible deniability.
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Saudi and Iranian leaders, among others, exploit sectarian passions to exert influence, but consider developments that could diminish its relevance: Saudi-Iranian détente.
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U.S. intelligence officials suspect Russia was responsible for breaches of Democratic political organizations and state election systems to exert influence on the Nov.
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BRI's critics are right: Like the Greeks, Mongols, British and now Americans, the Chinese are establishing a basis to exert influence through commerce.
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Trump is depending on China to exert influence on North Korea that it may be reluctant, or not have the capacity, to do.
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"Employees have numerous ways to be heard and exert influence outside of board representation," the company wrote in its recommendation against the proposal.
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The specter of these failures hangs over Algeria, where the military is expected to exert influence, if not outright control, over any transition.
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But as early as last summer, Manafort was reportedly seen by the Russians as a key lever to exert influence over then-candidate Trump.
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Russia's strategy to exert influence in Africa has been underway for two years, though it's so far largely consisted of more covert, bilateral activities.
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According to court documents, the probe revealed numerous instances of bribes paid to assistants and associate basketball coaches to exert influence over student-athletes.
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"The Santa Blanca Cartel makes up some of these followers, and they leverage Santa Muerte to win over locals and exert influence," explains Strachman.
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But a billion-dollar stake would make her Twitter's largest shareholder and give her a very strong position to exert influence on the company.
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As they pivot to lead sweeping digital initiatives, tech chiefs must now be able to exert influence across the company to ensure projects succeed.
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Those who oppose the idea of Asian Kenyans becoming an ethnic group say they can exert influence on society without indulging in identity politics.
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And he continued to exert influence after Tim Cook took over the top job, although he reportedly became disaffected with Apple's direction under Cook
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And a more-involved, far-reaching government inherently has more channels of influence, providing more opportunities for people to exert influence for their own benefit.
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But it's also become increasingly active throughout the region, seeking to exert influence and forge relationships from Libya to Egypt to Saudi Arabia to Israel.
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But the incident is a reminder of the encyclopedia's authoritative role in recording history and how special interests will continue to try to exert influence.
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Every day, thousands of law firms, associations and advocacy groups seek to exert influence over policymaking away from the glare of presidential and congressional politics.
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Mr. Perkins said that the platform is one way that Cruz delegates hope to still exert influence, despite having lost the battle for the nomination.
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Hill's suspension is especially ridiculous given that all she did was point out that fans are able to exert influence over the teams they cover.
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Trump has had high hopes for cooperation from China to exert influence over North Korea, leaning heavily on Chinese President Xi Jinping for his assistance.
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In a tough year for drugmakers on Capitol Hill, Cole and the pharmaceutical giant continued to exert influence on issues like taxes and intellectual property.
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While in 1944, the US had one specific enemy in this region -- Japan -- in 2019, China seeks to exert influence over a range of countries.
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But the CFTC found that Goldman deliberately handled its trading in such a way that it could exert influence on how that rate was set.
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While the U.S. has historically leveraged formalized rules to exert influence, China is undermining this system by leveraging infrastructure as the basis of foreign policy.
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"I would hope our findings encourage a more expansive way of thinking about who should be allowed to exert influence on US public opinion," he said.
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But, the general qualities that the nodes are associated with (in this case, Cancer's sensitivity and Capricorn's need for control) definitely exert influence over your life.
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As Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman showed in his brilliant biography, Cheney deployed his masterful knowledge of policymaking to exert influence at all levels of government.
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That is likely to mean he emerges in a much weaker position, analysts said, and with even less of a mandate to exert influence over Hezbollah.
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Trump has held high hopes for greater cooperation from China to exert influence over North Korea, leaning heavily on Chinese President Xi Jinping for his assistance.
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"We never sought to exert influence over anyone at the VA. That wasn't our purpose," the men said in the joint statement, according to the Journal.
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The results can also aid searches for hidden worlds, such as the hypothetical Planet Nine (or Planet X), which exert influence over the orbits of TNOs.
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Australia and New Zealand have each separately warned China is seeking to exert influence in the Pacific through its international aid program, an allegation Beijing denies.
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An increasing number of women in Hollywood, boosted by the #MeToo movement, are starting to exert influence behind the TV camera and to break on-screen stereotypes.
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China is also applying this power in more proactive ways than ever before, to exert influence and interfere in the domestic policy and politics of our country.
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But she is slowly seeing that, even if she may want to, she cannot refuse the power to exert influence and make real change in our society
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Dimon, then, will be using the resources of the nation's largest bank to further exert influence on American society, and he won't have to run for office.
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These economic and personal ties have made Russia arguably the only ally besides Cuba that can exert influence on Mr. Maduro, said Mr. Rouvinski, the political scientist.
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The probe has revealed numerous instances of bribes paid to assistant and associate basketball coaches to exert influence over student athletes, according to court documents filed Monday.
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Months before the election, officials told them, U.S. agents learned that top Russian officials were strategizing about how to exert influence over Donald Trump through his advisers.
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Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif this week appeared resigned to the FATF blacklisting, accusing Washington of using its maximum pressure campaign to exert influence at the FATF.
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Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif this week appeared resigned to the FATF blacklisting, accusing Washington of using its maximum pressure campaign to exert influence at the FATF.
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A number of Red Bull employees who held management positions at Salzburg departed, meaning there were no longer any individuals who could exert influence on both clubs.
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The major factions of the Democratic and Republican parties have historically focused on showing strength in primaries as a way to exert influence over the parties' platforms.
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An increasing number of women in television and film, boosted by the #MeToo movement, are starting to exert influence behind the camera and to break on-screen stereotypes.
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But perhaps the biggest difference is that Wilders, as much as he may want power, may, more than anything, want to exert influence — especially on the international stage.
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And they noted that moneyed interests would always find a way to exert influence — if not through the loophole, then elsewhere, such as through unlimited independent expenditure spending.
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That case put a temporary chill on the industry, and some Washington lobbyists made up for lost business with foreign clients trying to exert influence on American politicians.
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Their idea was to use prominent photographers like Steven Meisel and Bruce Weber for ad campaigns, organize fashion shows and exert influence on which journalists would profile designers.
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There are many other unanswered questions about how reform will proceed, including how it will be funded, leaving a door open to outside groups who want to exert influence.
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On Wednesday, a report surfaced that U.S. spies collected intelligence months before the presidential election showing senior Russian officials discussing how to exert influence over Trump and his advisers.
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"It is no secret in Ukrainian political circles that the NABU was created with American help and tried to exert influence during the U.S. presidential election," Kulyk told me.
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CBN's audience, and its interests, both help explain the administration's policy moves and may exert influence on them, appealing to a president known for being easily swayed by flattery.
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The shift coincides with a growing awareness among workers that they can exert influence through public pension boards, where many of the members making investment decisions represent labor unions.
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Like her, an increasing number of women in Hollywood, boosted by the #MeToo movement, are starting to exert influence behind the TV camera and to break on-screen stereotypes.
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But in the intervening decades, that changed drastically, as Beijing sought to intimidate Taiwan, exert influence across East Asia and try to keep American ships far from Chinese shores.
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Both have zeroed in on China as a threat, accusing the country of trying to exert influence through political donations and pressure applied to Chinese students at Australian universities.
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Fitch believes the Shanghai SASAC, which owns 46% of Greenland, will continue to be the biggest shareholder and exert influence on Greenland's ability to acquire quality sites for development.
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He said the date of his return was a "fluid situation" and suggested he might seek to exert influence from India or Sri Lanka or could return to jail.
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The lobbyist's role raises new red flags for U.S. officials as they study whether and how the Kremlin might have sought to exert influence over the 2016 Trump campaign.
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But there are several other ideas Republicans want that would dramatically expand the ability of the megawealthy to exert influence over the political process, according to Malbin and Holman.
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He said that, in a phone call with Putin on Wednesday, he had urged his Russian counterpart to exert influence over the Donbass fighters and agree to relaunch peace talks.
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On Thursday, Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council (and a former CNBC contributor) sought to tamp down speculation that Trump might try to exert influence over the Fed.
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The email plays into Republican candidate Donald Trump's long-running narrative that Clinton and her entourage belong to a corrupt political elite seeking to exert influence at the Justice Department.
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Months before the presidential election, U.S. spies collected intelligence showing senior Russian officials discussing how to exert influence over Donald Trump using his advisers, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
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The less we are forced to buy the energy exports from our foreign adversaries, the worse their economy becomes, and the less they are able to exert influence over us.
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The 2202 Worldwide Threat Assessment emphasizes the security risks of Russia and China seeking to "exert influence over the politics and economies of states in all regions of the world".
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Adam Neumann may no longer be WeWork's chairman or CEO, but he could be able to continue to exert influence on the troubled real-estate company for years to come.
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If he were to try to exert exert influence on the direction of such an investigation, he could not do it without it being improper and, arguably, corrupt and illegal.
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The latest scandal to hit Zuma's office erupted when leaked emails appeared to show the extent to which his billionaire friends, the Gupta family, exert influence in South Africa's government.
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And when Westerners protest about China's thuggish efforts to exert influence abroad (and, yes, to persuade members of the diaspora to act as the party's cheerleaders), it accuses them of racism.
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As the issue sucked the oxygen out of Capitol Hill this week, the US's adversaries, led by Russia, appear to be filling the vacuum and poised to exert influence over Syria.
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Indeed, it now appears that Russia is seeking to do the same thing in Venezuela by attempting to exert influence in Central America in a clear violation of the Monroe Doctrine.
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While he acknowledged that Turkey and the Kurds were seeking to exert influence on Mosul, Jeffrey said that he was confident a governing plan could be negotiated between the various factions.
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And at a minimum, squaring off in crowded battlefields has added to heightened tensions between Russia and the United States as they each seek to exert influence in the Middle East.
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American spies collected information last summer revealing that senior Russian officials were discussing how to exert influence on Donald Trump through his aides, according to three current and former American officials.
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While the D.U.P. has been able to exert influence in London as part of Prime Minister Theresa May's governing coalition, the broader interests of the region have not always been represented.
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These developments are part of what the report's authors call the "partyification" of China, where Xi and the country's Communist Party exert influence over the nation's major economic and security organizations.
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Their major reason for existence, after all, is largely based on being reductive and divisive — arguing that the only way Muslims can protect their interests and exert influence is through violent jihad.
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While China was left out of the TPP deal, it launched its own initiatives including the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank to exert influence in Asia Pacific.
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While Trump has threatened to use trade to try to force China to exert influence over Pyongyang, he has also said he is willing to go it alone if China doesn't agree.
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Wright's main preoccupation online, though, seems to be opinionating and attempting to exert influence, specifically within Bitcoin's current debate about how to scale the system so that it can handle more traffic.
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Whereas the royal family had previously been content to leave the running of the oil industry to seasoned technocrats, the prince has sought to exert influence over the country's huge energy resources.
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Despite the infusion of $70 billion by the United States to train and equip Afghan security forces, the Taliban remain in control of or exert influence in over 40% of Afghan districts.
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The probe has revealed numerous instances of bribes paid to assistant and associate basketball coaches to exert influence over student athletes, according to documents filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
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That would be a step forward for the opposition, which has long failed to show that the political exile leadership could exert influence over insurgent groups or that they could act in concert.
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SYDNEY, March 13 (Reuters) - China's is using "pay-day loan diplomacy" to exert influence in the Pacific, the new U.S. ambassador to Australia said on Wednesday, comments that threaten to inflame regional tensions.
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Thomas Waldhauser, the U.S. commander of Africom, told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday that Russia was trying to exert influence in Libya to strengthen its clout over whoever will gain power.
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The digital platform has also sought to challenge dominant narratives in art history that find little relevance in today's world but continue to unduly exert influence over standards of beauty, sexuality, and subjectivity.
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As relations between the U.S. and Russia – the world's second largest crude producer— have hit a nadir, Saudi Arabia is a touchstone of America's limited ability to exert influence over the oil cartel.
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Western policymakers have warned that if China wins the race to fully deploy next-generation wireless technology nationwide, it would have first-mover advantage to exert influence over the broader global 25G industry.
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Mnuchin and Pompeo were adamant on Friday that the sanctions have been effective, even after the latest exchange of military strikes and even as Iran continues to exert influence in the Middle East.
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Officials who run the C.I.A. and the Defense Intelligence Agency, among others, have sought to maintain control over parts of the spying apparatus, and to exert influence with presidents and members of Congress.
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Documents like the Panama Papers and the emails released by WikiLeaks have pulled back the curtain on how the wealthy live their lives and exert influence (while also exposing email addresses and cellphone numbers).
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Apart from using the U.S. alliance to tackle its belligerent neighbour, Japan also wants the military partnership to exert influence on other parts of Asia, including the highly contested South China Sea, Inada said.
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More recently, Bavaria's economic strength has allowed the CSU to exert influence disproportionate to its size in its alliance - 'the Union' - with Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), which does not field candidates in Bavaria.
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Apart from using the U.S. alliance to tackle its belligerent neighbor, Japan also wants the military partnership to exert influence on other parts of Asia, including the highly contested South China Sea, Inada said.
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Assad is backed by Russia and Iran, and Iran-backed militia are supporting his forces across Syria, making it unlikely that the US could continue to exert influence in areas that return to government control.
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Devumi creates fake social media accounts that "celebrities, businesses and anyone who wants to appear more popular or exert influence online" can buy to hike up their number of followers, The New York Times reports.
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Allowing South Korea to have longer range missiles could put pressure on China to exert influence over North Korea, Schuster said, because the Chinese will see that as creating a potential threat to them, too.
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Its findings are the latest to support a growing view among Western security officials and cyber security researchers that Russian President Vladimir Putin has increasingly relied on hacking to exert influence and attack geopolitical foes.
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Washington Post columnist Margaret Sullivan told me, "If women are at the very top of the food chain they can exert influence, be role models, and provide encouragement and a place to turn," she said.
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"She is acting like a spoiled brat kid who has nothing else to do," Mr. Band wrote to Mr. Podesta in November 2011, after Ms. Clinton had begun to exert influence at her family's foundation.
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That changed last fall when, in quick succession, the two women thought to exert influence over Mr. Redstone — Mr. Redstone's then-girlfriend Sydney Holland and his former companion Manuela Herzer — were exiled from his home.
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And there is no sign that Iranian leaders, who proudly regard their nation as a major international player and a successor of Persian empires, will curb their attempts to exert influence across the Middle East.
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The findings are the latest to support a growing view among Western security officials and cyber security researchers that Russian President Vladimir Putin has increasingly relied on hacking to exert influence and attack geopolitical foes.
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Mr. Nakasone served as prime minister from 22000 to 22010, but continued to exert influence in Japan long after he left office and even after he was forced to relinquish his parliamentary position in 2003.
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Outside the lines, James has empowered himself like no other N.B.A. star, maximizing free-agent mobility, or the mere threat of it, in order to exert influence on almost all aspects of the Cleveland operation.
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An obvious choice as captain, he tends to exert influence not through fiery leadership but with a softer brand of diplomacy, such as insisting that a slumping teammate take a penalty kick to build his confidence.
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The change comes after Michael Mesaric, the head of Switzerland's largest refiner, Valcambi, called for a new lobby group called the International Precious Metals Refiners Council to defend refiners' interests and exert influence on the LBMA.
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It's possible that it was never a serious possibility, that Pence was trying to exert influence over Trump and get him to do what he wanted—specifically, to apologize effusively for his awful treatment of women.
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" Mr. Medcalf said the statement from the Chinese Embassy had one line that could be helpful: "China has no intention to interfere in Australia's internal affairs or exert influence on its political process through political donations.
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WASHINGTON — An Internal Revenue Service whistle-blower filed a complaint alleging that senior Treasury officials tried to exert influence over the mandatory audit of President Trump's tax returns, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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Not only had Republican elites failed to exert influence on the selection of the party's nominee, they were completely railroaded by the party's base, turning the theory of "elite dominance" in nominee selection on its head.
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His predecessor, José Eduardo dos Santos, who accumulated huge power and his family great wealth, ruled Angola from 1979, four years after independence from Portugal, and will continue to exert influence as leader of the MPLA party.
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For euro zone creditors who fear that Greece may resume its bad fiscal habits, this may seem like an advantage, since it allows them to exert influence even as their direct control through the bailout program ends.
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Going into the 2020 election, Mr. Trump can now count on a friend in Tallahassee who will be able to exert influence over the crucial redrawing of the state's congressional and legislative districts after the next census.
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Roger Goodell and Richard Ellenbogen have responded to the congressional report that found the NFL, and Ellenbogen specifically, attempted to exert influence over a $16 million grant to the National Institutes of Health for a study on CTE.
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Within Egypt, Sisi's calls for a religious revolution have made him extremely popular, but he has faced fierce resistance from Islamists, who still dominate many sectors of Egyptian civil society and exert influence in government, particularly the judiciary.
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But many Tibetans - whose tradition holds that the soul of a senior Buddhist monk is reincarnated in the body of a child on his death - suspect any Chinese role as a ploy to exert influence on the community.
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This expansion was vociferously opposed by many of the programmers working on the Bitcoin project, who worried that expanding the network quickly would make it easier for a company or government to exert influence over the decentralized system.
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Pipeline opponents say the company&aposs contributions show it&aposs trying to exert influence over the state&aposs top elected officials at the expense of landowners who don&apost want the proposed 1,179-mile pipeline running through their property.
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Tim Sweeney, co-founder of powerhouse video game developer and publisher Epic Games, has tapped into the anxiety felt by some gamers who are suspicious of Microsoft's plans to exert influence over PC gaming using its digital download store.
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Lawmakers are struggling with internal party divisions as well as their own onslaught of proposals as they try to move beyond a symbolic rebuke of Trump's interactions with the Russian president and exert influence both at home and abroad.
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Kushner himself cut no profile in public — never appeared on television or spoke at events — but he appeared to be the conduit through which competent, professional people could reach Trump and exert influence over an often amateur-hour administration.
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A special prosecution team had earlier accused Park of colluding with a friend, Choi Soon-sil, to pressure big businesses into contributing to foundations set up to support her policy and allowing her to exert influence on state affairs.
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As it continues efforts to exert influence abroad, China has begun sending troops to its first overseas military base, in the tiny East African country of Djibouti — a move that could see it outflank the U.S. in the region.
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Foreigners can also exert influence through US companies they own or control, including US-registered Limited Liability Corporations (LLCs), which can act as shell companies to disguise the source of their funds and the names of the owners or controllers.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California Public Employees' Retirement System should maintain its investments in the controversial Dakota Access oil pipeline project in order to exert influence over the companies involved, staff for the largest U.S. public pension fund said on Monday.
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Last week the U.S. military commander who oversees U.S. operations in Africa, Marine General Thomas Waldhauser, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that Russia is trying to once again "exert influence" in the country, which used to be its client state.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia sees willingness by the United States to exert influence on Syria's opposition during the Geneva talks to participate in the negotiations and ensure a fragile ceasefire in the country holds, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday.
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"No state can exert influence or give instructions because the Bank of Italy is independent, and neither can the Bank of Italy give gold to the Italian government, because that would be state aid," and therefore against EU rules, Tria added.
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Park is accused of violating her constitutional duty by colluding with a friend, Choi Soon-sil, to pressure big businesses into making contributions to foundations set up to support her policy and allowing her to exert influence on state affairs.
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Cole frets that there is now a "dangerous" feedback loop linking volatility, low interest rates and financial engineering, and estimates that there is more than $2tn in strategies that both exert influence over, and are influenced by, stock market volatility.
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Yet Kim Jong-un's murderous antics are not merely palace intrigue; his brother's death is the latest in an effort to cleanse the North Korean government of people with whom the international community could quietly communicate, or even exert influence.
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But on Wednesday afternoon, members of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission said it would not halt its investigation of Mr. Wynn and his company, noting that he continued to hold stock and could exert influence over the company and its brand.
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The New York Times explores social media's black market, looking at how a shadowy "follower factory" called Devumi sells millions of Twitter followers and retweets to celebrities, businesses and anyone who wants to appear more popular or exert influence online.
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They also underline the challenges that the widening cultural gap poses for Beijing, whose growing efforts to exert influence over China's diaspora communities run the risk of falling flat or igniting a backlash that would only see them drifting further away.
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But Russia's bid committee was cleared of any wrongdoing, with the report finding no evidence of collusion with other bids, no violations of rules on gifts, and no signs that the Russians had tried to exert influence on any voters.
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Several people who have worked with Mercer believe that, despite his oddities, he has had surprising success in aligning the Republican Party, and consequently America, with his personal beliefs, and is now uniquely positioned to exert influence over the Trump Administration.
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WASHINGTON — American spies collected information last summer revealing that senior Russian intelligence and political officials were discussing how to exert influence over Donald J. Trump through his advisers, according to three current and former American officials familiar with the intelligence.
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Stoller, like other contemporary proponents of stronger antitrust, said that monopolies should not be primarily judged by how they affect consumer choice, but by how they affect market competition and by how they exert influence beyond the scope of democratic politics.
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While the Chinese economy is now on a far stronger footing than this time a year ago, reports have surfaced in recent days suggesting that the government is continuing to exert influence on market sentiment, this time towards the Chinese yuan.
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Such activity is nothing new in Europe, where Russia has launched a series of clandestine and open efforts to sway governments and exert influence, according to European and U.S. national security officials, diplomats, academics and other experts interviewed by ProPublica in recent weeks.
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"I do want to assure you that the US intelligence community is well postured to counter Russia, China, Iran or anyone else who is trying to exert influence over the American people and our election process," he told an audience at Purdue University.
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Today their leaders prefer to exert influence beyond the economic interests of their members, on issues ranging from funding Planned Parenthood to weighing in on foreign policy issues such as the Iran deal and a two-state solution for the Middle East.
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The point of market share, they argue, is to exert influence over retailers and there is little evidence that Penguin Random House has done this in a meaningful way (though it's possible that it does receive slightly better terms than its rivals).
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At the time, she was beginning to exert influence at the foundation, expressing concerns that Mr. Band and others were trying to use the charity to make money for themselves, and accusing another aide in her father's personal office of installing spyware.
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It's unusual for a president to so openly attempt to exert influence over the central bank, but Mr. Trump is taking his efforts a step further by announcing plans to nominate two of his longtime supporters for seats on the Fed's board.
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Amit Mehta of the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia said that Democrats' justification for the subpoenas — to examine whether foreigners are in a position to use business dealings with the president to exert influence over American policymaking — was valid.
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Bezos's decision to donate $10 billion comes at a time when many are debating whether billionaire philanthropy is actually a good way to improve the world, or whether it's a gambit that mostly enables the ultrarich to burnish their images and exert influence.
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WASHINGTON — Senate Finance Committee staff members met this month with an Internal Revenue Service whistle-blower who has alleged that senior Treasury Department officials tried to exert influence over the mandatory audit of President Trump's tax returns, a congressional aide said on Monday.
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Mindful that Arab citizens want to see tangible improvements in their lives and to exert influence befitting one-sixth of the voting-age population, the Joint List's leader, Ayman Odeh, broached the possibility of entering a center-left government under Mr. Gantz.
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Mindful that Arab citizens want to see tangible improvements in their lives and to exert influence befitting one-sixth of the voting-age population, the Joint List's leader, Ayman Odeh, broached the possibility of entering a center-left government under Mr. Gantz.
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Combined with Kushner (who had been intimately involved with the campaign from the jump) and Trump Jr. (who, like his siblings Eric and Ivanka, often tried to exert influence on the campaign's direction), the Trump campaign sent three very heavy hitters to this meeting.
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"The new rules allow the minister of justice to exert influence on individual ordinary judges through, in particular, the vague criteria for the prolongation of their mandates thereby undermining the principle of irremovability of judges," the European Commission said in a statement on Saturday.
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The Daily Beast reports that three sources familiar with Mueller's efforts in the Russia investigation say that prosecutors will begin outlining in court filings next year how foreign countries, in particular ones in the Middle East, attempted to exert influence over the Trump administration.
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The stories cover subjects like a proposal from the Massachusetts Medicaid program to negotiate discounts on the drugs it buys, as well as a campaign by the drug maker Mallinckrodt to exert influence in Washington amid troubles stemming from a multiple sclerosis drug price hike.
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Stretching over nine years, but drawn mainly from the past two years, the correspondence captures in detail the campaign's extreme caution and difficulty in identifying a core rationale for her candidacy, and the noisy world of advisers, friends and family members trying to exert influence.
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But even if you suspect that level of misconduct is rare, these examples demonstrate the way a department's culture can exert influence over officers who very well may have intended to bravely and fairly serve their communities when they first put on their uniforms.
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Devumi, a company that sells at least 3.5 million fake Twitter accounts as followers to anyone trying to "exert influence online," has sold to people like former Baltimore Ravens star Ray Lewis, a reporter at Breitbart, and even a board member at Twitter, Martha Lane Fox.
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Over the past 10 years, CICIG has brought charges against 680 people, jailing two presidents, military officers, corrupt business leaders, narco chiefs and so on; the most notorious, including Pérez Molina, are being held in the military's Mariscal Zavala prison, from which they still exert influence.
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As Kurtz-Phelan correctly notes, Marshall's ability to exert influence over the Nationalists was limited from the start by Chiang's belief (bolstered by back-channel communications with his friends in Washington) that, in the end, the United States would have no choice but to support him.
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Presidents, however, primarily exert influence over the antitrust process through the appointment of senior officials at the Justice Department and the F.T.C. Mr. Trump has yet to put forward nominees for those jobs, beyond the selection of Senator Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama, for attorney general.
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"You need to only look to the past few weeks and the efforts of the Iranians to exert influence now in Northern Iraq in addition to other places in Iraq to see that Iranian efforts to be the hegemonic power throughout the Middle East continues to increase," Pompeo said.
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Over the course of two albums, 20 singles, and countless DJ sets, Schaufler's work as Superpitcher has seen him become a poster-boy for the lovelorn and bluntly elegiac clubber, a producer gifted with the ability to exert influence on emotion without ever sliding into rank, calculated manipulation.
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Hegseth had no official position in the administration—he was once rumored to be a potential Veterans Affairs secretary, but veterans groups objected, and the post ultimately went to Robert Wilkie—but even from his perch in New York, he was able to exert influence on Trump's military decisions.
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But Mr. Schumer, who had engaged in a public feud with Mr. Trump for months, thinks that Democrats — meaning Mr. Schumer himself — seem to have finally figured out a way to exert influence on the president without getting too close to a man most Democratic voters view as unfit to serve.
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WASHINGTON — The day after the House cast historic votes to impeach President Trump, Speaker Nancy Pelosi put an abrupt halt on the proceedings, holding back from sending the charges to the Republican-led Senate in a politically risky bid to exert influence over the contours of an election-year trial.
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"We are not going to throw our hands in the air and terminate our relationship with Saudi Arabia, not just because of the huge number of British jobs that depend on it but also because if you exert influence over your partners you need to be able to talk to them," he said.
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"Probably, like me, a little bit controversial, but that's OK. That's OK." Administration officials say the invitation to the White House for talks — the first for a Hungarian prime minister in years — is part of a concerted strategy to re-engage Central European nations as Russia and China seek to exert influence in the region.
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"Russia is trying to exert influence on the ultimate decision of who becomes and what entity becomes in charge of the government inside Libya," Waldhauser said earlier this month, saying that Moscow was trying to replicate what it had achieved in Syria, where it has amassed considerable influence by being the military savior of the embattled regime.
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At the same time, the geography that defined their relationship for centuries continues to benefit India in its efforts to exert influence over its eponymous Ocean, presenting a longer-term problem to China, as its economic security depends on its access to the Indian Ocean in a way that India does not depend on the Western Pacific.
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Sustained investment in propaganda in Chinese-language media and in Western media, subtle and unsubtle attempts to exert influence through the party's United Front Work Department, pressuring business partners to support political positions on Taiwan and the South China Sea, buying political influence and muscle-flexing on Western campuses—all have caused alarm in several countries recently, notably in Australia and New Zealand.
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But Democrats are worried the amendment, as originally circulated to committee members, could give Congress the ability to try to exert influence over the investigation or even let President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's allies in the Senate pass on information to the White House. Sen.
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