channels of influence

I'm also applying through the usual channels of influence and corruption.

"It's both a confluence and a conflict between immediate financial resources and the channels of influence through which those resources must flow.

Chamberlain calls these categories "channels of influence" (see Proposition 6 above), and asserts that a competent strategist is able to use all of the six.

A sociogram can be drawn on the basis of many different criteria: Social relations, channels of influence, lines of communication etc.

Attempts to understand the human behaviour of the period have traditionally focused on the geographic position of the islands and their landscape, along with the channels of influence coming from continental Europe.

Naturally she couldn't take the route a man could have taken-priesthood and so on-it had to be unorthodox; she had to set up her own order, her own channels of influence, and work through that.

Monitors have accused Russian news channels of influencing past elections in Kyrgyzstan and the current restrictions are aimed at dampening their impact but they will apply to all international broadcasters including the BBC.

Or even better, downstairs beside the Pollock, where it would instantly point to the pervasive, enriching presence of African-American culture in 20th century American art, jazz being but one of its many channels of influence.

To the Editor: I share Paul Krugman's outrage at the radio-driven campaign against the Dixie Chicks, who had the temerity to criticize President Bush ("Channels of Influence," column, March 25).

It focused its attention on understanding the fashion items that its customers wanted and then delivering them, rather than on promoting predicted season's trends via fashion shows and similar channels of influence, which the fashion industry traditionally used.

Today, influence increasingly lies with networks of states with fluid and dynamic patterns of allegiance, alliance and connections, including the informal, which act as vital channels of influence and decision-making and require new forms of engagement from Britain.

In May 2006, as part of this project, he published an extensive report entitled "Enhancing Co-existence through Multiple Channels of Influence: A Strategic Scheme to Change the Quality of Arab-Jewish Relationships in Israel."

Groups will generally use two distinct styles when attempting to manipulate the media - they will either put across their outsider status and use their inability to access the other channels of influence to gain sympathy or they may put across a more ideological agenda.

To the Editor: Paul Krugman's March 25 column, "Channels of Influence," about a boycott of the Dixie Chicks after the group's lead singer criticized President Bush, has finally inspired me to heed Mr. Bush's post-9/11 advice to support our country's ideals through consumer spending.