"Hopefully, this will open the door to corporate sponsors where corporations aren't influencing the design."

Relying on Austin, Stevens argued that corporations "unfairly influence" the electoral process with vast sums of money that few individuals can match, which distorts the public debate.

"Regrettably, a large gap has arisen between A.P.A.'s mission and the drift of the profession into helping corporations influence children for the purpose of selling products to them," the letter stated.

Governments (the macroeconomic side) set both national and international regulations that keep track of prices and corporations' (microeconomics) growth rates, set prices, and trade, while the corporations influence what federal laws are set.

We're seeing Microsoft's opponents throw cash at the Government, in terms of high-powered lobbyists and all manner of ways that corporations influence the Government.

Large corporations influence local policies and criminal syndicates evade capture with cunning.

The more cynical among us might say that this is just the U.S. government following the same course that was set years ago, in which giant corporations influence - or perhaps even dictate - policy.

In November 1995, Mr. Cumaraswamy said in an interview with a London publication, International Commercial Litigation, he had received complaints that powerful corporations were influencing judicial decisions in Malaysia.

In Freedom of Expression , Kembrew McLeod discusses the concept of freedom of expression regarding cultural norms and the manner in which society allows corporations to influence discourse.

That allows corporations to influence the decisions of the state like how, where and what to build, what to buy, environmental and labor laws.