parental influence

collocation in English

meaningsofparentalandinfluence

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parental
adjective
uk
/pəˈren.təl/
us
/pəˈren.t̬əl/
relating to parents or to being ...
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influence
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈɪn.flu.əns/
us
/ˈɪn.flu.əns/
the power to have an effect on people or things, or a person or thing that is able to ...
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(Definition ofparentalandinfluencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This puts a natural limit toparentalinfluence.
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This article also examines children's attitudes towards smoking and alcohol, and considers howparentalinfluenceaffects children's ideas about the acceptability of these substances.
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Parentalinfluence, as outlined earlier, had a profound effect on some participants' introduction to music.
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Many subjects indicatedparentalinfluenceas a factor in early music making, before contact with teachers through school.
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The ability of temperament to adjust to the environment of child rearing may help account for why a genetic variation increasingparentalinfluencewould be positively selected.
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Much has been said about the laxity of parents and the decline of theparentalinfluencethese days.
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In practice, many factors influence the teenagers' consumption of tobacco—notably, price andparentalinfluence.
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Ifparentalinfluenceis bad, it produces this problem.
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The most likely outcome is thatparentalinfluencewill have a rapid effect on selection.
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Let historians dispute where the idea of increasingparentalinfluenceon governing bodies came from.
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It would mean a significant reduction inparentalinfluenceat each individual school within a group.
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Quite often when we look at the reasons why we find that it isparentalinfluence.
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We have heard many times of the importance ofparentalinfluencein education.
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Indeed, grant-maintained schools have been created as a result of thatparentalinfluence.
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One would have hoped that the system, as it was structured, would have provided more effectiveparentalinfluencewithin schools.
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Is that a sensible way of going about the business of introducing proper and controlledparentalinfluence?
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I am aware that he is a devotee ofparentalinfluence.
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That view is reinforced when we consider that other measures, such as price andparentalinfluence, have a much greater impact than a statutory ban.
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The first is probably housing and the secondparentalinfluence.
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The single most important influence in a child's life is theparentalinfluence.
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