potential influence

collocation in English

meaningsofpotentialandinfluence

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potential
adjective[before noun]
uk
/pəˈten.ʃəl/
us
/poʊˈten.ʃəl/
possible when the necessary ...
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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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Thus, health workers'potentialinfluenceis minimized because their attitudes and behaviours mirror the community rather than advocating change to promote health.
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However, the remaining groups-following grammatical environment, following phonological environment, gender, and style-were tested for theirpotentialinfluenceon the variation.
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Other authors urged caution in the production of rapid assessments, while acknowledging theirpotentialinfluenceon policy making.
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We have been studying thepotentialinfluenceof cytokine signalling upon neural cell responses in central demyelinating disease in order to develop novel therapeutic approaches.
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All three countries were also democratic in the post-crisis period, so that dispersed groups had a greaterpotentialinfluenceon policy outcomes.
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We used comparison of crossspecies (without controlling for phylogeny) values and independent contrasts obtained from simulated phylogenies to assess thepotentialinfluenceof phylogeny.
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In this study thepotentialinfluenceof twinship was taken into account in the statistical analyses by clustering.
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Because of thepotentialinfluenceon the analyses, outliers were assessed for each regression analysis and deleted casewise.
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Experiments were conducted close to the new moon to minimizepotentialinfluenceof rodent activity by lunar phases.
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Even if this seems inevitable in topics such as osteoporosis, no report mentioned this issue or discussed itspotentialinfluenceon the recommendations.
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Moreover, itspotentialinfluenceis multifaceted due to the possible use of a broad range of requirements.
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They also participate in budget negotiations with each hospital, giving thempotentialinfluenceover the introduction and utilization of healthcare technologies.
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Additional analyses were conducted to assess thepotentialinfluenceof this tacit assumption on the main results of this study.
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Still, it is unclear exactly what role these principles may play and theirpotentialinfluencein the context of computational per formance.
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The test was constructed in such a way which should exclude thepotentialinfluenceof performance and some task dependent factors.
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The purpose was to establish the relationship between a child's productive and conceptual knowledge, and to examine itspotentialinfluenceon phonological change.
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Here dispersed interest groups are an importantpotentialinfluence.
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In the third set of analyses, we explored in depth thepotentialinfluenceof vocabulary on infants' performance on this task.
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A fractional order of integration can modify smoothly the fractionalpotentialinfluencewithout requiring, modification of the charge distribution.
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