powerful influence
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpowerfulandinfluence
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powerful
adjective
uk/ˈpaʊə.fəl/us/ˈpaʊ.ɚ.fəl/
having a lot of power to control people ...
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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 ofpowerfulandinfluencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thepowerfulinfluenceof pharmaceutical companies on doctor's prescribing, on hospital purchasing, and on government policy is the most prominent example.
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Thepowerfulinfluenceof teachers can also adversely affect adolescents' adjustment when teacher-student interactions are perceived as inequitable, inappropriate, or unfair.
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They suggest rather that habitat conditions have apowerfulinfluenceon parasite populations.
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Onepowerfulinfluenceupon the extension of the scope of retirement at the present time is high unemployment.
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His peer acquaintances constitute a reference group which is apowerfulinfluenceupon his age-specific behaviour.
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Realism recognises thepowerfulinfluencethat individuals exert under certain conditions and at certain times.
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When the specific input is strong it will have apowerfulinfluence; when it is weak, it may be swamped by the other system dynamics.
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As age has such apowerfulinfluenceon absolute risk, most elderly people fall into the high-risk categories.
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The plan which bore his name would come to have apowerfulinfluenceon the city and its environs.
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Nutrient levels exert apowerfulinfluenceon the distribution of marine organisms but what effect do nutrients have on evolution?
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Inflations and deflations can also have apowerfulinfluenceon average tariff rates, as we noted above.
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The associative account therefore predicts that stimulus salience should have apowerfulinfluenceon infants' learning.
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Furthermore, it was to continue to exert apowerfulinfluence, economically and politically, over the empire's history throughout the eighteenth century.
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How is thispowerfulinfluenceof technology perpetrated?
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This is possible by neglecting to consider thepowerfulinfluenceof contextualisation.
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Thepowerfulinfluenceof adolescent peers can also be harnessed beneficially within interventions; again, a possibility insufficiently explored in developmental science.
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Our counterfactual experiment thus illustrates how surprise can exert apowerfulinfluenceon the magnitude of the midterm loss.
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Language has apowerfulinfluenceover people and their behaviour.
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Our experience is that prevention practitioners have apowerfulinfluenceon the atmosphere in the classrooms in which they are working.
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And this memory is apowerfulinfluenceon the movement parameters generated for the next reach.
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