malign influence
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmalignandinfluence
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malign
adjective
uk/məˈlaɪn/us/məˈlaɪn/
causing or intending to cause harm ...
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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 ofmalignandinfluencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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First, militia members want to counter what they see as themaligninfluenceof the nation's elites with regard to how the past is remembered and recalled.
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He had perhaps failed to get a sign at the nearest main road due to themaligninfluenceof the planners.
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But there is somemaligninfluencebehind him which has compelled him to impose this extraordinary procedure upon me.
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There does seem to be somemaligninfluenceat work.
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I do not know how far thismaligninfluencemight go; it might spread wider and become intolerable.
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The poll tax has continued to exercise itsmaligninfluenceand to cast its long shadow.
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How would anyone feel about a major restructuring that is initiated by a party which believes that farmers are amaligninfluencein the countryside?
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He said, with understandable feeling, that to wave away themaligninfluenceof unelected unaccountable political advisers was wrong.
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Our remit is to confront themaligninfluenceof organised crime wherever it raises its ugly head.
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But if we have totally uncontrolled swings in exchange rates, far from facilitating that, money becomes amaligninfluence.
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And we want to keep less serious offenders out of gaol and away from themaligninfluenceof hardened criminals.
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If the respondent is subject to somemaligninfluencefrom some other source, so be it; that is bad luck on the respondent.
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I can only attribute that to themaligninfluenceof those who were at the head of affairs at the time.
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He is continuing these malignant and malign influences.
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I do not know what malign influences may have been at work upon him to cause this falling away from grace.
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I believe there were two very malign influences at work in this matter.
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The principal aim of this organization was the eradication of untouchability and awareness against malign influences.
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