direct influence
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdirectandinfluence
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direct
adjective
uk/daɪˈrekt/us/daɪˈrekt/
going in a straight line towards somewhere or someone without stopping or ...
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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 ofdirectandinfluencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Demographic characteristics of also exerting their owndirectinfluenceon the communities, the availability of and satisfac- individual.
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In its light one might argue that religious faith of itself is rarely capable of exerting adirectinfluenceon the development of science.
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All of these factors can have adirectinfluenceon the beneficial effects of compost on plants.
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First, the large vocabulary can havedirectinfluenceby increasing the likelihood of finding close approximations in memory to the words to be learned.
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Yet it is in the selection of materials and in embodied energy that architects can have mostdirectinfluence.
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What this illustrates is that contact effects are often a combination ofdirectinfluenceand language-internal or universal factors.
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In fact their source is closely related, and in the course of the piece, they come within the sphere ofdirectinfluenceof the player.
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Directinfluenceof the substratum languages is the second type of explanation.
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While the abbey could thus expect to come under the gaze of the political nation, it also exerted a moredirectinfluenceover the locality.
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Yet, current research only examines thedirectinfluenceof opinion leaders or cumulative network knowledge.
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This had adirectinfluenceon the choice of future repertoire in the curriculum.
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It is interesting to note that in these circumstances, thedirectinfluenceof ill-health is comparatively rare.
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Connecting neurosis and psychosis : thedirectinfluenceof emotion on delusions and hallucinations.
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In the case ofdirectinfluence, the support network regulates actions or applies sanctions to influence a person's behaviour.
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Much of the scholarship arguing for thedirectinfluenceof business proceeds relatively atheoretically, retrospectively inferring preferences from business actions or public statements.
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There was nodirectinfluenceof marine conditions during this later phase.
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The length of the training period for different applications has adirectinfluenceon the per formance of the network.
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Cognitive theories postulate causal models in which anxiety has adirectinfluenceon liability for major depression.
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The trade-off between stability anddirectinfluencefor the current majority over fiscal policy is always present.
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