external influence

collocation in English

meaningsofexternalandinfluence

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external
adjective
uk
/ɪkˈstɜː.nəl/
us
/ɪkˈstɝː.nəl/
of, on, for, or coming from ...
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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 ofexternalandinfluencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofexternal influence

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Clearly, he is correct, as no oneexternalinfluencecan predict all of the typological variation found in natural language.
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How important is this chaos to macroscopic measurements made on the genuine system with unknownexternalinfluence?
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Excluding quoted speech not only follows established practice for narrative analysis, but it also eliminates a potentialexternalinfluenceon learner production.
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Eachexternalinfluencerequires new parameters that must be determined experimentally, additional coupled equations, or both.
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Other 'players' in this space were the instruments and particularly in this session theexternalinfluenceof the other people in the building.
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The spread of information and expertise to those outside the responsible agencies can, therefore, open up domestic structures to realexternalinfluence.
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The first one is enforcement pressure on regulatory agencies in the onset of regulatory enforcement, which refers toexternalinfluence.
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Therefore, the perception of a newexternalinfluencewill partly be determined by these earlier adaptations.
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Four languages, however, display a higher degree ofexternalinfluence(3-4).
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Specifically, public support tends to promote the dimensions of ' 'education' ' and ' 'coercion' ' (and, possibly, ' 'externalinfluence' ' as well).
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The complexity of the system increases withoutexternalinfluence.
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It follows thatexternalinfluencemay have a mixed impact on regulatory outcomes.
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In other words, the relationship is dictated byexternalinfluence, namely the employer, and not by the conscious control of fertility on the part of the workers.
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Bristol's civic oaths were not, however, wholly independent ofexternalinfluence.
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Mutual competition of mode groups at the initial stage of grating formation does not allow real "self-starting" oscillation withoutexternalinfluenceproviding predominance of a mode group.
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Employing this approach, we would reiterate that government support has a positive influence on the dimension of ' 'prioritization' ' and a negative influence on the ' 'coercion' ' and ' 'externalinfluence' ' dimensions.
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A second and equally important concern of this research attempts to define the domains of the linguistic system that may be the most permeable toexternalinfluence.
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This passivity (sometimes termed 'field dependence' or 'external locus of control') made them more helpless but also more open toexternalinfluencethan were their more autonomous peers.
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Unlike the immediate symmetric reaction, the late 'asymmetric ' one inverts during the deep penetration of anexternalinfluenceinto the network of chemical processes (which are already inverted in probionts).
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