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Example sentences for: influence

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One criticism focuses on the designer of the book, over whom the publisher's editor (if not Nigel Rees) should have exercised some influence: in a book in which the page numbers are an essential piece of the reference apparatus, they should not be set in the center of the bottom of the page, where they are hard to see when thumbing through, but at the top, as close to the foredge as possible.
If we are to go by the evidence, we must recognise that the interpretation of dear by dear Lord or even by Lord at all, is due to the influence of popular etymology, which could make nothing of dear when it stood alone.
The TV talk shows diluted the influence of columnists.
It has not been without influence on the ABC's commercial rivals.
Scientific journals are slowly disentangling themselves from unhealthy industry influence over what they publish, and public access to clinical trial data is daily a closer reality [9].