Word: swaying
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...various skilled defense lawyers hired by Duke players to change the climate that Nifong worked to establish at the outset. Their efforts to sway the views of potential jurors affects the larger audience as well. They are not interested in disquisitions on the case as a parable about race or class or privilege. But they do have an interest in conducting a seminar on the rights of the accused in a democracy: we're all equal under the law, justice is blind, those accused are innocent until proven guilty, the constitution guarantees a right to a speedy trial...
What do you expect out of this proclamation? Honestly, however he feels, you will not sway him one way or another by your profession. If he truly is a close friend, then he already loves you on some level. You may have to be content with that...
...paraphrase Captain Renault in Casablanca, I'm shocked, shocked that there are consultants working in politics! Give me a break, Joe. When you élitists stop covering the horse race and start addressing the issues, then consultants will have less sway over presidential elections. Heck, you guys are doing the consultants' jobs for them. You want to end the influence of media consultants on politics? Then stop playing their game, and cover campaigns in ways that benefit the American public...
...word article in January’s Institutional Investor magazine detailed Shleifer’s alleged efforts to use his inside knowledge of and sway over the Russian economy in order to make lucrative personal investments, all while leading a Harvard group advising the Russian government that was under contract with...
...fact, the papacy has allowed the once aspiring university star to transmit his ideas with an assured public presence matured over his years in the upper ranks of the Vatican hiearchy. And more than ever the piercing intellect of Professor Ratzinger will hold sway over the entire spectrum of Catholic Church life - its customs, policies, institutions and, naturally, the papacy itself. The changes now on the way were being worked out well before a Benedict papacy was in the cards. In the throes of John Paul?s greatest popularity, Cardinal Ratzinger was looking for ways to rein in the papacy...