Influencia in english
pronunciation: ɪnfluəns part of speech: noun, verb
influencia = force ; influence ; lever ; leverage ; say ; clout ; good offices ; sway ; bearance.
Example: Her reason admitted the force of his arguments, but her instinct opposed it.Example: All these influences are at work before a child goes to school, yet until quite recently we have behaved as though good teaching in good schools was enough to compensate for the disabilities of verbally impoverished children.Example: An indication that the Commission would be prepared to accept a borderline project would provide a useful lever when the application is passed to the UK Government.Example: At certain times, dubious interpretations of the rules have even been used as leverage in gaining ground on matters of dispute between Community partners.Example: I've seen people clamor for a say and when it's given to them they don't take it.Example: IT executives would like to see their role in the organization elevated, giving them more 'clout', stature and visibility.Example: This enables the library to use the MPEs' good offices and contacts to influence the national government on projects which are important for the area.Example: During this period Africa was influenced by external forces as the Islamic states of the north extended their sway south.Example: In the world of weather forecasting, conventional wisdom is that past weather has no bearance on future weather.more:
» área de influencia = remit .
Example: The service was withdrawn from lack of use but because the State Telephone Service considered the department outside its remit.» buena influencia = good influence .
Example: It is interpreted as a pun on the name of the palace (Te) whose fortunes, like that of man, depend on the good influence of its lucky star.» caer bajo + Posesivo + influencia = come under + Posesivo + influence .
Example: Like most of Mrs. Eddy's disciples, he had led a quiet, uneventful life until he came under her influence.» campaña contra la conducción bajo la influencia del alcohol = drink-drive campaign ; anti-drink-drive campaign .
Example: Despite research showing that drink driving is less socially acceptable since the start of drink-drive campaigns in 1976, it still occurs across all age groups. Example: Government is targeting young men in this year's Christmas anti-drink-drive campaign.» conducción bajo la influencia del alcohol = drink driving ; drunk driving .
Example: Problem drinking, drink driving and criminality are important risk factors for receipt of disability pension and high levels of sickness absence in young men. Example: He received a two-year suspension for violating the conditions of a public reproval and being convicted of two drunk driving.» conducir bajo la influencia del alcohol = drive (while) under + the influence (of alcohol) .
Example: The driver was placed under arrest by the state police for driving while under the influence of alcohol.» de gran influencia = seminal .
Example: He has published seminal papers on automated cataloging and authority control in Library Journal, Library Quarterly, and Journal of Library Automation.» ejercer influencia = exert + influence ; wield + influence ; deliver + clout .
Example: The subject analysis of a document exerts a controlling influence on all the subsequent steps involved in its subject content. Example: No one needs to be told that children wield powerful persuasive influences upone each other. Example: This article discusses how librarians can slay these dragons by banding together to deliver more clout.» ejercer influencia en/sobre = come to + bear influence on ; bear + an influence on .
Example: Spreading out from the doorstep is a wider social group whose influence comes to bear on children, particularly after they are old enough to wander at large on their own. Example: Though her oddball style is most certainly her own, California still bears an influence on her work.» ejercer una gran influencia en = play + a strong hand in .
Example: Economic issues play a strong hand in suggesting its demise.» esfera de influencia = sphere of influence .
Example: One of the critical responsibilities of management level personnel within any organisation is measuring and optimising the performance of activities within their sphere of influence.» extender la influencia = spread + influence .
Example: MARC now spreads its influence across the whole spectrum of library activity.» hacer uso de influencias = pull + strings .
Example: Perhaps he can pull some strings to get us one of the main lecture halls at the University.» influencia de los amigos = peer influence .
Example: The third point is one that harks back to the chapter on peer influences.» influencia económica = economic influence .
Example: The political, social and economic influences driving the movement are described in broad terms.» influencia electoral = coattails [Influencia que un candidato tiene sobre la elección de otra persona de su mismo partido] ; political coattails [Influencia que un candidato tiene sobre la elección de otra persona de su mismo partido] ; electoral coattails [Influencia que un candidato tiene sobre la elección de otra persona de su mismo partido] .
Example: One way to measure that mandate is to estimate Obama's 'coattails', that is, the degree to which members of Congress feel that their own election depended in part on voters who came to the polls to support Obama. Example: Obviously, too, how well his Republican colleague does on Election Day will depend to a degree on how long Mr. Bush's political coattails are. Example: There are also elections where a presidential candidate has long electoral coattails that pull many members of his party to victory in congressional races.» influencia histórica = historical influence .
Example: This paper examines the historical influences on the development of American school libraries to 1978.» influencia política = political clout ; political influence .
Example: Even sympathetic librarians may not have the political clout to force their local government to mandate minority business set-asides. Example: Librarians need to exert more political influence.» influencia social = social influence .
Example: The future of the National Library of Medicine will be shaped by a number of scientific, technical, and social influences.» mala influencia = bad seed ; bad influence ; damaged goods [Expresión usada originariamente para referirse a una chica que había perdido su virginidad] .
Example: The 1956 movie 'The Bad Seed' provided a lasting cultural reference point for children who have attracted national attention for their asocial and violently structured lives. Example: This paper suggests that forced consensus in collaborative writing is a bad influence on imaginative scholars. Example: They are seen as basket cases, 'damaged goods', the vulnerable children of the world who need the help and protection of the UN, NGOs and armies of therapists from the West.» perder influencia = lose + clout .
Example: If performance evaluation is viewed as a tool of second or third-level by supervisors it loses its clout and encourages strife.» tener influencia en = have + pull with .
Example: What many celebrities like her fail to understand is that they have pull with people and that means they also have a responsibility to act ethically and honestly.» tener influencias = have + pull .
Example: It isn't fair to those who don't have 'pull' that those who do get preferential treatment = No es justo para aquellos que no tienen "influencias" que aquellos que sí las tienen reciban un trato preferente.» tener influencia sobre = have + a hold over .
Example: 'What mystifies me -- ' she paused, searching for the proper words -- 'what mystifies me is the hold he seems to have over you and the staff'.» traficante de influencias = power broker .
Example: Democracy's most acute failures tend to result from power brokers who tell big fibs about the distribution of power.» tráfico de influencias = spoils system ; nepotism .
Example: The spoils system remained an important part of the political landscape until the civil service reforms toward the end of the century. Example: Although nepotism is considered selfish, it proceeds from the generous impulse to pass something on to one's children, and this we think of as entirely praiseworth.» valerse de influencias = pull + strings .
Example: Perhaps he can pull some strings to get us one of the main lecture halls at the University.