have influence over

基本解释

First, we asked, does the person have influence over lots of other people?
首先，要问的是，这位人物是否有极大的影响力？
The same people who market a school often sit on, or have influence over, admissions committees.
为商学院做营销的人常常是招生委员会成员，或对该委员会有影响力。
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But if you had to stereotype, girls more often use social power to have influence over their peers, and boys more often use physical intimidation to have power over their peers.
但如果按传统的说法，女生更经常用社交的力量来打击她们的同龄人；而男生更愿意使用人身恐吓。

But nonetheless, Peter the Great creates this huge empire that will have over the long run, an enormous influence in European affairs.
即使如此,彼得大帝还是一手创造了,这个庞大的帝国,长远来看将对欧洲事务产生极大影响
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The iPhone category is different as carriers, and their subsidies and marketing, can have influence over consumer purchasing decisions.
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But how do people we know little more about than the parts they play on screen have influence over the things we watch, the decisions we make and the people we become?
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That would mean that lobbies representing different medical specialties, drug companies, device makers, hospitals, home health nurses and other providers would cease to have influence over their own payment rates as they do now.
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