controlling+influence
121Control Stock — 1. Equity shares owned by major shareholders of a publicly traded corporation. These shareholders have either a majority of the shares outstanding or a portion of the shares that is significant enough to allow them to exert a controlling… …
122govern — gov‧ern [ˈgʌvən ǁ ərn] verb 1. [intransitive, transitive] to officially and legally run a country and make decisions about taxes, laws, public services etc: • the politicians who govern the country • A small military elite has been governing for… …
123Cold War — A term which refers to the state of constant rivalry, suspicion and sometimes extreme tension in the post 1945 era between the communist countries of Eastern Europe (which were under the controlling influence of the Soviet Union) and the… …
124sway — c.1300, to go, glide, move, probably from O.N. sveigja to bend, swing, give way, from P.Gmc. *swaigijanan and related to SWAG (Cf. swag) (v.) and SWING (Cf. swing). The sense of swing, wave, waver is first recorded c.1500. Related: Swayed;… …
125Svengali — n. person who completely dominates another (usually with evil motives), one who exerts controlling influence over another person (named after the evil hypnotist in George Du Maurier s novel Trilby ) …
126Svengalis — n. person who completely dominates another (usually with evil motives), one who exerts controlling influence over another person (named after the evil hypnotist in George Du Maurier s novel Trilby ) …
127tail wagging the dog — This expression refers to a situation where there is a reversal of roles, with the small or minor element having a controlling influence on the most important element. If you let your children decide on everything, it will be a case of the …
128Svengali — [svɛn gα:li] noun a person who exercises a controlling influence on another, especially for a sinister purpose. Origin Svengali, a musician in George du Maurier s novel Trilby (1894) who controls Trilby s stage singing hypnotically …
