A single company can not influence the market price as people would buy from other companies instead.

These companies refined novel industrial innovations and influenced financial markets.

But a company can positively influence the perceptions through enlightened strategic actions.

The companies also strongly influenced the social and cultural life of the villages.

These companies, in turn, can influence how the governments they work with treat environmental dissidents.

He described it as a "glaring, disgraceful example" of how pharmaceutical companies had influenced Congress.

International companies directly and indirectly support 9,450 jobs in Bermuda and strongly influence a further 4,670.

Are there unwritten ways that the pharmaceutical companies are influencing the governments?

He says they help companies to influence government decisions and legislation.

But both companies will be influencing each other in the next few years.