1.   You need to understand how office politics influence the working environment.

2.   An IRS spokesman denied that politics influences audit decisions.

3.   After Vietnam, Kerrey said he made a promise to himself never to allow personal politics to influence decisions about war.

4.   But White House officials denied that politics influenced their decision, saying they followed the advice of military and intelligence experts.

5.   For Ukraine and much of Eastern Europe, decisions about energy supplies are heavily influenced by politics.

6.   In interviews at the time, Bush said he was never influenced by politics when making clemency decisions.

7.   Is it because he had long complained that ethnic and sexual politics influenced Olympic-style judging?

8.   It has long been a hallmark of aerospace that politics influence orders as much as economics do.

9.   Partisan politics influenced both how much a family talked about the White House crisis and what they said, the poll found.

10.   Privately, Clinton aides acknowledge that electoral politics influence priorities.