asituationin which someone usestheirpowerorauthorityin anunfairway inordertoinfluencealegaldecision, adecisionabout who gets acontract, etc.:Governmentofficialsdeniedthere had been anyundueinfluencein theawardof therenewalcontract.ThePresidenthas beencriticizedforexercisingundueinfluenceover thejudiciaryandparliament.(Definition ofundue influencefrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofundue influence
undue influenceIt is accordingly unnecessary to say anything about theundueinfluenceissues.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Claims that a firm is rent-seeking therefore often accompany allegations of government corruption, or theundueinfluenceof special interests.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In these class 1 cases, a claimant proves they were actually put underundueinfluence.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Police officers may intervene if tellers irritate voters, exertundueinfluenceor obstruct the polling station.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He held that the same principle should apply even where the vitiating factor was something else:undueinfluenceor duress, for example.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Undueinfluencetypically involves a trusted friend, relative or caregiver who actively procures a new will.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, this is dependent on the circumstances of such a relationship and the burden is initially on the person contesting to showundueinfluence.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Under the employers are prohibited from usingundueinfluenceor pressure, coercion, threats, discrimination or taking adverse action against an employee to make them sign.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Whenever images threatened to gainundueinfluencewithin the church, theologians have sought to strip them of their power.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The judge found that, on the evidence, she had not been the victim of any actualundueinfluence.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/undue-influence##
