Influence
Lay
Lay verb - To arrange something in a certain spot or position.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- They lay down their weapons and try to talk to the enemies... who promptly kill them all, being under the influence of similar drugs and seeing our protagonists as monsters.
Source: Cruel Twist Ending - By the end they're a pathetic bunch of tin soldiers floating around the galaxy in a derelict spaceship, with no home planet and no influence... and they still refuse to lay down and die.
Source: Determinator / Live-Action TV - There's also the matter of a single Jedi or Sith being able to influence the entire galaxy; is that sort of power something any one person should have when individuals will lay waste to everything just to obtain it?
Source: Villain Has a Point
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