Tom has many powerful friends.

Tom has many influential friends.

Index funds are an example of such powerful investors.

Two of the most influential senators also come from California.

The party then hemorrhaged influential members, particularly in the north.

The Ulema Council, a group of influential clerics, has given its backing as well.

Rovere s influential people seemed to be sharply divided into cosmopolitan influentials, who habitually orient themselves with respect to the world at large, and local influentials, who orient themselves with respect to their own town.

Mozambique security concerns mount as powerful personalities clash

Of course, there will be many powerful losers as we make these changes.

True, the establishment of such cities is a relatively rare event.

Fernanda Viegas ( viegasf) is on the list of the top 100 more influential Brazilians.

Khurram has been one of most vocal critics of the India s repressive policies in Kashmir.

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Mean spirited and partisan, Dick Cheney was one of America s most powerful vice presidents.

La Jornada, one of the main newspapers in Mexico, has recently launched an edition with content in Mayan.

Such a cavalier attitude to the demands of lesser powers to be heard is no longer possible. But all this means is that the facades will have to be more subtle and the fictions more elaborate.

But Obasanjo is a passionate advocate of unitary government and counts many influential northerners as personal friends.

Such a cavalier attitude to the demands of lesser powers to be heard is no longer possible.

Yudhoyono is one of the 100 World's Most Influential People in 2009 according to TIME Magazine.

Both countries face formidable resistance to reform from formidable vested interests and lobby groups.

And Chris just touched on one of those a second ago, and that was the Time 100 poll.

According to a French Magazine, Pelevin is among the 1,000 most significant people in the contemporary culture.

A vigilante group of influential settlers, headed by Abraham Curry, sought a site for a capital city for the envisioned territory.

He also appeared in the list of TIME magazine's 100 most influential people of 2004.

But major power shifts within Asia are challenging the continent s own peace and stability.

So let us talk about famous people rather than influential ones.

Japan was thus controlled by the Genro, an oligarchy, which comprised the most powerful men of the military, political, and economic spheres.

In 2005 Hirsi Ali was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

But that was only after five years of intransigence by Europe s even more powerful farm lobbies.

Old Stremov one of Petersburg's influential men, and Lisa Merkalova's adorer was also officially hostile to Karenin.

In November 2010, Jobs was ranked No.17 on Forbes The World's Most Powerful People.

Fortunately, there finally seems to be a growing number of influential scientists, economists, and politicians who represent a more sensible approach to the issue.

ISLAMABAD Can Muslim governments free themselves from their countries powerful militaries and establish civilian control comparable to that found in liberal democracies?

There are serious ills in the private sector, too notably, the pervasive influence of vested interests and the country s business and political elites.

It's two big men (Guebuza and Dhlakama) butting heads together, said Joseph Hanlon, a lecturer at the Open University and Mozambique expert.

Too many powerful countries now feel able to flex their diplomatic muscles in defense of their interests.

Theotokas was a major figure of the Greek Generation of the Thirties , a group of influential writers, poets and philosophers that brought radical changes to Greek literature.

Around 1671, Anne first made the acquaintance of Sarah Jennings, who later became her close friend and one of her most influential advisors.

New York Beppo Grillo is one of Italy s most famous comics. He is also one of Italy s most influential political commentators.

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Senegalese philosopher Souleymane Bachir Diagne was nominated as one of the 50 most influential people of Africa by magazine Jeune Afrique in 2014.

On the other are people who are often marginalized in society, people who have not got allies and who are not very sophisticated in knowing what s going.

Both Polanski and DSK were engaged in sexual activities with women who were far from being their equals, in age and social status, respectively. Understanding their human frailties, then, comes down to excusing the behavior of powerful men towards women with no power at all.

Clearly, Pax Asia Pacifica must be built on an unswerving commitment to peace among APEC's most powerful countries the US, China, and Japan.

He lifted Georgia out of civil war in the early 1990's, but then held it together by playing one powerful clan off against another.