The cosmopolitan influential in the town is like the medical specialist the local influential is like the family doctor. Merton concluded It appears that the cosmopolitan influential has a following because he knows , the local influential because he understands .

You don't think you're influential.

He is very influential in the world of medicine.

The blank slate was an influential idea in the 20th century.

Rousseau was mad but influential Hume was sane but had no followers.

The Economic and Social Council must again become a dynamic and influential organ.

Firmly grasp the correct orientation and focus on making it more attractive and influential.

In recent months, Berners Lee has been an influential voice in the net neutrality debate.

However, this city was blessed in the late 1990s with a highly influential mayor named Enrique Penalosa.

Ironically, women's significant involvement in politics, including at influential levels, had yet to be reflected in elections.

Indeed, in the past year, a group of influential scientific institutions have begun mobilizing to realize this dream.

There was a very influential book about that, which was mainly about getting governments out of the market.

Power and decision making society should grow towards the equal representation of men and women in influential positions.

Mr. Hariri's resignation added more strength to the opposition by bringing in the large and influential Sunni community.

International organizations continue to play an important role in countering the financing of terrorism, with FATF being especially influential.

The primary goal of continues to be the proportional representation of women in influential positions in all sections of society.

So a lot of people are following this person very influential and they have a propensity to talk about what's on TV.

The tunnels project is endorsed by Brown and by some politically influential water districts and water customers in Central and Southern California.

I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and Loony Tunes cartoons.

If you were lucky enough to be a wealthy businessman or an influential journalist, or a doctor or something, you might have a telephone.

The political scientist E.E. Schattschneider s analysis of the process was influential in transferring responsibility for trade measures from the US Congress to the President.

First, the task is to increase the Council's effectiveness and to provide for more balanced Council membership by including major and influential developing countries.

The Australian Sailing Championship is currently one of the highest standard and most influential national sailing events in Australia and is held once a year.

Chitra basically remixes and re titles these iconic images to tease out some of the sexual and gender politics embedded in these deeply influential comics.

Between the years 1993 2003, 360 staff members were promoted to full professor, a position granting not only higher income, but also influential status within academia.

A MINUGUA report was influential in Government civil society discussions aimed at producing a consensus based rural development policy, as called for in the peace accords.

MINUGUA recommendations were influential in the design of the Advisory Council on Security, a civilian presidential advisory body created in 2004 in accordance with the peace agreements.

It is worth noting, moreover, that 2004 marked the twentieth anniversary of the Cartagena Declaration on Refugees, a highly influential instrument in Latin America and around the world.

Its management will be entrusted to a particularly influential organ of ECOWAS, the Mediation and Security Council in particular, which will lend its full authority to the new mechanism.

In Europe, many influential leaders and citizens still view the marketplace as constrained by moral considerations, such as the need to alleviate economic suffering. This is an invaluable asset.

The use of the term continuous was considered a safeguard against the situation in which a person changed nationality merely to obtain diplomatic protection from a more influential State.

Presenters of the more than 5,000 books are all famous experts and scholars in each subject area, heads of each major publishing agency or influential mainstream media across the country.

The rankings will no doubt vary from year to year. But we have to conclude that in 2013 a handful of philosophers were particularly influential in the world of ideas.

CAMBRIDGE Peter Drucker, the influential management guru, famously said, What does not get measured, does not get done. He might have added that what gets measured poorly gets done poorly.

Because the beneficiaries of trade protection are concentrated and politically influential, while consumers are diffuse and disorganized. Why do political elites block reforms that would spur economic growth and development? 160

America s influential Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) also was established under Nixon. Environmentalists hired scientists, lawyers, and lobbyists who made sure that laws weren t just passed in Congress, but also implemented in practice.

Currently, there is too much I know and This is what I firmly believe, frequently from influential people, in cases where there is no incontestable right or wrong. Fukushima is one of them.

Two other factors are equally, if not more, influential the status quo inherited from the Mubarak era and the army s internal cohesion. With few exceptions, the SCAF s members benefited significantly from Mubarak s regime.

But that might not be enough in an EU with more than 500 million citizens. Other EU states need to follow their example in order to make European foreign policy truly effective and influential.

Moreover, the FSB s achievements are significant. Its agenda is rapidly expanding, and it is becoming an influential and permanent component of the international economic and financial architecture, even as challenging questions surround its future.

Influential developing countries share a joint responsibility with the G 8 for the stability of the global financial and economic systems. But they currently have limited channels for discharging that responsibility and influencing global policies.

This was the time when the actual independence of the Committee, as well as the appearance of independence, needed to be even more carefully maintained and protected because the Committee was more relevant and influential.

The parties must be persuaded by a combination of pressure and assurances from influential Member States that it is truly in their interests to respect the ceasefire and to pursue a settlement through peaceful means.

Yet the Syrian opposition has so far failed to present itself as a unified actor. This is astonishing, given that highly respected, influential figures and political parties have been speaking for the opposition at international gatherings.

In 1970, the Nobel laureate Milton Friedman one of my favorite economists wrote an influential article arguing that the only social responsibility of business is to increase its profits. On that point, I disagree with him.