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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

The private sector and media outlets like the influential Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper have also joined in. The Liberal Democrats aim to have their draft constitutional amendments ready for the 50th anniversary of the party s founding this November.

Other very influential non treaty standards have been set within the Organization for Security and Co operation in Europe (OSCE), the most significant of which is the 1990 Document of the Copenhagen Meeting on the Human Dimension.

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.

When such smart diplomacy is put at the service of an appealing and influential Pope, not to mention the 1.2 billion Catholics worldwide, the result is an engine for doing good that is more formidable than anything the world has seen for some time.

In Japan, Abe has satisfied his conservative supporters with cabinet resolutions to allow for expanded self defense. Despite domestic opposition to Japan s new security doctrine, no politically influential group was able to organize an effective challenge to Abe s approach.

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.

The oldest and the most influential magazine, Putevi, which was to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary soon, has unfortunately been closed because the State has failed to provide funds for its financing, and the publisher has no interest in investing himself.

In fact, the worldviews that de Gaulle and Churchill established for their countries turned out to be a little too influential. Their successors continued to perceive the world and their countries role in it in ways that constrained rational discussion and distorted decision making for years.

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.

Piñera blamed the incoming Bachelet administration, and its plan to raise taxes, for the drop in the growth rate. If so, Bachelet s economists are very influential indeed, because a similar slowdown has occurred all over Latin America and in emerging countries worldwide.

He is also one of Italy s most influential political commentators. His blog attracts 160,000 hits daily, and if he could run for prime minister (he can t, because of a criminal record), more than half of Italy s voters, according to a poll last year, would have considered voting for him.

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