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.

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.

The local stock market s fall immediately after Humala s victory is a clear sign that the most influential forces in the Peruvian economy will continue to press for deeds, not promises deeds that benefit their interests, of course. Humala most likely will not follow market dictates robotically.

Until 1991, many literature magazines were issued in Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and among them the most influential were the following Život, Izraz, Lica and Dalje from Sarajevo, Putevi from Banja Luka and Most in Mostar.

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.

He is very influential in the world of medicine.

However, some of the most successful approaches at advocacy have been those that have involved directly approaching those opinion makers and leaders who are both most influential and the ones who are, rightly or wrongly, commonly perceived as the most significant obstacle to progress in the area.

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.

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

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

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.

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

In Indonesia s case, the two most influential leaders so far have been Sukarno, who used powerful rhetoric to foster a sense of national unity in one of the world s most diverse countries, and Suharto, who overthrew Sukarno and created a strong economic base that lifted millions out of poverty. Jokowi must now lay the institutional foundations for good governance.

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

The creditor debtor split was thrown into sharp relief this summer, during the negotiations over Greece s third bailout agreement. Germany, the leading proponent of austerity and the most influential creditor, was accused of insufficient flexibility and solidarity

Many influential economists are now worried that the US faces anemic growth and secular stagnation, owing to a persistent gap between aggregate demand and full employment. Stagnant middle class incomes imply weak aggregate demand, which in turn means slack labor markets and stagnant wages for most workers.

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.

The second reason is that the Security Council has consolidated itself as the most influential organ of the United Nations and that any alteration to it will therefore have important repercussions on the general functioning of the system.

It is our obligation as Japan s most influential newspaper to tell our readers who was responsible for starting the Sino Japanese War and the Pacific War. So writes Tsuneo Watanabe, Editor in Chief of Japan s (and the world s) most widely circulated newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun , in the introduction to the book From Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Ha rbor Who Was Responsible .

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.

One of the most influential figures in Iran during the Republic s first decade, Montazeri provided an extensive justification for the supreme leader s absolute authority, which many ayatollahs considered heretical. But he soon began to challenge the Islamic Republic s hardline leadership and continued to do so until he died in 2009.

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.

Lee Kuan Yew, who presided over Singapore either directly or indirectly for more than a half century remaining influential right up to his death at 91 had more time in power than most to do so. Several volumes of memoirs attest to Lee s concern about his legacy, although Singapore s extraordinary success under his leadership speaks for itself.

Yet, even in Iraq, Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani, the country s most influential Shia cleric, recently issued a seminal statement proclaiming the need for a civil, not religious state, with equal freedom for all to participate. Sistani also expressed disagreement with those close to Iran who want Shia to go to Syria to fight for Bashar al Assad s regime alongside Hezbollah.

Can it really be true that four of the world s five most influential thinkers come from the humanities, and 3 4 from philosophy? To answer that question, we have to ask what GDI measures when it compiles its ranking of Global Thought Leaders.

The makers of modern Europe saw that unstable and politically abused money would be a European nightmare, and lead to destructive national animosities and antagonisms. They were supported by the twentieth century s two most influential economists, Friedrich von Hayek and John Maynard Keynes.

What European leaders may want most from the Fund are easy loans and strong rhetorical support. But what Europe really needs is the kind of honest assessment and tough love that the Fund has traditionally offered to its other, less politically influential, clients.

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.

It is a safe prediction, given that Asia is already home to nearly 60 of the world s population and accounts for roughly 25 of global economic output. Asia is also the region where many of this century s most influential countries including China, India, Japan, Russia, South Korea, Indonesia, and the United States interact.

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

Building on this tradition, Xi can create strong institutions that will stand the test of time. If he does recognizing that, to be credible, the rule of law must apply even to the Party s most influential figures he will become modern China s third strongest leader.

So it seems that democracies are damned if they ban and damned if they do not ban. Or, in the more elevated language of the twentieth century s most influential liberal philosopher, John Rawls, this appears to be a practical dilemma which philosophy alone cannot resolve.

A study conducted in on agricultural production systems and the social economic situation in 03 of the country's villages, indicates that land was as in the past often attributed to the most influential families, with the relatives of community leaders having larger plots of land.

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

Influential principles have been developed through the office of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, the most relevant of which in the context of education is The Hague Recommendations Regarding the Education Rights of National Minorities of October, 1996, http www.osce.org hcnm documents recommendations hague index.php.

As that balance currently stands, Egypt continues to be one of the region s most influential actors, with the success or failure of its political and economic transition affecting how other Arab countries develop. But Egypt is weighed down by domestic concerns, including a plummeting economy and a security situation in which the military is used for police tasks.

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.

Philosophy is inadequate to understand the roots of human psychology, because self reflection does not make us aware of the forces that drive most of our reactions to the environment. Rather, we are subject to inborn tendencies, which develop through the reciprocally influential forces of natural and sexual selection.