But despite his fame and his influential friends, most Islamists reject Mr Moussa as too secular.
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The awkward fact is that Mr Cakici could not have got where he has without help from influential friends.
The plus side is that you get to bask in reflected glory when you align yourself with respected and influential friends.
She also worked her connections to get Mr. Guggenheim's film screened at the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center and provided influential friends with copies.
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When first released, it gained 25, 000 users in the first 24 hours, all because of word of mouth and support from some influential friends in Silicon Valley.
Do attach an extra essay explaining why you were home-schooled or attended five different schools in three years, but never send a photo of yourself wearing the school's sweatshirt, a cake you've baked or letters from your parents' influential friends who have never met you, Doe adds.
And Mr Jackson, together with other black Americans who are influential in formulating American policy on Africa, are personal friends of Mr Taylor's.
And while most of us are just talking to a handful of friends (or ourselves), a handful of influential people top the list of those we want to hear from in our online world.
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With a little bit of list management in advance, setting up some SXSW specific lists of close friends, people I wanted to meet, and some influential bloggers and writers attending the Austin madness, I felt on top of the information on Twitter, but I never felt that it was breaking news or providing another insight into the event.
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Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and Kent Conrad of North Dakota, as well as a few other influential Washingtonians, were listed by Countrywide employees as FOAs, or "Friends of Angelo, " a reference to Angelo Mozilo, Countrywide's CEO.
After giving the book as a gift to her friends and colleagues, McPartland sought to write a composition to honor the influential environmentalist.
"We've partnered with some of the biggest and most influential social networks in the world, including Facebook and Ustream, to bring gamers friends into games like never before, " former Gaikai CEO David Perry told attendees of Sony's PlayStation 4 event last week.
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