The gun lobby said it would consider lawmakers' vote on the issue in its influential rankings.
The gun lobby said it will consider lawmakers' votes on the issue in its influential rankings.
EU's most influential body, but Mr Brown himself is one of its less influential members.
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Under Jim, Forbes has become one of this country's premier publications, as well as the most influential in its field.
The linchpin of the region is Uganda, with its powerful army, influential president, successful economy and the friendship of Americans and Europeans.
Beginning with his debut as a leader, 1969's "The DeJohnette Complex" (Milestone), he displayed an innovative streak as bandleader: The 1979 version of his Special Edition was particularly influential for its fire, wit and genre-spanning approach.
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It was even more popular and influential than its predecessor and it went on to become a jazz standard played by musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Count Basie and, the queen of 1920s blues, Bessie Smith.
An obscure but increasingly influential piece of its empire, the Institute for Legal Reform (ILR), plays an important role here.
As Brazil has grown economically, it has become self-conscious of its ability to become politically influential, not merely in the region but also in the world.
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Television's debut, 1977's Marquee Moon, is widely regarded as one of the most influential records of its era, and it had an enormous impact on much of the underground music that followed.
One reason why Amtrak is so lousy is its penchant for stopping its trains at every city on its route that has an influential politician just in case he (or one of his voters) happens to be standing on the platform.
The Foreign Relations Committee is only a shell of what it was when the influential Arkansas Democrat was its chairman from 1959 to 1974.
And Peter Kim of Forrester, a consultancy, points out that when Microsoft sent laptops loaded with its new Windows Vista software to influential bloggers in an effort to get them to write about it, the resulting online discussion ignored Vista and focused instead on the morality of accepting gifts and the ethics of word-of-mouth marketing.
In its annual ranking of the powerful and influential, Vanity Fair seems to imply the latter.
Incredibly, Time magazine put "Glee" star Chris Colfer in its 2011 listing of the 100 most influential people in the world.
On the first working day of the year, however, the highly influential Bank of England lowered its key lending rate from a century-high 7%.
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And the more influential it becomes, the more its tools will be in demand.
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Within four years of its inception the Casey Institute had become an influential voice in the public policy community.
In the early days of Mr Khatami's first term, his reform-minded regime derived much of its zip from religious nationalists, who were influential in the press and universities.
And Dr George Garnett, a history lecturer at Oxford University, specialising in English history in the 10-13th Centuries, says that while Magna Carta has proved to be enormously influential, that wasn't its original intention.
In August of 2003, the influential American Academy of Pediatrics released its first policy statement on how physicians should deal with the issue of childhood overweight, a refreshing development from an organization that for too long dealt with the issue by saying that parents should simply wait for their kids to grow out of their chubbiness.
The Fed keeps many of the influential editors of prominent academic journals on its payroll.
It has also proved hugely influential on the lives of some of its members or Redditors as they style themselves.
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But the independent agency is influential on matters of public safety and its decisions can spur action from like-minded legislators and transportation agencies nationwide.
And with over half of its students in charter schools and a large and influential Teach for America corps, New Orleans has become a laboratory and model for education reform.
South Africa, Zimbabwe's most influential neighbour, is actively seeking to end its isolation.
Influential groups like the Brookings Institute are pushing its merits.
Who knows, by the time the Government comes to make its decision, Mr Johnson may be an even more influential player in the debate than he is now.
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