Some private equity shops have become so influential that they are driving established banks out of the business.
Packaging is so influential that even a subtle hint seems to nudge people to stop eating.
Paul Scholes, so influential for United in their prolonged triumphs under the Scot, joined him in retirement.
Still the question remains, if she is so influential, why are we on the brink of socialized medicine today?
Luka Modric, so influential in recent matches under Redknapp had one weaving run but his shot was way off target.
For something so influential and intuitively appealing, it turns out that the Hawthorne effect is remarkably hard to pin down.
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It is now so influential it has even been sited with helping to launch the careers of bands like The Arcade Fire.
How is Ellison in a position to be so influential in Hollywood?
Canada already has something of a hybrid privacy regime, which may explain why its data-protection commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, has been so influential on the international stage.
Many people see Messrs Kristol and Krauthammer as exhibits in a Ripley's Believe It or Not exhibition: they marvel that they can ever have been so influential, rather than want to follow their advice again.
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What caused so many influential, left-of-center policy leaders to take up their pens and blurb a book so exuberantly?
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"We felt that working with Taobao Mall offered the best approach to reaching out to more consumers because it is so clearly the most influential online business-to-consumer sales channel, " said Christophe Bezu, chief e-commerce officer for Adidas, in an email.
So the question is how influential has Bangle been in his dealings with Samsung?
But what nobody can deny, many believe, is that Mr Kejriwal has shattered an inviolable code of silence, by talking openly about what he believes are transgressions of the powerful and influential, the so-called "high and mighty" of India's intensely unequal and hierarchical society.
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So has the AAMA, another influential networking group to help develop Asia-Silicon Valley business links.
Tax police launched raids and prosecutors began probes into Russia's biggest companies, some belonging to the country's most influential businessmen, the so-called oligarchs.
This makes them influential in primaries but less so in general elections.
Even so, Pilkington was becoming an increasingly influential figure for Stockport and it was his pass that led to Dickinson striking the decisive third for the Hatters.
Yet Mr O'Neill was also one of the two or three most influential figures in domestic politics, so he can hardly be brushed aside.
So, the pope joins a list of other influential world leaders who support increased financial oversight.
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You already have common interests, so gently reach out and get to know these influential players through mutual online discussions.
It is the idea that Britain will anyway have to join eventually, if it is to be a proper, influential member of the European club, so it might as well jump in soon.
Already, many companies who employ social media monitoring services are starting to keep track of the influencers relative to their product and service bases: all the press, analysts, influential competitor voices, influential user groups, bloggers, and so on.
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But of all of them I've felt particularly privileged to work with my long-time dear friend and colleague, and your great secretary of Treasury Robert Rubin, who will be remembered as the president said so well, as one of the most successful and influential secretaries of the treasury in all American history.
The so-called nationalist "Hercegovinian lobby" is now far less influential in Croatia than it used to be.
The last time the drugmaker did so was three years ago, according to Ethos, which is influential because it makes recommendations for Swiss pension funds (read more here).
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Started by Tammy Tibbetts, a passionate twenty-something colleague of mine who went from being a web and social media editor at Hearst to running a growing and influential 501(c)(3) that has so far helped girls in eight Third World countries, including India, Ethiopia, Guatemala and South Sudan.
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IBM, Chevron, and Microsoft are among other stocks that find themselves benefited by massive market capitalization, but none of them is actually a true growth stock, and none of them has been so influenced by one individual person (while Bill Gates was highly influential in the rise of Microsoft, he left day-to-day operations years ago, leaving the company in the worlds top echelons).
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Duffy also believes the struggle to replace influential players has been the main factor in Hearts' struggles so far this season.
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