Interviewed on the BBC, the influential billionaire investor George Soros delivered a somber assessment.

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

The influential separatist Mirwaiz Umar Farooq is the chief priest at Jamia Masjid.

VOA: standard.2009.04.08

Jamal Khashoggi, who is the editor and publisher of the influential Saudi daily Al-Watan noted that he believes Mr.Obama won the Peace prize for his overtures to the Arab and Islamic world, and especially for his June address at Cairo University.

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

This month is the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of one of the most influential thinkers in science history.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

But it was also during this period that Hollywood and the American film industry became much more skilled and influential.

VOA: special.2011.04.14

Today we tell about one of the most influential social scientists of the last century the cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

The band's music is considered so influential that some critics say punk rock would not exist without the Stooges.

VOA: special.2010.03.19

"Atlas Shrugged" has been named in several opinion studies as one of the best and most influential books of the twentieth century.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

But she says they believe it would be a terrible mistake not to use these influential tools to contribute to the answers.

VOA: special.2009.11.27

He was also influential in the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, though he himself was white.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

She was one of the most influential and energetic female singers in the history of Afro-Cuban Music.

VOA: special.2011.05.08

This week,Americans said goodbye to the last son of one of the nation's most politically influential families.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

November twenty-fourth marked the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of one of the most influential books ever written.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

Merle Haggard is considered one of the most influential singer-songwriters in the history of country music.

VOA: special.2010.12.06

Today we tell about Les Paul, one of the most influential people in modern popular music.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

And he wrote one of the most influential books on early jazz, "Mister Jelly Roll."

VOA: special.2010.01.25

He is one of the most influential guitarists and songwriters in rock and roll history.

VOA: special.2009.08.07

The British economist John Maynard Keynes published an influential book that supported the same policy.

VOA: special.2011.04.07

Critics have called the Marx Brothers the most influential comedy team of the twentieth century.

VOA: special.2009.07.19