21.   Mrs. Ciller is an avowed secularist, and Erbakan is dedicated to increasing the influence of Islam in public life.

22.   Patient groups worry, however, that increased user fees will only increase the influence of industry over the FDA.

23.   Provide parents with options to increase their influence.

24.   Russian stocks also plunged, on worries populist leaders opposed to free-market economic policies could increase their influence if Yeltsin died or became incapacitated.

25.   Sen. Tom Daschle, the minority leader from South Dakota, said the higher contribution limits would increase the influence of wealthy donors.

26.   Since then the three directors from the Bronfman family have increased their influence and pushed the company in new directions.

27.   That has given rise to a federalist movement that would let states and municipalities raise their own revenues and, more important, increase their influence over local economies.

28.   That will increase their influence.

29.   The conventional wisdom of campaign finance is that large corporations and wealthy individuals contribute to candidates to increase their influence.

30.   The commission claims such a move would increase the influence of Europe in world affairs and reduce the threat of aggression against a member state.