21.   Groups such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People have complained that minorities are less likely to be picked for such influential positions.

22.   He now holds the influential position of senior minister.

23.   However, its leader Roy Yaki has been appointed to the influential position of Finance minister.

24.   It involved having friends in influential positions.

25.   It is now clear that only concerted pressure from abroad will persuade Indonesia to rein in the powerful loggers who occupy influential positions in the nation.

26.   National leadership THE number of engineers holding political or other influential positions directly related to national policies is grossly lacking.

27.   She felt she would be seen as a token there with little chance for an influential position.

28.   Since January, Listyev had been the executive director of state-run Ostankino television, an influential position that may have cost him his life.

29.   The onus is now on ABRI, given its influential position in the Assembly, to publicly announce its candidate and subject he or she to public scrutiny.

30.   Islamist MPs lost influential positions in the Kuwaiti parliament amid allegations the elections were rigged, deputies said Sunday.