1.   Davis plays an enormously influential role in city politics.

2.   Personal likes and dislikes play a more influential role in international affairs than is often thought.

3.   These findings suggest that media coverage did not play an influential role in encouraging people to participate in the Detroit riot.

4.   What, for example, is the basis for the influential role doctors have been able to play in health service policies?

5.   He also kicked badly out of hand until he settled down to play a more influential role after the interval.

6.   And he made it clear that one way or another, he and his brother would have influential roles in the presidential competition.

7.   And now, several people who played influential roles in the Gore operation say the failure to engage Bradley sooner was a fundamental misjudgment.

8.   But experience, training and tactics have definitely played a more influential role in battle.

9.   But Kasich, unlike the others, is also the chairman of the House Budget Committee, with an influential role in fiscal policy.