1.   Employees local business people, opinion leaders and the general public were questioned.

2.   Although the meeting was portrayed publicly as a sit-down with business leaders, Castro clearly understood he was talking to opinion leaders.

3.   And the Whitehead Institute was willing to oblige, said its director, Gerald Fink, as part of a civic mission to spread genetic knowledge among opinion leaders.

4.   Any political debate is an event that carries far more weight with opinion leaders than with the public at large.

5.   Black opinion leaders like Waters have mounted a furious campaign to force the agency to tell everything it knows.

6.   But their opinion leaders do, and they matter.

7.   Collectively, the views of these religious opinion leaders reveal a remarkable convergence of opinion about what is happening in America at the deepest level.

8.   Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh and several other GOP opinion leaders slammed Dole with similar remarks.

9.   Even in the Czech Republic, brewers know who the opinion leaders are in the United States.

10.   Having this correspondent travel with him was his only step toward making his argument to a broad public, instead of just to potential opinion leaders.