1.   The policy development process is a superb opportunity for educating key managers and important opinion makers within your organization.

2.   There are leaders and opinion makers on the staff whose power of influence is completely unrelated to their official status.

3.   And it now turns out that ordinary people had more common sense than the political activists and so-called opinion makers.

4.   By Thursday morning, two opinion makers, Tom Brokaw and Bryant Gumbel, together, agreed with the consensus and with one another.

5.   He also confronted the Republican opinion makers who were expressing doubts about his father.

6.   He has been scholar in residence for the whole country, an opinion maker whose informed, respected, commonsensical opinions are widely sought and widely disseminated.

7.   It seemed better, according to the consensus of opinion makers, to make a big push to shift people from welfare to work.

8.   Ms. Brown said her goal was to reach the opinion makers.

9.   Nor does the president appear to be gaining popularity among opinion makers and business leaders.

10.   Opinion makers worked overtime churning out explanations.