91.   President Clinton has not only given Gore specific, substantive tasks but allowed him considerable influence in policymaking across the board.

92.   People close to Silver said that he would retain considerable influence in the party.

93.   Russia is supplying arms to the Northern Alliance and retains considerable influence in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, the former Soviet republics that border Afghanistan.

94.   Reputed to wield considerable influence at the Bolshoi, Volochkova is now a principal with that company in Moscow.

95.   Rhodes and Long also exert considerable influence in the legislature.

96.   Sharpton, who wields considerable influence among black voters in New York, continues to say he is neutral.

97.   Some colleagues say the decision was made by his closest aides, who they say are more ambitious than the speaker and wield considerable influence over him.

98.   South Korea, for its part, has stubbornly used its considerable influence to block concessions to North Korea.

99.   Strikers also have received support from the Detroit-based United Auto Workers union, which wields considerable influence in the region.

100.   Such requirements have not obtained universal approval in European churches whose leaders exercise considerable influence within the Vatican.