41.   In July, Putin said the state had only picked up the cudgel against businessmen who sought to exercise political influence.

42.   In your wildest imagination, can you believe that not one of them exercised influence over their Head of State?

43.   It also gives regulated industries the opportunity to exercise considerable influence over their state regulators.

44.   It enables the donor to exercise continuing influence over the use to which the transferred wealth is put.

45.   Officials at City Hall said that LeFrak had approached mayor Rudolph Giuliani to see whether the mayor would exercise his influence over the Landmarks Commission.

46.   One would bar state and county political leaders, who exercise major influence over the selection of judges, from getting fiduciary appointments.

47.   Precisely how this benign influence will be exercised is less clear, however.

48.   Rice, for her part, has clearly exercised more influence, and done so more visibly, than predicted.

49.   Samaranch, who nevertheless can exercise great influence on the voting, was criticized for accepting expensive gifts from Salt Lake City bid officials.

50.   She was demonstrating that businesslike women could exercise influence at the highest levels without false modesty or social pretense.