71.   Local administration chiefs, at the village and sub-district level, are extremely influential figures during general elections.

72.   President Lee Teng-hui, still an influential political figure, convened the march.

73.   Regime officials have been meeting with local leaders across the country to drum up backing, especially among influential tribal figures.

74.   Rothenberg remains an influential figure on the USSF board and he and Contiguglia usually agree.

75.   Sata is seen as an influential figure in Zambian politics who is especially popular among grass-roots activists.

76.   Statements even by very influential figures now do not help.

77.   Thaci is considered one of the most influential figures in the shadowy rebel movement, which is fighting for independence from Serbia, the main republic of Yugoslavia.

78.   Steiner became an influential figure in his three years as adviser to Schroeder, who backed his appointment to the Kosovo job.

79.   Still, after the more than five-week struggle, many ethnic Albanians appeared too radicalized to heed any appeal for peace, even from such influential figures.

80.   Such influential figures are still common throughout Thailand, despite significant victories by pro-democracy advocates over the past decades against military rule and old-style money politics.