1.   Meanwhile the NGOs, which are increasingly influential players at global summits, are also making their preparations.

2.   America remains the single most influential player in the Middle East.

3.   As some conservative journals have noted recently, more than a few influential players have experienced epiphanies.

4.   Agents were on the fringes in the prewar days when the academy was organized, but today they are among the most influential players in piecing together film projects.

5.   He has become an insider, and an influential player in what some call the most exclusive club in the world-the U.S. Senate.

6.   Moorehead presides over one of the largest evangelical Christian congregations in Washington, making the pastor an influential political player.

7.   The Christian Coalition has become an influential player and is viewed as heavily tilted toward the GOP.

8.   The majority of players declined to endorse Rambis, and certain influential players clearly had problems with him, but a few offered praise.

9.   Three major ones are Milloy, Law, and Troy Brown, who are among the most influential players on the team.

10.   But the Gunners will be without midfielder Vieira, probably their most influential player, because of the number of yellow cards he has collected this season.