1.   Voluntary organisations, speaking on the basis of our wide experience in local communities and in national life, are an influential voice which is respected throughout society.

2.   Although Specter will remain an influential voice in intelligence policy in the new Congress, he is obliged by rule to relinquish his seat on the intelligence committee.

3.   As a consequence, each has loaned his influential voice to those calling for Republicans to stand together behind their speaker.

4.   Democrats are trying to protect the administration, especially Vice President Al Gore, who has been an influential voice in Russia policy.

5.   Domenici, an influential voice in fiscal policy, staked out his position in the weekly Republican radio address.

6.   He is an influential voice of old school values.

7.   In the last decade, the governors association has become an influential voice on domestic social policy, and governors helped shape the new welfare law.

8.   It also symbolized one of the legislative fronts where religious conservatives, an influential political voice, hope the Republican leadership will act more aggressively.

9.   It was the first indication that Lott, arguably the most influential Republican voice on Capitol Hill, would be supportive of a settlement.

10.   Linda Chavez was one of the most powerful Hispanic officials in the Reagan administration, with an influential voice in Hispanic affairs.