21.  Given that, it was inevitable that Latinos would become a politically powerful group.

22.  In addition, an angry backlash among overseas Chinese in other Asian countries could do long-term damage if this economically powerful group decides to take its business elsewhere.

23.  In a series of interviews last year, Ruiz said powerful political groups had ordered Jose Francisco Ruiz killed because of his plans for reforming the PRI.

24.  In Jaffna, many Tamils fear that powerful Sinhalese nationalist groups may force Mrs. Kumaratunga to pull back from her concessions.

25.  Individual accounts are strongly opposed by powerful groups that lobby for the elderly and relatively few Democrats have publicly endorsed any shift toward an investment-oriented approach.

26.  It is a powerful group to oppose, Mrs. Hart realizes.

27.  It also raised questions about the activities of the powerful political group with which several of the men were affiliated, the Cuban American National Foundation.

28.  It was made swiftly, secretly and with a willingness to offend powerful constituent groups that it had long courted.

29.  It takes integrity to buck a powerful lobbying group on bills that are too obscure to interest most voters.

30.  Just weeks ago, top foundation officials denied that the powerful lobbying group was undergoing widespread internal conflict.