31.  Last July, a powerful group of software and Internet companies with instant messaging products decided to take a different tack.

32.  Most forms of entertainment have been banned by the increasingly powerful Muslim group in government.

33.  Moreover, runway construction in Britain collides with powerful environmental groups and civic protesters who have slowed virtually every expansion of runway and airport capacity.

34.  Netanyahu, a master at lobbying Congress, will meet in Washington with Jewish leaders, congressmen, and AIPAC, the powerful Israeli lobbying group.

35.  Off the Senate floor, powerful lobbying groups on both sides of the dispute continued their fight.

36.  Opposition from powerful groups such as the Congressional Black Caucus is still escalating, Schroeder said.

37.  Perhaps it is not surprising that talent agents are the one powerful group in Hollywood bypassed for full membership.

38.  Potentially they are a powerful group whenever they do organize.

39.  Powerful groups?

40.  So bankers, brokers and insurers -- among the most powerful lobbying groups in Congress -- butt heads as they jockey for position to increase their respective profits.