For many, the lack of media attention is a glaring reminder of the scant influence Latinos wield in the country's leading newsrooms.
In a further reflection of the region's scant influence, for the fifth straight election not one of the presidential or vice-presidential debates is to be held in any of the eight states.
Moderate Republican voters, governors and financial backers will be horrified if the present confrontation leads to a constitutional crisis or global economic meltdown, but they have scant influence over the radicals in the Tea Party caucus.
I would hope that one of the more public-spirited developers will invite him to sit in on a project meeting so that he can view firsthand what scant influence the self-referential world of academic architecture has on building in New York, or, for that matter, anywhere in the country.
Since his expulsion at a time when Soviet power seemed secure, the prophet has had scant influence, either abroad or back home.
Teachers and principals often labor in factory settings with factory rules and scant influence to reconfigure the assembly line.
He added that Washington has scant influence over the HIPC process because it pays little towards meeting the costs of the debt write-offs.
Christian de Portzamparc and Mr. Ando, who received the prize in 1994 and 1995 respectively, are architects of considerable talent whose work has had scant influence on their peers.
Lawmakers have not had a raise since 1999, and Mr. Silver put down a rebellion in 2000, leaving those who remain in the Assembly, or who have been elected since, with diminished prestige and scant influence on the operations of the chamber.
But the gap between Mr. Bloomberg's ambitious plan and actually putting it in place is wide: Unlike the Police Department and the school system, the transportation authority is subject to scant influence by the mayor, who controls only 4 of 14 votes on the authority's board.
