This spring, however, a federal judge in Brooklyn issued a potentially influential order in a wrongful-conviction case in Queens, saying that under a 2009 Supreme Court ruling, issues related to the "supervision and training" of assistant district attorneys were not administrative matters, but prosecutorial ones, and so the city could not be held accountable for them.
Opus Dei, made most famous by Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code," but a real and influential order in the Church, has been dogged for years by allegations that it supported Pinochet's 1973 coup, and that its members were later active in the Pinochet regime.
In an attempt to avoid conflicts with the influential Order, the Bishop transferred the diocese's residence to Perona, where it was burned by Lithuanians ten years later.
The opposing faction, which put forward the counterclaims of Joan, included the archbishop of Toledo; a former supporter, the master of Calatrava (an influential military order); and the powerful young marqués de Villena.
The Jesuits, the largest and most influential order of Roman Catholic priests, pledged to strengthen their commitment to social justice, reaching out to women and other lay Catholics.
In their seminal work, Glowinski et al. [4] and Gabay et al. [5] independently developed the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM), which is an influential first-order method for solving problem (1).
As a young man, Mr. Martinez was a member of Regnum Christi, an evangelical group related to the Legionaries of Christ, an influential Roman Catholic order in Mexico that includes among its benefactors the billionaire Carlos Slim.
Anti-corruption protesters who had camped out in Baghdad's Green Zone started leaving on Sunday after Moktada al-Sadr, an influential Shiite cleric, ordered them to do so.
Children develop a pecking order, not as unidimensional as the dominance hierarchies of chickens and elephants, but nonetheless an influential youth-driven social order with a force of its own that each child can accept or reject, and that can accept or reject each child.
Mr. Sheikh, he said, "purposely set out to take hostage an acclaimed journalist from an influential American newspaper in order to change United States policies in the war on terrorism".
