To prevent further bloodshed, Hughes used his influence and the respect he commanded among younger Real IRA members at O'Connor's funeral to persuade them to avoid getting into a murderous feud.
And if Mr. Gore loses in the Florida Supreme Court, he must recognize that the support he has commanded among fellow Democrats in Congress is sure to crumble quickly.
In the later years of Suharto's autocratic, 32-year presidency, Mr. Wahid became a leading critic who enjoyed a measure of impunity because of his position as a Muslim leader and the affection and respect he commanded among many Indonesians.
Origin, for all the affection it commands among scientisis, has been, time and again as the evidence in support of evolution mounts.
The home secretary, Theresa May, has publicly criticised Hogan-Howe over stop and search and also warned the police on race, attacking them for the low confidence they command among black communities.
Although a testament to the respect he commands among all parties, Mr. Napolitano's re-election was a controversial solution that underscored the profound difficulties that Italy's established parties face in adapting to new economic and social realities.
But the respect he commands among many Muslims, combined with his secular outlook, could make him the ideal man for the job.He could also prove to be a more democratic choice than Miss Megawati.
It still, however, has its coercive power, and the fanatical loyalty Mr Hussain commands among many of the MQM's foot-soldiers.It also has the power to embarrass Britain, for Mr Hussain is a British citizen.
In a remarkable display of how much loyalty Mr. Chalabi commands among some Americans, one Pentagon official opened his laptop computer to display a photograph of Mr. Chalabi and King Abdullah to refute the recent statements by the king that he had never met Mr. Chalabi.
For all the respect Parcells still commands among the Jets for the turnaround he performed with the franchise as a coach and director of football operations, the cloak of fear and secrecy that shrouded the organization in those years has at last been lifted.
The seemingly all-powerful junta, which jails its opponents and crushes popular uprisings by force, is afraid of Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi, 63, the pro-democracy opposition leader in the country formerly known as Burma, and of the continuing undercurrent of support she commands among the people.
