In each of those states, Latinos significantly increased their share of total voters, gaining influence that could be decisive in future elections.
Kram writes that Ali was a follower, and a useful idiot with a name for Elijah Muhammad, the Muslim leader, to gain influence; that Ali's prefight histrionics were rooted in fear, not self-confidence; that the affinity liberals felt for him as a leader was misguided and that he ignores his daughter Khaliah, whose mother, Aaisha, suffers from lupus.
Given a prediction, whether or not someone ever gets diabetes or coronary disease is less important than having the knowledge that they have gained influence their behaviors in ways that make it less likely that they will get these diseases.
That places him squarely at odds with a wing of the party that gained influence under Bill Clinton, who used a recent speech to argue against the notion that the party needed to return to its liberal roots.
Hettner's ideas were increasingly challenged in his later life, especially by proponents of a holistic landscape concept that gained influence in the 1920s and 1930s.
But now, having gained influence, it may be time that the field reconsiders.
27 Stevens concluded that bioethics gained influence because it helped legitimate research and clinical practice: avoiding fundamental questions about medical power and formulating guidelines 'for the use of procedures and technologies that it largely accepted as inevitable'.
Given that hardliners have gained influence since the killing stopped, the constituency for real truth-telling (probing all dirty secrets) is weak.
He wrote, "No small part of our current economic difficulties can be traced to ignorant zealots who gained influence by providing answers to questions that others labeled as meaningless or difficult.
Over the decade that followed, Anwar and Mahathir steadily gained influence.
