At precisely 8 p.m., as news ricocheted across Twitter that The Des Moines Register was giving its influential endorsement to Mitt Romney, Mr. Gingrich put on his reading glasses — to examine the program.
Today, The Los Angeles Times, noting the secession movement and other strains in the city, gave its influential endorsement to Mr. Villaraigosa, saying Los Angeles "needs an imaginative leader who can see and act on the big picture".
His view was given its most influential support by William James, in 1884, although he also acknowledged that the idea seemed to run counter to most people's experience.
Consider the recent enactment of the California Consumer Privacy Act, which is likely to be very influential given its scope of application, or Vermont's data-broker legislation.
The review is likely to be influential, given its source: the Committee on Policy Matters of the Council for Science and Technology, which is chaired by the prime minister and serves as the nation's highest science advisory body.
Saudi Arabia last month made clear its pique over U.S. policy in the region when it rejected a seat on the United Nations Security Council, normally considered an influential platform given its members' ability to set the world body's agenda.
Although the country's influential Orthodox Church has given its support to the project, opinion polls show that half of Athens's five million residents oppose the creation of a mosque to serve the capital's Muslim community, which numbers about 500,000.
The school gave its name to the influential Douai-Reims version of the Bible, translated by Gregory Martin under Allen's direction.
After a modest start in the tumultuous 1930s, the Annales achieved prominence after World War II and gave its name to an influential international school of historical research.
Germany's influential science advisory panel gave its full support to plans announced earlier this month by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFGFG) to further improve its Graduiertenkollegs and would like to see such doctoral training groups established throughout Germany's university sector.
