According to observers of the French national side, Zidane's influence rivals that of Didier Deschamps, the captain, and it said that if they do not rate a player, he does not make it into the team.
Three years ago, in Berkeley, California, he joined with Imam Zaid Shakir, an tall, slender Oakland-born black convert whose influence rivals Yusuf's, and a Muslim academic named Dr. Hatem Bazian to found Zaytuna College, the first Muslim liberal-arts college in the United States.
As a special White House adviser to Mr. Obama, however, Mr. Summers could have influence rivaling the Treasury secretary's own.
Mr. Romney says natural resources could vault Russia to a position of global influence rivaling any nation by midcentury.
Soviet foreign policy represented "a cautious, persistent pressure toward the disruption and weakening of all rival influence and rival power".
In the next decade, Blavatnik and Vekselberg exerted political influence, defeated rivals, and amassed enough smelters and plants that their company, Sual, became the second-biggest aluminum firm in Russia; in 2007, it was merged into U.C. Rusal, the world's largest.
Mr. Mandelson's memoir, "The Third Man: Life at the Heart of New Labour," seems calculated to embellish his reputation as the ultimate Downing Street insider, using unrivaled access, influence (and, rivals would say, a careless attitude about scruples) to shape the course of British politics.
As a result, their influence may rival that of any denominational leader in the country.
But he has already had an outsize influence, forcing rival politicians — including the prime minister, Mark Rutte, — to shift their policies and rhetoric in his direction.
From this vast trove, curator John E. Malmstad chose books, letters, and manuscripts that illuminated Pushkin's life, career, and the world of influences and rivals that shaped Russia's most important literary voice.
And Vice President Dick Cheney and former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz notably vowed to do everything they could to head it off — up to and including ensuring that close European allies never aspired to power and influence to rival the United States.
