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The Muslim Scholars' Board, an influential gathering of Sunni clergy who broadly back the insurgents, has told Iraqis to boycott January's election, which it said would be held "over the remains of the dead and the blood of the wounded in Iraq's cities".

Her action in opposing the mullah has been backed by the Ulema - an influential gathering of Islamic clerics and scholars.

As the economic crisis hit East Asia and the Pacific, tugging further down a region already beleaguered by the weight of increased food and fuel prices, the UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office stepped up the impetus for social protection relief by assembling an influential gathering of analysts, academics and high-ranking government officials.

The original and extremely influential Gathering Storm report of 2005 was notable for spreading a highly controversial alarm about a supposed scientist shortage in the United States and introducing corny meteorological metaphors to the national science-policy discussion.

Miami Music Week, WMC, and the Ultra Music Festival combined to create one of the most exciting and influential gatherings for EDM music today.

Richard Attias, Chairman of the Columbia University Center on Capitalism and Society and creator of the New York Forum, has spent his career developing some of the most influential gatherings of global leaders in the last 20 years.

The movie, his first foray into filmmaking, was scheduled to be screened on Saturday as part of the independent film festival at Comic-Con, the influential annual gathering of the comics industry and fans in San Diego.

So says Phil Chetwynd, head of AFP, head of one of the largest and most influential news gathering organizations in the world.

Last week at the annual RSA Conference in San Francisco, the most influential computer security gathering in the world, I listened to speakers outline a bewildering variety of threats that rain down on networked systems every day.

This week in New York, the world's most powerful and influential leaders are gathering to discuss some of the most pressing issues of our time: the conflict in Syria, nuclear disarmament, eradication of extreme poverty, the promotion of human rights and more.

Mr. Beck, along with Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker who led the Republican revolution in 1994, were among those who championed limited government and lower taxes at the three-day gathering of influential conservatives.