The bounce he got for brokering the still solid peace treaty between Egypt and Israel faded quickly, though not before saddling him with the lasting hostility of an influential portion of the domestic "pro-Israel" lobby.
Last week, I compared Rick Perry in 2012 to Barack Obama in 2008: Like Obama four years ago, Perry doesn't have the profile of an ideal general election candidate, but he's the kind of figure that an influential portion of his party's primary electorate is eager to find a reason to support.
Santorum's success going forward clearly depends on his ability to parlay his anti-birth control, anti-gay rights, views into support in upcoming primaries in states like South Carolina and Florida, where conservative Christians constitute an influential portion of the GOP electorate.
To focus our attention on the most influential portion of the network, we created subsets of each network that omitted all nodes with only one link (referred to hereafter as the "focal" version of the network; Fig. 1).
In fact, new teachers often point to their field experiences as the most influential and valuable portions of their teacher preparation [30].
If portion size is influential then visual information is essential in our estimation of this phenomenon: but is it the actual portion size that is important in increasing intake rather than our perception of the portion size.
For many wine lovers, the news that Robert M. Parker Jr. is planning to sell a portion of his influential newsletter, The Wine Advocate, to a group of Asian investors and step down as editor in chief does not so much signal an end of an era as acknowledges changes that have been under way for a decade.
Even if portion size is influential during a single or a few meals, does it offer a practical means of intervening over the longer period?
He was an enthusiastic proponent of photography as a scientific instrument, and back in England he researched portions of his highly influential books from photographs alone, often of sites he had never seen.
An increasing portion of papers in influential journals contain very extensive lists of authors.
