In the 1970s and early 1980s he was chairman of the South African Bureau of Racial Affairs, a conservative organization that served as a government advisory board, and he was a leader of Broederbond, an influential society of Afrikaners whose aim was to further the cause of Afrikaner nationalism in South Africa.
He also staged magnificent receptions -- a "Venetian Fete" and fancy-dress balls -- on the museum premises, and since influential society and art world people crowded to them from New York and abroad, he got glowing reports in the press, convincing the otherwise skeptical locals that he was indeed putting Hartford on the international cultural map.
She did her best to gain him the attention of influential society, though with limited success.
A Bush win in 2016 would also cement the predictive power of Washington's secretive and influential dining society the Alfalfa club, set up a century ago to celebrate, with an annual banquet, the birthday of the Confederate general Robert E Lee.
The mayor of the city, who used to be an influential civil society figure, and his former colleagues, moved from the civil society sector to government.
But once word got out, an influential cooperative society of milk producers said that milk, and not tea, should be declared the Indian national drink.
Last week Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, who leads an influential clerical society in the holy city of Qum, wrote a rare public letter to Mr. Ahmadinejad warning him that price increases are leading to serious problems.
Settled by the English in 1670, South Carolina had a wealthy, aristocratic, and influential colonial society based on a plantation agriculture that relied on a labour force of black slaves.
Initiated with the Montreal Protocol in 1978, the focus on embracing environmentally friendly refrigeration alternatives has been accelerated through influential civil society campaigns, government action, and the commitment of visionary companies.
By the mid-60's Mr. Favors and Mr. Mitchell moved into the circle of the pianist Muhal Richard Abrams, whose Experimental Band provided the initial spark for the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (or A.A.C.M ., an influential cooperative society in jazz.
Together with the Co-operative, we brought together leaders from some of this country's most respected and influential civil society organisations, including the Women's Institute and the National Trust, together with the experts such as Low Carbon Communities Network, Communities and Climate Action Alliance, and PURE Leapfrog.
