There is also a small but influential faction tied to Rogerio Lobato, minister of internal administration, who before independence spent much time in Angola, where he once went to jail for diamond smuggling.As president, Mr Gusmão has been a stabilising influence so far.
The second and most influential approach tied the significative power of an utterance to its making known a concept.
Many of the most influential citizens have ties to the basketball program.
There has been speculation whether the new president, Xi Jinping, whose influential family has ties to Tibet and whose father is pictured below meeting with the Dalai Lama's brother, 26 years ago, would be able to craft a new policy.
A web of oil and gas interests in the West, as well as corporations and influential figures with ties to Russia, have greased the process of engagement with Russia.
An influential intermediate answer ties political authority to the realm of justice and grounds obedience in a natural duty: "This duty requires us to support and comply with just institutions that exist and apply to us.
As commander of the excubitores, a protopatrikios (first among the patrician order) and one of the few senior and influential officials with ties to past regimes, Priscus represented a potential threat to Heraclius.
"Buhari has successfully tied influential governors and former presidents, such as Rivers' governor Rotimi Amaechi and ex-vice-president Atiku Abubakar - both PDP defectors — to his campaign in order to rally support in states where the ruling party has an upper hand," political analyst Buhari Jega told VICE News.
This is the reasoning behind Granovetter's influential 'strength of weak ties' argument which implies that not also structural embedded ties are more likely to arise in a social network but they are also more persistent, a result corroborated by Burt in different works [13, 25].
Many politicians also questioned his known business ties with influential Iraqi businessmen and officials in Saddam Hussein's government.
