But the bloc's newer member states, including Poland, have grown more influential since then.
Topless dancers have disappeared from major Wall Street firms, which have become vastly larger and more influential since the boom-boom-room days.
With more people in Congress, House committee members could see to this critical business themselves -- and therefore be more influential, since a phone call from an actual member is a lot more effective than a request from the committee staff.
The Whole Earth Catalog may have been his most famous creation, but he's been involved in dozens of other, possibly even more influential, projects since.
Playing the West off against Russia has stood Mr Lukashenko in good stead for most of his 17 years in power.Belarusian analysts note that the security apparatus has grown more influential in Belarus since 2010, and has little to gain from leniency.
No product of medieval Christianity has been more influential in the centuries since the Middle Ages than medieval thought, particularly the philosophy and theology of Scholasticism, whose outstanding exponent was Thomas Aquinas (1224/25 1274).
But while the importance of the first two is much diminished, the Corporation, the least reformed of all, is more influential than it has been since its medieval heyday.Dating back to the early 12th century, it owes its survival to what Tony Travers, professor of local government at the London School of Economics, calls a "steely determination" to maintain its power.
But if the association is due to influence, then we would expect ego-perceived friends to be more influential then alter-perceived friends, since, in the latter case, the ego may not even know a person who has named them as a friend.
In the analysis of only one chromosome, the polygenic terms played a more influential role (results not shown), since they can absorb genetic effects from the rest of the genome (cf. [ 40]).
While it's possible to argue that no book has been more influential, and that all western writing since 800BCE has somehow borne the Iliad's imprint, it's also difficult to think of any book quite like it.
But as the Palestinians push for recognition as a state at the United Nations later this month, the European Union is finding itself courted by each side, and therefore more influential on the Middle East process than at any time since the Oslo Accords.
