These were often difficult to achieve, since they undercut the power bases of influential men at court.
But others attested to the power of an influential mentor.
It meant reining in the power of the influential families that control the handful of South Korea's dominant conglomerates, known as chaebol.
Due to illness Belin had delegated much of his role to Berthelot, further increasing the power of his influential Third Bureau.
Until now, the real power of an influential interest group rested in its ability to frighten voters and defeat populist ballot initiatives that threatened business as usual.
Last week, our HuffPost-Patch Power Outsiders poll of influential Republicans in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina found two thirds satisfied with the current crop of candidates and only 8percentt offering Palin when asked who else they would like to see run in a follow-up question.
One early casualty, for instance, was "The Power of Nightmares," an influential three-part BBC series that argued that Al Qaeda does not exist, except as a kind of collective hallucination on the part of American neoconservatives.
By responding to the will of the people, Selvo helped shape a society that would eventually create a complicated system to check the power of its most influential members, create cooperative governmental branches that checked each other's power, and fuse the nation into a classical republic.
At the moment I have the basic "My Little Pop Icons" series and also the "My Little Pop Icons - Ponies of Power" series, which consists of influential historical female characters and studies authority, power and the interaction of all these elements.
At the end of 2010, Ms. Kennedy was named to the Ebony Power 100, a list of influential African-Americans.
