In the time of Howard Golden, who was Borough President from 1978 to 2002, the desk was positioned at the far end of the room, so that visitors were obliged to make a processional approach to the seat of influence.
WASHINGTON — Representative Charles B. Rangel stepped down on Wednesday as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee after losing support within his party because of ethics violations, shaking up the Democratic power structure in the House and costing New York a powerful seat of influence in Congress.
It all underscored the strange dissonance that accompanies the power changeover that's under way in Washington, and the unsettling sense that no one, not even those in the seats of influence, has any clue what President Trump really believes or is likely to do.
Personalities such as film director Ava DuVernay advocates for dropping the word in favour of "inclusion", which suggests including POC in the right seats of influence (casting directors, managers, directors etc), and I agree.
Perhaps if there was an orderly economic succession plan that allowed the nation to bridge from one economy to the next, we'd have more champions of change in seats of influence.
This meant that only those loyal to the regime, rather than to their readers, could go places and get to the seats of influence and power in the paper.
The Mission Hotel, home to poverty, despair and, residents said, a steady market for drugs and sex behind its faded green walls, has long been an improbable seat of political influence in San Francisco.
In other words, it's still a seat of power and influence, belied by an overwhelmingly down-to-earth and friendly welcome.
In recent days protesters have begun to move from the encampment in Pearl Square, the symbolic center of the nation, to the actual seat of power and influence, the Royal Court and the financial district.
Car seats have inclined backrests and inclined seat-pans, but there has been little study of how the inclinations of the surfaces of a seat influence the transmission of fore-and-aft vibration through the backrest.
Alcmaeon's influence was significant in three final ways: 1) His identification of the brain as the seat of human intelligence influenced Philolaus (DK, B13), the Hippocratic Treatise, On the Sacred Disease, and Plato (Timaeus 44d), although a number of thinkers including Empedocles and Aristotle continued to regard the heart as the seat of perception and intelligence.
