"People are unwilling to admit that she was influential, but she is," Lynes says.
She's very powerful, she's very influential and she says what she thinks.
She heads our list because she is influential as well as popular.
So Spain still thinks she's influential in Latin America and Portugal still thinks she's influential in Brazil.
Some think she upset influential creditors or rivals; some that she refused to pay bribes.
She is influential — her cultic following included the young Alan Greenspan — but she is contemned by many intellectuals and is no patron saint to the bloggers at Secular Right.
She also launched an in-person event series where she interviews influential people in music, fashion and media.
She was influential with him; the financier Thomas Gresham and the diplomat Richard Morrison sought her patronage, and she also interceded for Mary Tudor, who had stood godmother to one of her daughters in 1545.
She has influential friends.
She is influential, if under the radar.
