Most workers lack strong influence over most of the issues that affect them directly at work.
Iran now has strong influence over Beirut, Damascus, Baghdad and Sana'a.
Ibama agents privately suggest that Governor Maggi exerts a strong influence over Mato Grosso's state environmental agency.
Under the terms of the bailout, the troika will have strong influence over a bank sector rescue.
And the car and oil industries have unusually strong influence over public policy a factor Mr Lovins may have underestimated.
Throughout Bayreuth's history, the family has exerted strong influence over the festival; today, Wagner's great-granddaughters Eva Wander-Pasquier and Katharina Wagner are co-directors.
"The main reason beauty bloggers in the Middle East have a strong influence over their followers is due to cultural reasons," Durand says.
Still others pointed to Baathists loyal to Saddam Hussein, or pointed to Iran, which they said exercised a strong influence over the government and some Shiite militias.
Barack Obama's election in the US bucked the trend, but the Republicans and indeed the Tea Party now exert very strong influence over US policy following recent elections.
Government policy makers do not have the tools to exert such a strong influence over pretax earnings, even if they wanted to do so.
However, despite his avowed desire to remain above the political fray, the grand ayatollah has had a strong influence over the evolution of post-war Iraq.
