A tiny but influential community of Sikhs live in the country's cities, all engaged in retail commerce.

The invisible college is a more influential community than the visible college (or so it might seem).

Smalltalk and Prolog are also popular in small but influential communities.

Goel is a gotra of Agrawal, a large and influential community in India.

Early on in St. Louis, he had good relations with the influential German community.

What's more, the company has been on an acquisition kick, snapping up smaller, prestigious furniture companies favored by that influential community.

He is the unofficial head of the increasingly influential Anglo-Asian community.

Anyone regarded as influential within the digital technology community.

Through permanent collaboration and use of an innovative methodology this network has developed into an influential "community of practice" for cultural policies in Europe.

But she had to patch up a simmering feud with the state's influential black community to insure her victory.