Examples include family, childhood friends, and highly influential social groups.

Prosecutors and leaders of influential Catholic groups praised the plan.

Finally, influential groups can pressure and sway the interests of the government to their favor.

In 1949 another influential group, the Club, formally met for the first time.

He led that influential group during the player strikes of 1982 and 1987.

Here we simply need to control some key members of the nobility and influential religious groups.

The most influential group of the period may have been Big Star.

"It may be small but it's an important and influential group."

And the potential savings for two influential groups are even more striking.

There's a pretty influential group there who think you're going to be our next president.