Career bureaucrats are among the best educated and most influential officials in Japan.

Referee Magazine has considered him one of the most influential officials in the history of sports.

The contributions were backed up by politically influential officials of the companies.

He found widespread support in Boston, particularly among socially prominent and influential officials.

The organization counts among its 25,000 members some of the most influential officials in the Bush administration.

This time, however, Raisa's champions included influential public officials and private citizens.

Kuusinen became an influential official in the Soviet state administration.

Other influential officials are in no rush to turn back the clock on deregulation.

One such attack sees an influential official killed, though his wife and son manage to escape thanks to the intervention of a close ally.

This would have made him one of the most important and influential officials during these years.