California's move up the primary ladder, therefore, does not diminish -it may enhance - the outsize influence these minor electoral-vote states unfortunately exert on Presidential nominations.

After partition, Kolkata continued to wield an outsize influence in the cultural and food habits of West Bengal.

New Hampshire, whose first-in-the-nation primary gives it outsize influence, is in an unusual position this year.

The price of oil, meanwhile, has an outsize influence on the pricing of the alternative energy sector.

All that, of course, has made him a target for Republicans and campaign finance reformers who consider him as a shadowy figure trying to have an outsize influence.

This trend comes as banks have curtailed bankers' ability to roam across industries, limiting them to specific sectors and, in effect, diminishing their once outsize influence.

Regrettably, that includes five out of the last six years (2005-2010), because the record industry's woes have given holiday sales an outsize influence on Billboard's chart year.

A bipartisan irritant from a state nowhere near the Mexican border, he has outsize influence on the fate of the country's estimated 11 million illegal immigrants.

She acts willfully naïve about her outsize influence over the president, as though she were just another West Wing official on the domestic side.

But the handiwork of this little office has had an outsize influence on the public face of the military and the government.