People in Northern Ireland may not have heard of the MP, but he is well-known in political circles.
It also publishes City and State, a political biweekly that produces a daily email digest well-read in political circles.
On Chinese investment into the United States, suspicion runs high in political circles.
Analysts say there is concern about the quality of locally made drugs given widespread corruption in political circles in the East Africa nation.
Indeed, the brothers have funded opposition campaigns against so many Obama Administration policies from health-care reform to the economic-stimulus program that, in political circles, their ideological network is known as the Kochtopus.
It is an open secret in political circles that some African leaders are also intimated by Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, who remained a staunch ally of Col Gaddafi until his death.
Ms Onwurah had always remained active in political circles through her career in engineering, and when James 'Jim' Cousins stepped down, she stepped up, with Dr King's speech in the back of her mind.
Especially popular in academia and in political circles and among senior executives, the idea is to grab the glory for a project that you merely supervised or got started rather than spent hours executing.
As one analyst told me yesterday in Berlin, there is a tension in political circles, an awareness that key decisions will have to be made before summer and "all options are now on the table".
One such mammasantissima (ie, a very big shot), Bernardo Provenzano, who is still at large, is said to have told friends that this New Mafia must eschew bombs and shootings, and go back to backroom-deals with new friends in political circles just as in the old days.
This move has provoked speculation of a possible presidential bid. (It is worth noting that the Web address www.mike2008.com redirects viewers to www.mikebloomberg.com.) Bloomberg remains the subject of wide speculation in political circles, and his associates have said that he has carefully considered a run.
You will hear the term a lot in Welsh political circles today.
We must avoid the tendency that has become popular in some political circles to blame teachers and unions for the failings of our schools.
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But while Mr Hagel has many detractors among the neo-conservatives, he does not lack supporters in other political circles, including more centrist pro-Israeli groups such as J Street and the Israel Policy Forum.
DSK, as he is generally known in French political circles prides himself on his pragmatism, you cannot doubt his keenness on the euro: the last and most important step towards completing Europe's single market, he calls it.
Not a few people in legal and political circles believe the death penalty is out of step with the times, especially in a country with a democracy as robust as South Korea's.
In financial and political circles, it is regarded as a must-read title, so much so that its nickname is the "business bible".
Business associates and extended family were driven out with the strongman in 1986, and during the presidencies of Corazon Aquino and Fidel Ramos they were most unwelcome in corporate and political circles.
The idea is being floated in political and banking circles that a NAMA-style "bad bank" - similar to the model established in the Republic of Ireland - could be set up to remove these debts in the hope that this might free up bank lending once again.
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Local media have been reporting that Carlos Pascual, a Cuban-American expert on Europe and a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, is Obama's choice, but the fact that he wrote a report for the Brookings Institute on Iraq and the importance of reconstructing a failed state wasn't well received in political and government circles.
Economics is not a zero-sum game as was once thought, though in many intellectual and political circles today it is still regarded as such.
For many, both in foreign capitals, among the media elite and in Bush-hostile political circles, this is widely regarded as a very good thing.
Greece is certainly being told it must live up to its commitments, but talk of a Greek exit from the eurozone has suddenly disappeared from political circles in Berlin.
Mr Tapie, who has long been active in French business, sporting and political circles, sued Credit Lyonnais over its handling of the sale in 1993 of sportswear brand Adidas, in which he was a majority stakeholder.
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As Mr Holslag notes, the defeat in 1962 has left a deep suspicion of China in India's political, academic and diplomatic circles, which is reflected in public opinion.
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In London Wortley Montagu moved not only in the highest social and political circles, but also among the most eminent literary figures of her day.
He now chairs the mighty Den Danske bank, sits on many other boards and remains a force in Copenhagen's business and political circles.
In the view of many Iraqis outside political circles, this is an American debate about a problem they believe America created.
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