Ohio lawyer Stanley Chesley is rich, politically powerful, and married to a federal judge.
Countries with big populations are often politically powerful, but they are not so often prosperous.
Winning concessions from China's politically powerful oil refiners are among the challenges environmental regulators face.
He is widely believed to be one of the wealthiest and most politically powerful men in Iran.
Joining TPP is opposed by most of his party and Japan's small but politically powerful farming lobby.
Shareholder litigation will probably be led by a politically powerful state pension fund or equally powerful union pension fund.
Those hurt worst by the tax have traditionally been farmers and owners of small businesses, two politically powerful blocs.
Vocal and politically powerful aviation interests have argued that the budget cuts affecting their industry would hurt business, travelers and cost jobs.
It has won the support of the politically powerful MPAA because, unlike a typical search engine, Clicker presents only full-length legal fare.
Wednesday's hearings completed the fall of the once politically powerful Chicago couple.
Columbia is a very politically influential institution, whereas the mostly poor residents of the Harlem neighborhood around Columbia are mostly not politically powerful.
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First, there are the politically powerful forces bent on protecting various tax credits and preferences even if they are detrimental to the economy.
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Local governments and school districts blame programs and costs required by Albany, often won by politically powerful public worker unions, for many of them facing insolvency.
If that apparent conversion lasts (and it is notable that Congress's brief enthusiasm for gun-control laws evaporated overnight), it is likely to alarm Virginia's politically powerful gun lobby.
Unlike the more politically powerful Cuban refugees, the Nicaraguans for years lived in a limbo-like status: not given political asylum, yet regularly granted work permits and made to feel welcome.
Miner, who doesn't ask for aid or a bailout, says she wants to work with the governor to come up with more cost-reduction measures, many of which were won by politically powerful unions in Albany.
With so much common ground on policy, the race became a duel over character issues as well as a referendum on who was closer to politically powerful municipal unions often criticized for landing generous raises and benefits.
Mr. Murphy, a former aide to city Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, has the support of some of the city's largest and most politically powerful unions, such as 1199 SEIU, which represents health-care workers, and the Hotel Trades Council.
John Kerry, who now becomes the senior senator from Massachusetts, has been a prominent and politically powerful figure -- a presidential candidate in 2004 -- he has largely stayed out of the limelight and focused his attention on international issues.
By the end of a two-hour meeting, Thompson had agreed to a deal: if Massachusetts passed the plan, the federal government would keep the money flowing, though it would go to subsidize people buying insurance, and not to politically powerful hospitals.
"He's got to get really serious about budget control and really defend and enforce this budget if he's going to hold conservatives with him in the November elections, " said Stephen Moore, president of the Club for Growth, a politically powerful conservative group.
The change would be poorly timed from a political standpoint, though: At the same time as legislators are trying to take away the lucrative carried-interest tax break from hedge-fund operators, Treasury would be giving it to another group of well-heeled and politically powerful professionals.
But Tyson's proposal could spark a backlash from politically powerful business groups and meet with stiff opposition from Republicans in the U.S. Congress, who see environmental regulation and international accords like the Kyoto Agreement on greenhouse-gas emissions as a threat to opening markets and increasing trade around the globe.
The construction of politically-powerful new constituencies in Western nations with a vested financial interest in ensuring that the borrowing nation is not subject to future economic sanctions or other forms of international isolation and penalties.
So is this sort of setting up a confrontation between Ali Sistani, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani and Muqtada al Sadr, who is very powerful politically?
The Post obituary page, when not chronicling the passage of the once-powerful and politically connected, headlined each obit with a concise job title.
He firmly denies that - and, for many Georgians, a less antagonistic approach when dealing with the country's huge and powerful neighbour seems economically and politically sensible.
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Fiji has been rocked by three coups since 1987, fuelled by fears among indigenous Fijians that economically powerful ethnic Indian community would politically dominate the islands in the Pacific.
Politically, a yuppie bailout would certainly appeal to powerful Democratic constituencies, not just the teachers' unions.
The Federal Communications Commission could hasten this process, but it's been politically reluctant to do so--why upset thousands of local pols and the powerful TV and cable industries?
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