He was cordial, even after I steered the conversation to the campaign contributions Coffey and his partners had dished out over the years to politicians with sway over public pension funds their law firm hoped to turn into clients.
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Between the world wars, when the British Empire held sway over the subcontinent, adventurers came from far and wide to map the region's valleys and scale its highest summits.
Most of the Sunni Arabs, the province's largest group, boycotted the last elections in 2005, so the Kurds ended up with a disproportionately large chunk of the provincial government (31 out of 41 seats in the council) and hold sway over the hapless Mr Kashmoula and the council chairman, whom the insurgents curse as puppets and traitors.
The next chairman will have less sway over the regional bank presidents.
The government would also gain some sway over the supreme board of judges and prosecutors, another secular stronghold that picks most court officials.
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The idea of marketing men having more sway over the men in white coats angers some traditionalists.
In the background of the exhibition are the Medici, the wool-traders turned bankers who held sway over the Florentine republic in its golden age under Lorenzo the Magnificent, and who produced popes and queens and Tuscan grand dukes until the last of the dynasty died in 1737.
There is no mention of a Lib Dem pledge to repeal the controversial Digital Economy Bill, passed in the dying days of the Labour government, and on the funding of high speed broadband the Conservative policy of relying on the market with possible help from the BBC licence fee, appears to have held sway over the Lib Dem landline tax proposal.
As the gatekeeper of the well-funded Senate Conservative Fund, DeMint held huge sway over the selection and financial support for Senate candidates across the country.
Until now, the National Union of Education Workers (SNTE) has held sway over the criteria for being appointed and retained, a practice that has led to posts being inherited or sold.
In an election year where the Tea Party holds sway over a number of economic issues, fighting the tax levied through cable bundling by ESPN and its followers should be front and center.
By the 1930s, under the chairmanship of Ernest Oppenheimer, De Beers' cartel had near total sway over the trade.
In general, alleged pension conflicts like those the SEC are looking into can take several forms, but they all come back to the sway consultants exercise over pension trustees.
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There is a case, too, for giving the mayor more sway over education: power is rightly being devolved by local authorities to individual schools, but Westminster still keeps too much to itself.
Non-conformists resented the fact that, as Holly Brewer of the University of Maryland has noted, the monarch in some ways had more sway over American Anglicans than he did over the Church of England.
In his sights is a status unrivaled in the raw materials sector since Cecil Rhodes held sway over much of southern Africa in the 19th century through the diamond trading company he founded, De Beers.
Between the two of them, Rwanda and Uganda now hold sway over more than half of the entire country.
Going after Aron's cash would complicate matters with Riverstone, which still wields sway over the board.
There's a new group of businesses in town trying to sway the debate over climate change.
Mr Putin's sway over the Duma will depend more on his negotiating skills after the election than on campaigning before it.
In New York conservatives were given sway over the party's platform, which called for changing the constitution to ban gay marriage.
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But he held sway over the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) for a decade after that as the master manipulator of money and factions.
Muslim leaders would have little sway over the political opinions of the angry young even if they had not been publicly emasculated in the past year.
He is now a political force more powerful than just about any senator and has far more sway over the electorate than Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele.
While he said he had no reservations about adopting the target, Mr. Shirakawa warned against any belief that the central bank has sway over people's price expectations, a core element of reflationist thinking.
Nokia's dream phone of the future may at the moment be nothing more than a few plastic mock-ups and a lot of imagination, but it clearly has a powerful sway over the researchers who conceived it.
The NRA, which is regrouping in anticipation of that massive legislative push, will make its presence felt through congressional testimony and wielding the type of political sway the pro-gun lobby has carefully amassed over dozens of election cycles, experts said.
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And while these clubs do welcome the public, the best tour operators, meaning those with an office in the country and doing a lot of business with the clubs, have more sway over getting tee times.
Committed liberals and conservatives rarely persuade each other, but public debates over policy can rally the base and sway the undecided.
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