Yet this alarming fact has failed to register with influential segments of the population, including developers who keep building unsustainable subdivisions and farmers who keep growing unsustainable crops.

Also, as the nation's population profile gets older, there is a growing demand for the kind of "mature" actors with whom a large and influential segment of the population can identify.

He is statistically even with Ms. Messinger among Hispanic voters, an increasingly influential segment of the city's electorate.

At 76 million strong, the "baby boom" generation represents the largest, wealthiest, and most influential segment of the U.S. population.

For an influential segment of Republicans, opposition to abortion is the determining factor in how they vote and a matter that cannot be compromised.

But as the nation's major advertisers start participating in large-scale efforts to battle the disease, so, too, are country artists, their record labels and other influential segments of the Nashville community.

In America, 45% of women under 44 currently don?t have children, and I thought it was time the media and marketers began speaking to this influential segment of women.

"With a big pour, the bartender makes his money by keeping his customer happy," he said, adding that the "stiff drink" argument is only intended to appeal to the influential religious segment of the state's voters.

In an unusual twist, the government's plan is also opposed by many property developers, the most politically influential segment of the city's business community, who usually are adversaries of the Democratic Party in the legislature.

Disenchantment with the size of the budget has spread to veterans groups, which constitute a small but influential segment of the Republican base.