The strategy was basically a search for support (mostly in the form of letters) from influential third parties.

We have to get a dialog going between influential parties on both sides.

It has been a major and influential party in the country.

"We have visited struggling families," he added, with the general goal of "making my party influential and important."

For the graduating students, the exhibition is an opportunity to interact with society, future employers, the media and other influential parties.

His supporters were still an influential political party for some years after his death.

New York is unique among states in that it has influential third parties.

The "system" is not by design, law, or mandate, and for some of US history there were more than two influential parties.

It would go on to become the most influential political party in the early years of post-independence Somalia.

It was said to be Egypt's most popular and influential political party for a period in the 1920s and 30s.