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  • This was published in 1962 and was very influential in the West.†   (source)
  • Ever since its opening in 1905, the hotel's suites and restaurants had been a gathering spot for the glamorous, influential, and erudite; but the effortless elegance on display would not have existed without the services of the lower floor: Coming off the wide marble steps that descended from the lobby, one first passed the newsstand, which offered a gentleman a hundred headlines, albeit now just in Russian.†   (source)
  • I just received a call from an influential American bishop.†   (source)
  • Influential criminologists predicted a coming wave of "super-predators" with whom the juvenile justice system would be unable to cope.†   (source)
  • And while the council technically makes decisions together, Marcus is particularly influential.†   (source)
  • He has many powerful and attractive and influential friends.†   (source)
  • Everyone here seemed to have been invited because they were connected to somebody well-known or influential… everyone except Ginny.†   (source)
  • As an influential Nazi, Schindler did have a choice.†   (source)
  • There were diplomats and all sorts of influential people.†   (source)
  • Miss Johnson was the most influential person in my life when I was in grade school.†   (source)
  • As the Yale computer scientist David Gelernter says, "Bill Joy is one of the most influential people in the modern history of computing/' The story of Bill Joy's genius has been told many times, and the lesson is always the same.†   (source)
  • The Hammonds were one of the most powerful and influential families in the state.†   (source)
  • She is very influential, a celebrity in her own right.†   (source)
  • Getting to the top, proclaimed Gunther O. Dyrenfurth, an influential alpinist and chronicler of early Himalayan mountaineering, was "a matter of universal human endeavor, a cause from which there is no withdrawal, whatever losses it may demand."†   (source)
  • How he has shot very influential men in cold blood and dropped fire bombs from the air that can burn up a whole field of crops in ten seconds flat.†   (source)
  • "My father is most influential, and I'm sure he'd be only too happy to sing your praises."†   (source)
  • "I could not, however, take this view," Burnham wrote in a letter to James Dredge, editor of the influential British magazine Engineering.†   (source)
  • Amid all this was a workplace, too, four hundred acres of brushed steel and glass on the headquarters of the most influential'company in the world.†   (source)
  • While Disney was much more famous and achieved success sooner, Kroc may have been more influential.†   (source)
  • Downriver, a saltwater barrage had been built, in exchange for votes from the influential paddy-farmer lobby.†   (source)
  • Dee spied for the English Queen across Europe and was her most influential and powerful agent operating on the Continent.†   (source)
  • This was to gather under the very roof of Darlington Hall the most influential of the gentlemen whose support had been won with a view to conducting an 'unofficial' international conference - a conference that would discuss the means by which the harshest terms of the Versailles treaty could be revised.†   (source)
  • He was more influential than the minister of the interior.†   (source)
  • Apparently, Ambrose, firstborn son of the wealthy and influential Baron Jakis, had been busy as a bee in the social circles of Imre.†   (source)
  • Adams went to New York to learn how it had been done, then returned to Cleveland to meet with an influential civic organization called the Fortnightly Musical Club.†   (source)
  • He gave active encouragement to every religious and civic society in the city and had a special interest in the Patriotic Junta, composed of politically disinterested influential citizens who urged governments and local businesses to adopt progressive ideas that were too daring for the time.†   (source)
  • Another influential person in my life was an English teacher named Mrs. Miller.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the most influential was the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes.†   (source)
  • His family controlled one of Japan's large banks and was very influential in finance.†   (source)
  • He had problems with groups that on the surface would have seemed like allies, that often were allies in fact, with for example what he called "wl's"—white liberals, some of whose most influential spokespeople were black and prosperous.†   (source)
  • He could not for the life of him understand why so many influential financial reporters treated mediocre financial whelps like rock stars.†   (source)
  • Also, she believed it would not be wise to affiliate herself with any one group, no matter how rich or influential, when she had to deal with and speak for all the differing factions of the Varden.†   (source)
  • "I have a lot of influential friends in the United States," he told me.†   (source)
  • My father, and a few other influential chiefs, had the great respect for education that is often present in those who are uneducated.†   (source)
  • Once divorced, twice expelled from school, once fled from same, many times estranged from parents, thrice charged with petty larceny, once emergency-roomed for barbiturate overdose, once experimentally wrist-slashed, many times avomit on the pavement outside a bar—the shoplifting charges expunged from the record thanks to influential friends of dad.†   (source)
  • Even in countries where men monopolize political power, women have formed their own influential organizations and have enjoyed considerable success in bringing about change.†   (source)
  • It's a crying shame that there's always some influential husband, some spineless judge or firebrand member of Congress to set them free.†   (source)
  • Wintergreen is probably the most influential man in the whole theater of operations.†   (source)
  • Without influential friends, Snow Flower's parents had been reduced to the mercy of the elements.†   (source)
  • The Gentleman was in control of an entire city, and an influential city at that.†   (source)
  • Popsy just isn't as influential as he once was to attract good faculty.†   (source)
  • Inside Radch territories that accent declared her a member of a wealthy and influential house, someone who, after taking the aptitudes at fifteen, would have ended up with a prestigious assignment.†   (source)
  • You let the white folk worry about pride and dignity-you learn where you are and get yourself power, influence, contacts with powerful and influential people-then stay in the dark and use it!†   (source)
  • Society meant people who were rich or influential or, preferably, both.†   (source)
  • "I must entreat that you will keep what I say to yourself, but I foresaw, predicted, all that has happened," Lee wrote to Dr. Benjamin Rush, an influential member of Congress, who, Lee knew, would never keep it to himself.†   (source)
  • She had no social status, no influential background, no important friends.†   (source)
  • The Star's founder, Colonel Ayers, had believed it was a newspaper's responsibility to be an attorney for the least influential, the weakest, of its readership, and there were many, many people who passed through the doors of that place who read those words on the editorial page and took them to heart.†   (source)
  • However, these logistics take time even for the most influential people.†   (source)
  • Lisa is Tanner's sister, an influential woman and a member of our children's hospital board.†   (source)
  • Jared and Jeb and Doc were only three, though certainly the most influential three here.†   (source)
  • She grew so influential that it was said about Lannisport that any man who wished for his petition to be heard should kneel before her and speak loudly to her lap …. for Tytos Lannister's ear was between his lady's legs.†   (source)
  • Well after JFK's death, Hoover continued his practice of providing presidents with lurid classified files containing the personal indiscretions of high-ranking and influential individuals.†   (source)
  • Still, British scholars have long conceded that American English is the more influential version of our now global language.†   (source)
  • Others are addressed to influential state senators and representatives who did not attend the Institute.†   (source)
  • "The Rakshana's ranks are filled by some of the most important and influential men in the world—heads of state and captains of industry.†   (source)
  • Considered one of the most active and influential First Ladies in U.S. history, she advocated racial equality, women's rights, and world peace.†   (source)
  • "Lord Vyndra is very influential among his kind," replied Nigel.†   (source)
  • He does good work and influential people trust him.†   (source)
  • That night, thin, bespectacled William Lloyd Garrison wrote on the wall of his cell: "William Lloyd Garrison was put into this cell on Monday afternoon, October 21, 1835, to save him from the violence of a respectable and influential mob, who sought to destroy him for preaching the abominable and dangerous doctrine that all men are created equal, and that all oppression is odious in the sight of God."†   (source)
  • He applied and was accepted to prelaw at Wayne University; he took a part-time job clerking in Bacon's office; he graduated from Wayne and was accepted into law school at the University of Michigan, backed by Bacon's influential recommendation, he later found out from one of the deans.†   (source)
  • If a large, influential State were delinquent, some non-delinquent States would support its cause.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote an influential story about the evils of slavery.†   (source)
  • Easily the best known and most influential of the three accusers, Anytus, is widely believed to have been the driving force behind the prosecution of Socrates.†   (source)
  • A masterful showman, Hendrix was a brilliant experimentalist and one of the most influential musicians in history.†   (source)
  • He was too strong, too powerful, and too influential to play the part of a victim.†   (source)
  • Even the rulers of Syria, before the outbreak of the civil war, had sent their influential sick to the hills of Ein Kerem for care.†   (source)
  • I always went to him for advice before making a big decision, and he still has a very influential voice in how we operate today.†   (source)
  • Kitty Offenhaus was the most influential person in Fort Repose, with the exception of Edgar Quisenberry, who owned and ran the bank.†   (source)
  • Fanatic in its identification of Jews with international Communism, and vice versa, the movement was especially influential in the universities, where in the early 1920s physical violence against Jewish students became endemic.†   (source)
  • In years ahead when I wrote stories, atmosphere took its influential role from the start.†   (source)
  • It is my considered opinion that the hairdresser is the most influential man in any community.†   (source)
  • As a well-to-do and influential local man, Theotime had three or four families in different parts of the town.†   (source)
  • These had no influential friends.†   (source)
  • Mr. Sykes, having taken a cross section of the most influential opinion of the city, went back to his office with an easier mind, rang up his Minister, and that afternoon drafted an announcement to be broadcast on the radio that would constitute one of those swift changes of policy to meet the needs of the time, easy to make in a small, highly educated country and very characteristic of Australia.†   (source)
  • His own social circles in Boston—the rich, the cultivated and the influential—all turned against him.†   (source)
  • Despite these holocausts America is today the strongest, the most influential and most productive nation in the world.†   (source)
  • My mother comes from a family of strong women as well as influential men.   (source)
    influential = having great influence
  • Shiza wanted to introduce us to influential people.   (source)
    influential = having influence (affecting people or events)
  • In Pashtun society it is very hard to stomach a cousin being more popular, wealthier or more influential than you are.   (source)
  • Influential people in remote areas persuaded the government to build schools which never saw a single pupil.   (source)
  • One night, after the mufti had failed to persuade our landlady to cancel our lease, he gathered some of the influential people and elders of our mohalla into a delegation and turned up at our door.   (source)
  • Within a few hours of the attack, an influential local cleric called Faqir Mohammad, who had run the madrasa, announced that the deaths would be avenged by suicide bombings against Pakistani soldiers.   (source)
  • Usually politicians only visited during election time, promising roads, electricity, clean water and schools and giving money and generators to influential local people we called stakeholders, who would instruct their communities on how to vote.   (source)
    influential = having great influence
  • Before then mullahs had almost been figures of fun—my father said at wedding parties they would just hang around in a corner and leave early— but under Zia they became influential and were called to Islamabad for guidance on sermons.   (source)
    influential = having influence (affecting people or events)
  • U.S. presidents, philanthropists, luminaries, and other influential Americans.†   (source)
  • Based on these two successes, Pan's opinions on social issues had grown more and more influential.†   (source)
  • He's Bob Minis, one of the most brilliant and influential financiers in Savannah.†   (source)
  • My friends, I am far more influential in the civilized world than here in France.†   (source)
  • You're an influential person working at the Circle!†   (source)
  • The Frontiers of Science is full of famous scholars, and very influential.†   (source)
  • He's influential, powerful, beyond reach.†   (source)
  • A part, good press, a new script, an influential fan.†   (source)
  • I still have some influential friends in this country.†   (source)
  • They never heard of a banker or any influential taipan named Yao Ming.†   (source)
  • "Separation of Powers" Within Government: Number 49 Legislature Most Influential Branch 8.†   (source)
  • Although they shouldn't be richer and more influential than her.†   (source)
  • "They're technologically advanced and have the support of wealthy and influential people.†   (source)
  • They have relatives, friends, and acquaintances in the most influential part of society.†   (source)
  • Their parents are not influential, literate, or vocal, so this educational system is perpetuated.†   (source)
  • Everybody knew he was going to be a very influential man in the county.†   (source)
  • Ask yourself why the U.S. Christian Coalition is the most influential lobby against scientific progress in the world.†   (source)
  • And all those influential people who'd once been so keen to help us, well of course, they all vanished.†   (source)
  • … her exemplary conduct during the whole of her thirty years incarceration in the penitentiary the later portion of which she spent as a trusted inmate of the home of the Governor, and that so large a number of influential Gentlemen in Kingston should think that she merited and deserved a pardon, all tend to show that there is room for grave doubts as to her having been the awful female demon incarnate, that McDermott tried to make the public believe that she was.†   (source)
  • Despite the man's influential family dynasty and massive wealth, Langdon had found humility and warmth in Solomon's soft gray eyes.†   (source)
  • The Candor all know Marcus is the most influential government official, and some of them must have read the article Jeanine released about his cruelty toward his son.†   (source)
  • When an influential Wisconsin woman named Flora Ginty sent an elaborately carved wooden door, Hayden turned it down.†   (source)
  • The following year Iowa Beef Packers opened its first slaughterhouse — a meat factory that in its own way proved as influential as the first Speedee Service McDonald's in San Bernardino.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he had gained the idea from Professor Slughorn, the teacher with whom he was on best terms, who had demonstrated how influential a role a teacher can play.†   (source)
  • There was no way Harry was going to let an influential gentleman like yourself come through the village without giving you his usual earful.†   (source)
  • Influential Teachers.†   (source)
  • Here's an influential anthropologist, medical diplomat, public health administrator, epidemiologist, who has helped to bring new resolve and hope to some of the world's most dreadful problems, and he's just spent seven hours making house calls.†   (source)
  • Of all the women in Gion, Mameha and Mother were the two most influential in my life, and it was clear to me I was going to make one of them angry.†   (source)
  • The influential English poet who wrote Paradise Lost was a contemporary of Galileo's and a savant who conspiracy buffs put at the top of their list of Illuminati suspects.†   (source)
  • Some influential community leaders also thought it made Monroeville look backward and possibly racist in a way that was not good for the community's image or efforts at recruiting business, and business leaders started asking tough questions of Chapman and law enforcement about what was going on in the case.†   (source)
  • Nola pictured the Masonic video and its images of all the influential men participating in an ancient rite.†   (source)
  • To her watchers she was expressing her opinions constantly, yes, and felt far more influential than before, but something about the tidy rhythm and call-and-response nature of the surveys felt missing.†   (source)
  • Notably absent were bankers, partners of the city's most influential law firms, directors of big corporations, and people with inherited wealth.†   (source)
  • During the last three years alone, his lordship has been crucially instrumental in establishing links between Berlin and over sixty of the most influential citizens of this country.†   (source)
  • Clearly he was hosting a party while Sophie was away at school, and from the looks of the automobiles, some of Paris's most influential people were in attendance.†   (source)
  • Sol Bloom, back in California, took his quest for a concession for his Algerian Village to an influential San Franciscan, Mike De Young, publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle and one of the exposition's national commissioners.†   (source)
  • A gathering of the most decorated and accomplished Masons in the most powerful city on earth would logically include many influential and well-known individuals.†   (source)
  • He had not struck Mae as someone quick to fight, and yet he was standing, chest out and hands awake, as the circus performer assessed him, eyes steady, as if choosing between staying in character, in this circus, following through with the show and getting paid, and paid well, by this enormous and prosperous and influential company, or tangling with this guy in front of two hundred people.†   (source)
  • Silent Spring was published in America in 1962 and has been quite influential in the capitalist world.†   (source)
  • So, the reality of the situation was that both Jim Williams and the Adlers were prominent, influential, and rich.†   (source)
  • Langdon decided not to shock his students with the fact that more than a dozen secret societies around the world—many of them quite influential—still practiced sex rites and kept the ancient traditions alive.†   (source)
  • Three weeks ago, in a dark ritual witnessed by America's most influential men, Mal'akh had ascended to the thirty-third degree, the highest echelon of the world's oldest surviving brotherhood.†   (source)
  • Badness was the wife of an influential Savannah businessman, and she had lovers during most of their marriage.†   (source)
  • Peter's ancestral tree burgeoned with the names of wealthy business magnates, influential politicians, and a number of distinguished scientists, some even fellows of London's Royal Society.†   (source)
  • The only promising news was that Solomon's influential contacts at the U.S. State Department were working on getting him extradited as quickly as possible.†   (source)
  • More influential.†   (source)
  • Lincoln himself urged the legislature to convene during a visit to Richmond the previous week, saying that "the prominent and influential men of their respective counties should come together and undo their own work."†   (source)
  • It's things like how sociable they are, or how energetic or knowledgeable or influential among their peers.†   (source)
  • My father chose all the contestants by hand, picking young women with political alliances, influential families, or enough charm to make the entire country worship the ground they walked on.†   (source)
  • Exterior beauty might catch someone's eye right away—he knew he was just as susceptible as the next guy to a supermodel's appeal—but he'd always found intelligence and passion to be far more attractive and influential over time.†   (source)
  • A few days ago I might have disagreed with her, unsure how influential their belief in genetic damage was on their behavior.†   (source)
  • Present nearly every day, notwithstanding his years and infirmities, was Benjamin Franklin, who, at age seventy, was popularly perceived to be the oldest, wisest head in the Congress, which he was, and the most influential, which he was not.†   (source)
  • "Evert, you're asking us to run an operation against an influential magazine and the editor in chief of SMP.†   (source)
  • But more than that, he was the example of everything I hoped to be: Influential with wealthy men all over the country; consulted in matters concerning the race; a leader of his people; the possessor of not one, but two Cadillacs, a good salary and a soft, good-looking and creamy-complexioned wife.†   (source)
  • There was also a theoretical perspective at the time, based in part on (the influential child psychologist] Piaget, that a preschool child couldn't follow an extended narrative.†   (source)
  • Kruger was not only influential about prisons policy but he was critical to the government's handling of the liberation struggle.†   (source)
  • It was stunning scenery, and as Max whipped the old estate into shape, he could envision what must have been a prosperous farm and influential family.†   (source)
  • I was told that The Ten has a powerful lobby in the state legislature, that they are influential in contributing money to any political candidate deemed favorable to the Institute's interests, and that they watch individual members of the Corps carefully to make sure that no one graduates who is unworthy to wear the ring.†   (source)
  • Well, if American English is so vigorous and influential, and millions speak it, why ask, "Do you speak American?"†   (source)
  • King Hrothgar was highly regarded by most of his subjects, and Durgrimst Ingeitum remains one of the richest and most influential of clans, all of which is to Orik's benefit.†   (source)
  • In 2001 the World Bank produced an influential study, Engendering Development Through Gender Equality in Rights, Resources, and Voice, arguing that promoting gender equality is crucial to combat global poverty.†   (source)
  • In less than ten years he had distinguished himself as a scholar at King's (later Columbia) College, served as Washington's aide in the war, led an assault at Yorktown, and married into the wealthy, influential Schuyler family of New York, which did him no harm when, after the war, he turned his energies to the law and politics.†   (source)
  • Hans Eysenck, the influential British psychologist, has argued that serious smokers can be separated from nonsmokers along very simple personality lines.†   (source)
  • It was so weighty and influential a body that no step of any importance could ever be taken by the tribe without reference to it.†   (source)
  • Five men were slain in the back room of a cabaret, among them a banker —like myself, a taipan, my associate from time to time and no less influential — as well as three others whose identities were concealed; apparently it was a government decision.†   (source)
  • They controlled the influential mass media and possessed nearly limitless financial resources, as well as the support of the gringos, who had allocated secret funds for the program of sabotage.†   (source)
  • But the case got no sympathy from an equally influential black columnist, Carl T. Rowan, who said he found the ruling "far fetched."†   (source)
  • More and more, the most influential scholars of development and public health--including Sen and Summers, Joseph Stiglitz, Jeffrey Sachs, and Dr. Paul Farmer--are calling for much greater attention to women in development.†   (source)
  • The influential rap band Beastie Boys were very publicly putting money into the Free Tibet campaign, and were bringing monks on stage at their concerts to give testimonials.†   (source)
  • If the States had exclusive power to regulate national elections, a few men from influential States might destroy the Union.†   (source)
  • Several noted supporters, including Walter Cronkite and Linda Chavez, an influential Hispanic Republican, resigned in protest.†   (source)
  • The council leaders had been active, influential members of the legislative and executive branches during the period reviewed.†   (source)
  • Editor of the influential journal American Speech, Dr. Eble says that at Chapel Hill, as at universities across the country they can fill as many creative writing sections as they can offer.†   (source)
  • 'It is hard to resist the conclusion that California English is becoming one of the most influential dialects, not only in the United States but throughout the English-speaking world.†   (source)
  • As Hispanics become more influential culturally, economically, and politically, what will the consequences be for America's blacks, who still face their own challenges and discrimination over language?†   (source)
  • Disillusioned and discouraged when the opposition of influential segments of his own party accomplished his defeat, he had but one comment on the morning following election: "It is all right, twelve years of hard work, and a clean record; I am content."†   (source)
  • And they were these: During that spring afternoon's jaunt in the company of one of Poland's most influential anti-Semites, her admirer Walter Durrfeld, like his host, uttered not a word about Jews.†   (source)
  • They were not worried, they had connections, influential relatives were pulling strings for them at home, and at the worst they could buy themselves off later on.†   (source)
  • "The South has been beaten by the South—if united, she would have conquered!" cried an influential Dixie paper when Calhoun rebuked Houston and Benton for providing the win-ning margin for his opponents.†   (source)
  • James W. Grimes of Iowa, one of Johnson's bitter and influential foes in the Senate, became convinced that the trial was intended only to excite public passions through "lies sent from here by the most worthless and irresponsible creatures on the face of the earth" (an indication, perhaps, of the improved quality of Washington correspondents in the last eighty-seven years).†   (source)
  • It is not impossible that she might have been burned had her son-in-law been less influential in Spain and had she not somehow collected a few friends about the viceregal court who suffered her for her oddity and her wide reading.†   (source)
  • Like his "influential and financial friends," Lincoln belonged to the party of rank and privilege; it exacted a price from him.†   (source)
  • This gentleman is very influential.†   (source)
  • They say you're very influential.†   (source)
  • He had me strip my jacket so he could see my shoulders and my fanny, so that I was just about to tell him what he could do with his job when he said I was built right for his purpose, and my vanity was more influential than my self-respect.†   (source)
  • The most influential critic, who in the past had dismissed me with a few wounding commendations, peered out at me from between his slouch hat and woollen muffler, gripped my arm, and said: "I knew you had it.†   (source)
  • " "But a man like you--in public life--needs a wife who knows social business--who can entertain his influential business friends.†   (source)
  • Was he trying to determine whether I had influential enough political connections to make trouble for him?†   (source)
  • During the latter years of the reign of Gregory XVI, de Allande had been the most influential man at the Vatican; but since the death of Gregory, two years ago, he had retired to his country estate.†   (source)
  • On and between speaking trips, Tanimoto began submitting his peace-center memorandum to people he hoped might be influential.†   (source)
  • I studied the situation, then laid the matter before white friends of mine who held influential positions in the Works Progress Administration.†   (source)
  • Though he was ten years younger than Father Latour, Eusabio was one of the most influential men among the Navajo people, and one of the richest in sheep and horses.†   (source)
  • Do you think you can kneel down in front of a statue and say a few words, not even out loud, just in your mind, and change the weather; or that some saints are more influential than others, and you must get hold of the right one to help you on the right problem?†   (source)
  • He had …. influential and financial friends to help him; they almost fought each other for the privilege of assisting Lincoln ….†   (source)
  • "All right," I said, "I'm influential.†   (source)
  • The police had questioned him several times, and just a few days before, he had heard that an influential acquaintance, a Mr Tanaka a retired officer of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha steamship line, an anti-Christian, a man famous in Hiroshima for his showy philanthropies and notorious for his personal tyrannies, had been telling people that Tanimoto should not be trusted.†   (source)
  • To be influential, Mr. Burden!†   (source)
  • Jack is very influential.†   (source)
  • True, Russians think more of influential friends than of birth, but she had both.†   (source)
  • You're an influential citizen, why don't you write to the papers and protest?'†   (source)
  • I know he was to see some of the influential people today.†   (source)
  • My dear aunt's influential acquaintances were producing an unexpected effect upon that young man.†   (source)
  • He was a thoroughly sensible man, influential and intelligent.†   (source)
  • Sir Percy had influential friends everywhere.†   (source)
  • To think that he should be a full cousin to this wealthy and influential family!†   (source)
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