All 9 Uses
influential
in
I Am Malala
(Edited)
- I dream that one day I will be an influential politician in Pakistan.
p. xv.8 *influential = having influence (affecting people or events)
- My mother comes from a family of strong women as well as influential men.
p. 22.4influential = 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.
p. 30.9influential = 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.
p. 35.6
- 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.
p. 63.9influential = having great influence
- Influential people in remote areas persuaded the government to build schools which never saw a single pupil.
p. 84.5influential = having influence (affecting people or events)
- 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.
p. 93.9
- 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.
p. 100.9
- Shiza wanted to introduce us to influential people.
p. 195.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(influential) having influence (the ability to affect people or events) -- especially due to respect or admiration
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)