Sentence examples for a decisive influence in from inspiring English sources

His findings were a decisive influence in establishing the direction taken by the Neogrammarian school of historical linguists (see Neogrammarians).

The British vote can thus have a decisive influence in areas where a large share of the electorate is made up by British expats.

The truth is there was never any such reciprocity of interests, and the various constitutional settlements that led to independence had a decisive influence in preserving much of the social legacy of the colonial period.

It provided further evidence for the important claim of 19th-century linguists that phonetic laws have no exceptions and proved to be a decisive influence in establishing the direction taken by the Neogrammarian school of historical linguistics.

Johnson released the information in the company of Transport for London's commissioner, Peter Hendy, his deputy for policing, Kit Malthouse, and senior police officers at a press conference in Bexleyheath police station, thereby honouring, he said, another pledge, this being to take a close interest in London's suburbs, where voters had a decisive influence in his securing power.

The idea spread swiftly across Europe, and a decisive influence in that transmission was Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife first to Louis VII of France and then to Henry II of England, who inspired some of the best poetry of Bernard de Ventadour, among the last (12th century) and finest of troubadour poets.

And that's why I'm saying that for first time in many years people in Scotland can vote with the reasonable expectation that we might actually have a decisive influence on legislation in the next Parliament, and that is all to the good".

The art historian also highlighted the frescoes Signorelli painted in the Capella Nova in Orvieto's Duomo as a decisive influence, "as anyone can see," in Vasari's words, on Michelangelo's "Last Judgment" in the Sistine Chapel.

The level of communication in meetings with the staff can have a decisive influence on parents' experiences in the NICU.

The 59 Scottish MPs rarely exert a decisive influence on English legislation in a parliament of 650 and the SNP has, in the past, withdrawn voluntarily from exclusively English votes.

Here Özil was positioned mainly on the left, from where he was a controlled, decisive influence in those opening minutes.