Sentence examples for a malign influence over from inspiring English sources

Fagin, the pocket-picking villain from "Oliver!", exerts a malign influence over François Hollande's fiscal policy: "When I see someone rich/ Both my thumbs start to itch".

So runs the narrative of not "reds under the bed" but of "reds in the bed" (of Labour): the unions are run by barons who are hell-bent on making trouble for decent, ordinary citizens; they want to disrupt wealth creation; they are undemocratic and out of touch with their members; and through Labour they have a malign influence over national politics.

He was a malign influence, stopping people from coming forward.

Over time, her grandmother cut her off from anyone who might be a malign influence, which by her reckoning appeared to be nearly everyone.

The British public, too, had concluded that the Murdochs were a malign influence.

Mr. Transfer, sportswriters called him, and fingered Clarkson as a malign influence.

The film portrays Fowley as a malign influence who deliberately marketed them as "jailbait rock".

"The captain was a malign influence on Amir and indeed on Asif.

Many people (her husband included) saw this illiterate peasant woman as a malign influence.

He was described on Wednesday as a "malign influence" on his team-mates Amir and Mohammad Asif.

Sports Direct and Mike Ashley have been a malign influence on Rangers since they first became involved.