Sentence examples for a more direct influence from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Close feels that a more direct influence was his grandmother's needlework.

A more direct influence on "Sweet Little Sixteen" may have been a 1953 song called "Route 90," by the Cajun rhythm and blues singer Clarence "Bon Ton" Garlow.

His family life also had a more direct influence on his portrayal of Henry Barthes, which he describes as "an homage to my father and the contribution he's made, which is very generous and underappreciated by society".

A philosopher could not hope for a more direct influence on the fate of mankind than by writing such a book; or, practically speaking, for a better advertisement for a royal job.

The firm's main current purpose is to help create transparency but in the future they plan to have a more direct influence on increasing recycling by making direct transfers of funds to recyclers, says co-founder Luciana Oliveira.

But this show suggests a more direct influence: that Mr. Judd's penchant for planting found objects -- a bread pan, a copper disc, the letter O from a plastic sign -- at the center of his reliefs in the early 1960s received a crucial nudge from Mr. Ortman.

But Mr Dotcom, who is not a New Zealand citizen and cannot become an MP, has a much more direct influence than that.

Therefore in this country, public statements by academic economists on economic policy issues potentially have a markedly more direct influence than in systems where the population elects a broad policy platform once every 4 years.

But Labour argues that the restructuring will cost £3bn and, by removing a middle tier of management, give Whitehall more direct influence over community healthcare.

In the past, the Holy See wanted the city run under an international mandate so the church could exert more direct influence over its sacred sites.

But it emerged last night that Mr McCluskey has been pressing for more direct influence within individual constituencies for more than a year.