Sentence examples for all too influential from inspiring English sources

"Interior lines of communication," "another block away," "everybody needs a shoulder," "he would do the same for me" — real knowledge of war, street smarts, human sympathy, and humility: four qualities that "the lone cowboy," if he ever had them, fatally lacked in his all too influential Vice-Presidency, and now again in his memoir.

But the apparent absoluteness of that prohibition had long been subverted by the ill-conceived, yet all too influential, statement by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in Schenck v. United States (1919): The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

I had been delighted by Sokal's clever coup in constructing an absurd argument out of bits and pieces of the discourse fashionable among savants currently all too influential in the humanities and social sciences and seeing it published in 1996 as a serious contribution by Social Text.

Over the weekend, the two Premiership semi-finals yielded the grand total of two touchdowns – the kind of return that disturbs the sleep of certain all-too-influential International Board executives.

Kuhn's idea was influential (a little too influential: somebody remarked that it was "about how science works like art").

If Eton is too influential, he suggests, other schools should try harder.

He had been in some ways too influential for his own good.

This was a measure introduced in 1979 to prevent the Scottish Nationalists becoming too influential.

It's impossible to disavow Heidegger's thinking: it is too useful, and too influential, to be marginalized.

"We try not to lend to anyone too influential," says a western banker involved in the scheme.

Traditional French presidential wives were expected to be discreet "premières dames" avoiding being too aloof or too influential politically.