Sentence examples for an influential pillar from inspiring English sources

Mr. McColl, still an influential pillar at the bank, has said in recent days that he supports Mr. Lewis.

Part of the gallery show is dedicated to influential pillars of Iranian art, like Reza Derakshani of Tehran, a painter whose work is inspired by Persian epics and landscapes, and Charles Hossein Zenderoudi and Parviz Tanavoli, originators in the early 1960s of the calligraphically inspired Saqqa-Khaneh school, Iran's first contemporary-art movement.

Moving to New York in the mid-1980'shesoughtught out Henry Threadgill and Leroy Jenkins, expatriate pillars of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, an influential collective that promotes experimentalism in jazz.

Stahl was an influential teacher.

Penn also became an influential portraitist.

There is not even an influential university.

Foucault was indeed an influential thinker.

Rabemananjara was also an influential politician.

Porphyry was an influential thinker.

"Moorsey is an influential character.

Levitt is an influential academic economist.