Sentence examples for chief influence from inspiring English sources
Mr. Tillinghast considers Peter Lynch, former manager of Fidelity Magellan, as his chief influence.
His chief influence was Gian Lorenzo Bernini, who befriended him and introduced him to his circle of Roman patrons.
The Sukhothai image remained the most popular in Thailand and was a chief influence on the later U Thong style.
For the most part, though, the book's chief influence is not a sociologist but a novelist: Penelope Fitzgerald.
Because of her ability to inhabit the emotional dimensions of a song, she was often likened to Billie Holiday, her chief influence.
It was also a chief influence in the life of Philipp Jakob Spener, who was a founder of Pietism, a movement that stressed simple Christian living.
His chief influences include the Italian architect Renzo Piano, said a close relative.
Its chief influences are Joyce's Ulysses and Thornton Wilder's Our Town.
It seems probable that the chief influences on this culture came from southern China.
The Flying Burrito Brothers, American popular musical group of the late 1960s and '70s that was one of the chief influences on the development of country rock.
The two chief influences on his learning were William Small, a Scottish-born teacher of mathematics and science, and George Wythe, the leading legal scholar in Virginia.
