Sentence examples for chief influences from inspiring English sources

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.

Mr. Khalil, who cites Woody Allen and Mel Brooks as two of his chief influences, concedes that satire is not a very powerful weapon in a country where politics is still largely a matter of feudal allegiance.

Mr. Tillinghast considers Peter Lynch, former manager of Fidelity Magellan, as his chief influence.

Among those who credit him as their chief influence is Christopher Wheeldon, who was his student in the Royal Ballet Choreographic Group.

For the most part, though, the book's chief influence is not a sociologist but a novelist: Penelope Fitzgerald.

The Sukhothai image remained the most popular in Thailand and was a chief influence on the later U Thong style.

His chief influence was Gian Lorenzo Bernini, who befriended him and introduced him to his circle of Roman patrons.