Sentence examples for civic influence from inspiring English sources

Barry's civic influence is revealed by his departure, rather as George Bailey's is in "It's a Wonderful Life".

Millar's (and Mill's) "ranks" are not (quite) "classes" in our modern sense that is, purely descriptive, fairly distinct, and normatively neutral socio-economic entities but are instead meant to pick out people of particular intellectual merit and to mark gradations of moral and civic influence.

Often referred to as Generation Z and described as digital natives, screenagers and wired from the crib; they are growing up in a world where social media, crowdsourcing, open platform-education and sharing, are giving them a chance for unprecedented engagement and civic influence; as creators, innovators, citizens and agents of change in a changing world.

Shall we focus, in the life of the woman who says she is known as the "floating pool lady," on the aqueous or the civic influences?

The company had been a civic dynamo whose influence and money were felt in almost every corner of the city.

They may not be the investments they once were, but people still buy them for some combination of civic virtue and influence.

It was named for Andrew H. Green, an undeservedly forgotten 19th-century civic visionary whose influence has been compared to that of Robert Moses.

But even as cities contemplate how to reverse population declines, demographers expressed caution about whether civic leaders could influence immigration patterns.

They were once major symbols of civic pride and influence, often situated in the heart of the city, and nearly equal in stature to nearby city halls, courthouses and other major public buildings.

PAGE A6 A Calmer Howard Beach New York City's lower crime rate and changed cast of civic characters may influence how the response to this week's racial attack in Howard Beach, Queens, plays out compared with the one in 1986.

Rather, it's that the meritocrats don't participate in working class culture, and that "assortative mating" and geographic clustering have deprived lower-income communities of the social capital (and with it, strong civic institutions, political influence, and so on) that the smart and diligent possess.