Sentence examples for director influential from inspiring English sources

His life after his final retirement from the foreign service gravitated towards the auctioneers Sotheby's, of which he became a director, influential in developing European markets.

The Board of Directors of The American Theatre Wing mourns the passing of our longtime board member, a ground-breaking, award-winning director, influential educator, and powerful champion of new voices in theatre.

This, according to Forbes, means that 47percentt of the U.S. population believes the "Lincoln" director is influential, adding: "A celebrity's 'Influential' score represents how that person is perceived as influencing the public, their peers, or both".

So said Jacques Lecoq, the late French mime, theater director and influential teacher.

At the time, Neil Saunders, managing director of influential UK retail research agency Conlumino, questioned the wisdom of a purge before the Australian company had had time to experience first-hand the UK's £38bn home improvements market.

These activities, all run within the department, unfold under the watchful eye of the department's own postdoc director, an influential senior faculty member who has even more innovative ideas up his sleeve.

C1 Challenging a Board of Directors An influential adviser to institutional investors is urging its clients to oppose the re-election of the directors of Texas Instruments, including Thomas J. Engibous, the company's chairman and chief executive.

That is the question before a federal court in Dallas in a lawsuit pitting one of the nation's largest health insurance providers, United Healthcare against Texas officials who have proposed disciplining one of the company's medical directors, the influential behind-the-scenes officials who decide whether to pay for patient treatments.

In Europe, fans of the Italian "giallo" genre have seen directors as influential as Mario Bava and Lucio Fulci variously draw upon the writings of the so-called godfather of modern horror, while a collaboration between Dario Argento and George Romero spawned one of the most neglected Poe spin-offs in the shape of 1990's eerie (and frequently gory) Two Evil Eyes.

The phrases you keep hearing from wine directors at influential new places like Otto in New York City, A.O.C. in Los Angeles and Fortunato in Chicago are things like "passionate small producers," "overlooked growing regions" and try to take this in good spirits–"guest education".

"He is the single most influential director of his generation," Peter Bogdanovich said, during an event at MOMA, in 2012, honoring the director, by which time it was customary to add the phrase "for better or worse".