Sentence examples for exercised an influence from inspiring English sources
Beautiful and intelligent, she exercised an influence over her husband that was decisive in establishing and maintaining Sir Robert Walpole as prime minister (1730 42).
General Smuts, the Prime Minister of South Africa remarked: "Mr Lloyd George once said to me that the Manchester Guardian exercised an influence entirely out of proportion to its circulation.
This culminated in the theosophy of the Zohar (1560; "The Book of Splendor"), which is ascribed to Moses de León and which exercised an influence comparable only to that of the Bible and the Talmud.
In 1949, when the People's Republic of China was formed, Christians represented only 1 percent of the Chinese population, but they exercised an influence out of all proportion to their size.
VI SAKAI (aBLANDASa) 249 demons and diseases, and the few plants that he employs are applied outwardly either in pressed form or in that of an infusion.1 The Sakai magicians in ancient times exercised an influence far exceeding even the prerogative of a chief.
Italy and Spain, too, exercised an influence, though, with the exception of Dante, it was not their literature that attracted so much as the models for violent emotion and exotic fantasy that these countries offered: French writing suffered a proliferation of gypsies, bandits, poisonings, and revenge tales.
These set a fashion in church building and decoration that was to exercise an influence for many centuries.
It allows Jews to exercise an influence out of all proportion to their mere 2% of the population.
Adrian Leverkuhn, the novel's composer hero, has reached outside fiction to exercise an influence on music of the later 20th century.
To "promote the public welfare by exercising an influence on behalf of humanity and civilization". Over the past century, we have endeavored to live up that challenge.
Other commentators, however, while sympathetic to Celyn's family, are less than enchanted with the sight of the mummy-warriors marching forth yet again, exercising an influence they believe is disproportionate to their numbers.
