Sentence examples for exercising an influence from inspiring English sources
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.
The intention is to provide against any possible selfish interest exercising an influence which can interfere with the faithful discharge of the duty which is owing in a fiduciary capacity.
And carnivores? "Because large carnivores regulate other predators and prey, exercising an influence on the ecosystem far out of proportion to their numbers, their protection and reintroduction is crucial".
In fact, Senator Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane Lathrop Stanford, founded the University "to promote the public welfare by exercising an influence on behalf of humanity and civilization". Studying the theory and practice of education is a way to do exactly that.
[T]o promote the public welfare by exercising an influence on behalf of humanity and civilization, teaching the blessings of liberty regulated by law, and inculcating love and reverence for the great principles of government as derived from the inalienable rights of man to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
These set a fashion in church building and decoration that was to exercise an influence for many centuries.
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.
Adrian Leverkuhn, the novel's composer hero, has reached outside fiction to exercise an influence on music of the later 20th century.
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).
