Sentence examples for figure of influence from inspiring English sources

Zivkovic is a figure of influence: he discovers, publishes, promotes new writers, and champions them at his popular conference, Science Online.

He spent time as a correspondent in South Africa, where Gandhi started out as a callow 23-year-old "briefless lawyer," and India, where Gandhi arrived at age 44 as a political figure of influence and consequence and where he was dubbed a mahatma ("great soul") by the poet Rabindranath Tagore.

And senior Pentagon officials, including Mr. Cohen, are trying to find figures of influence who can capture the attention of young people of enlistment age.

Meanwhile the White House is recruiting figures of influence from every corner, including from past Republican administrations, to help to make the case.

Two figures of influence -- one popular, the other academic -- were Ayn Rand and Friedrich Hayek.

It would be unwise to count on the imminent emergence of another figure of such influence.

By the mid-1990s Berezovsky was a figure of huge influence in the Yeltsin court – a fact many resented.

By the mid-1990s the mercurial Berezovsky was a figure of enormous influence inside the Yeltsin court – a fact that led many to hate him.

The members of Fly, now all in their 40s, have also become figures of considerable influence, and even some awe, among younger musicians.

Subject: Madame de Pompadour (1721-64), born Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, was a figure of huge cultural influence in 18th-century France.

He was a figure of such grand influence that we cannot always be sure that we are actually assessing him accurately.