Sentence examples for formidable influence on the from inspiring English sources

Trade experts say the big pharmaceutical companies have formidable influence on the issue of drug exports.

That the legislation was passed by the House on a voice vote and was opposed by only one senator -- Ernest F. Hollings, a South Carolina Democrat who is a longtime job protectionist -- underscored the technology industry's formidable influence on Capitol Hill.

That was the year that Alison Knowles, one of the founders of the Fluxus movement — which was really less a movement than a loose affiliation of artists in the '60s who had a formidable influence on generations of artists that followed — started eating lunch regularly, and unvaryingly, at Riss diner on Eighth Avenue near 23rd Street in Chelsea.

And I am sure that the show could not have helped but have a formidable influence on a lot of present television writing.

Through Jan . 14As painting lost prestige in the '60s, a cult of Orpheus emerged to become a formidable influence on visual art.

Grass-roots pressure from such groups is a formidable influence on Congress.

But Mr. Mehta is a take-charge type who will surely exert his formidable influence on overall policies and programming.

She gained formidable influence during the Republican-dominated 1980s.

Such formidable influence deserves and cries out for the strictest scrutiny.

You may be a formidable live band and an acknowledged influence on the likes of U2, REM, Franz Ferdinand and Bloc Party, but you still tend to get described as if you were the musical education wing of a Marxist thinktank.

Does "formidable" now mean that you can keep convincing people that you have some humanity, and some influence on the president, when there's no evidence of either?