Sentence examples for given an influential from inspiring English sources

Palin continued: In this life, you're blessed to have been given an influential platform.

The concepts of opinion, attitude, and value used in public opinion research were given an influential metaphorical characterization by the American-born political analyst Robert Worcester, who founded the London-based polling firm MORI (Market & Opinion Research International Ltd .. Values, he suggested, are "the deep tides of public mood, slow to change, but powerful".

In 1945, the British philosopher Gilbert Ryle gave an influential lecture about two kinds of knowledge.

As the head of Breitbart News, he gave an influential platform to elements of the alt-right but vehemently denied that the site was racist.

In February, 2003, former Secretary of State Colin Powell gave an influential speech in which he made the case for going to war against Iraq and prominently cited this evidence.

That director was Newton Minow, Nell's father, a distinguished Chicago lawyer, who served as the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission during the Kennedy Administration, and, in 1961, gave an influential speech, still quoted today, in which he described much of television programming as "a vast wasteland".

The fortune that Thiel has since accumulated has given him an influential role in Republican Party politics.

He himself gave an extremely influential series of lectures in Britain in 1955 (History and Eschatology: The Presence of Eternity) and in the United States in 1958 (Jesus Christ and Mythology), and his demythologizing program became the subject of a multivolume series with the title Kerygma und Mythos (Kerygma and Myth).

As it turned out, that gave Shaw an influential role last year.

Like Mr. Sexwale, Mr. Ramaphosa gave up an influential position in the circle of political power brokers to stake his place in business.

Although Intimism did not attract a wealth of followers as a movement, its achievements were considerable enough to give it an influential place in the art of the period.