Sentence examples for had a formative influence from inspiring English sources

(Havana had a formative influence on the music, along with New Orleans, Chicago and New York).

His musical tastes had a formative influence on my children because, in retirement, he took on the task of driving them to school each morning.

Lane, who will be consecrated in a ceremony at York Minster on Monday, reveals that being squeezed between two siblings had a formative influence that made her strive that much harder.

The New York producer's 1990s bass-heavy house tracks, such as his Dark Garage remix of Sneaker Pimps' Spin Spin Sugar, had a formative influence on UK garage, the scene that would spawn grime.

Many of the Jewish soldiers who took part were, unlike the native-born Sharon, Holocaust survivors who had only just disembarked from Europe.The defeat at Latrun had a formative influence on Mr Sharon.

Zeno's arguments also had a formative influence on Aristotle's own theory of the continuum and of continuous motion.

Doo wop would go on to have a formative influence on the development of rock and roll, and The Orioles can be considered the earliest rock and roll band as a result.

Lehzen had been a formative influence on Victoria, and had supported her against the Kensington System.

In a column last week I shared my disappointment in discovering that one of the people whose thought and books has been a formative influence on my life had been associated with anti-Israel remarks.

Their crowdfunding venture is characteristic: in the 1980s Flicks had one of the very first searchable computer databases, strongly rumoured to have been a formative influence on adopted Bristolian Col Needham, who went on to found IMDb.

For Kim Jones, the most exciting menswear designer to have emerged from London in the past few years, the colour of sportswear has been a formative influence.