He noted that his own skin color had surely influenced his career, beginning with his first job, as a writer on "30 Rock".
And yet the film itself, with a body count in the hundreds, and its prolonged shoot-outs (sequences that have surely influenced all the action film excesses that followed: the Schwarzenegger films, the Seagal films, the Van Damme films), its absolutely demeaning treatment of women, is not exactly what one would consider honourable at all.
Accommodating those different interests within the opaque upper echelons of the party will mean a dilution of his power that does not bode well for the possibility of ambitious reforms.In this section Treading water Old brooms Heard in the hutong Blunt words and keen swords ReprintsMr Xi and Mr Hu have surely influenced the make-up of the new Politburo and its standing committee.
Languages such as C++ have lived through many generations of computers, and although they've surely been influenced by changes in technology, most modifications of them have been attempts to meet the needs of people, not computers.
Recently, I wrote about the rerelease of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1974 movie Fear Eats the Soul, about a middle-aged German woman falling in love with a Moroccan migrant worker, noticing for the first time how Kaurismäki had surely been influenced by the cool, comic tableaux that Fassbinder created for his rackety barroom scenes.
In the medium term, however, Dein's influence has surely been diluted.
Such insecurity has surely fueled Rodriguez's drive to achieve, while also influencing his many bizarre decisions.
The government has limited influence on the economy, and the president can have limited influence on government policy, as anyone watching the current debate in Washington has surely noticed.
