Sentence examples for held influential from inspiring English sources

While living in Boston, Ms. Fanning also held influential positions at several news organizations.

He also held influential positions, editing Poetry Australia in the 1970s and reading submissions for Angus & Robertson until 1991.

Professors Sir Nigel Rodley, Paul Hunt and Kevin Boyle, of the Human Rights Centre, have all held influential positions at the UN.

The incumbent, Silvestre Reyes, has been in office for more than 15 years, and has held influential positions in the House, most recently as the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.

New York's representatives in the House have been ineffective in getting aid for New York City for several reasons: Many Congressmen who held influential positions in congress have left for other political posts.

Mr Bartlett held influential economic positions during the country's last great spasm of reform in the 1980s, but he is now held an apostate by many Republicans, for whom the only acceptable tax changes are cuts.

Many of Waterstone's early employees now hold influential positions within the publishing industry.

They also say that they are barred from holding influential posts in the security forces.

Yet here we are, living in an age where more and more women hold influential roles as cultural gatekeepers.

Many of these same people hold influential positions at other clearinghouses, or on committees at the powerful International Swaps and Derivatives Association, which helps govern the market.

He has advised generations of public officials on planning matters and trained a cadre of other planners, some of whom have held or now hold influential government positions.