Sentence examples for helpful influence from inspiring English sources

(Mahan had a not entirely helpful influence on both Churchill and Roosevelt in their conduct of the Second World War).

It is true that hedge funds' willingness to take on risk means that they have been a helpful influence on some bankruptcy proceedings and emergency refinancings.

(A mock interview between Bollinger and Ahmadinejad, in the New York Post, had the Iranian saluting Khalidi and praising Columbia for the helpful influence of professors like Said and Abu El-Haj on his own thinking).

In addition, they should aim to exert a helpful influence on student life by taking an interest in extracurricular activities as well as by counseling individual students regarding their studies.

But it's still likely that advisers who built long-term relationships with their clients, and who pledged to look after their welfare, would have been a helpful influence, suggesting caution to those who were getting over their heads in debt, and warning that adjustable-rate mortgages could be reset upward, just as the fine print said.

It seems to me not good enough to put it all down to image management, a few spending decisions or his snug relationships with Bengali media (genuine question: how does their helpful influence compare with the negative onslaughts by national television and newspapers?).

He fell in love with Paris and the "helpful influences" that surrounded him there (5 ).

What you probably have not heard is that families can be tremendously helpful, can influence change in their loved one, and can influence positive change in themselves.

Then, he suggested, you might go around to various companies and offer inconsequential bits of funding – $100,000 here and there – while pointing out how helpful your "influence" in the press could be.

Moreover, people's assumptions about which feedback is most helpful was influenced by their functions, and not always in the way we might have expected.

The development of patient-friendly lab test reports will require an understanding not only of what types of information patients desire to learn and need to understand to interpret the test result, but also what information will be most helpful in influencing the appropriate utilization of results [ 6] and how best to present that information to optimize patient comprehension.