Sentence examples for illusion of influence from inspiring English sources

And newspapers give critics the illusion of influence.

And that's where we see Murdoch's real genius: he has managed to use his illusion of influence to get all of these benefits without having to commit himself to anything, or expose himself in any way.

Of course, any illusions of influence were dispelled a few months later, in February, 1513, by jail and the strappado.

The through lines were Bach's Inventions — in sets of three at a time — and works by Bartok, and Mr. Schiff gave the illusion of an influence in both directions.

We demonstrate that the currently existing metrics of friends' influence are biased by the presence of highly popular items in the data, and as a result can lead to an illusion of friends influence where there is none.

President Janet Yellen has been the champion of that noble cause, but spread the illusion of the direct influence of monetary policy on the real economy.

Recent studies have shown that goalies can use optional illusions to influence the accuracy of penalty shots.

The sound-induced flash illusion (SIFI) is a demonstration of influence of sound on visual perception, wherein a single flash in the periphery, accompanied by multiple auditory beeps, induces a percept of multiple flashes (Shams et al. 2000, 2002).