Sentence examples for in an influential position from inspiring English sources

Everyone expects from him a reign of irresponsible license, with Falstaff in an influential position.

A Japanese watch denotes someone in an influential position; a foreign luxury watch indicates a very senior position.

British Red Cross posts on its website that London headquarters are best to be in an "influential position".

They may also elicit reader empathy by discussing real-world problems, even in fictional contexts, while situating literature and the arts in an influential position.

This resulted in an impressive slowdown that lasted nearly a decade, winning kudos from the international community and putting Brazil in an influential position in global climate talks.

While candidates for the governing Liberal Constitutionalist Party were expected to win a majority of local posts, the Sandinista victory in the capital places the former revolutionary rulers in an influential position for the presidential race next year.

"I'm truly astonished," he storms, "that someone in such an influential position as you, in charge of a great body of men and women, agrees that it was a dereliction of duty…" "It is not a dereliction of duty by the firefighters," Lehair says again.

Rev Steve Wood St Margaret's Streatley, Bedfordshire It is disturbing that someone in such an influential position (ex-chair of the National Trust and trustee of the Churches Conservation Trust) should offer such simplistic views on the predicament of our churches.

Viewed from Belfast, the question may be: Who will the DUP deign to support in the event that they hold an influential position in a hung parliament?

Personally, while it would be edifying, I'm pretty sure that it would be unfair of me, as a Christian who believes in strict gun control, to occupy an influential position in the office that handed out gun licenses and then simply refuse to hand out any licenses stating my sincere religious beliefs.

After a spell as chief production officer in the Central Office of Information's film division, in 1948 he was appointed director of the British Film Institute, an influential position in the heady postwar years when the UK film industry was booming but had not lost its wartime ties with governmental aims.