Sentence examples for influential action from inspiring English sources

Bullitt's famous San Francisco car chase (later revived by Ford as part of an advertising campaign) became one of cinema's most influential action sequences.

Progress in combating HIV/Aids, advancing tobacco control and reducing women's deaths in pregnancy and childbirth, for example, would not have been possible without influential action.

The third title in the influential action adventure series, originally developed for the Sega Dreamcast console, finished its Kickstarter campaign at the weekend, attracting just over $6.3m from almost 70,000 backers.

Mr Greengrass is currently the world's most influential action director, having established a trademark combination of darting camerawork, split-second editing and documentary-like naturalism on "The Bourne Supremacy", a spy film starring Matt Damon, and "United 93", a nerve-jangling dramatisation of a 9/11 hijacking.

This columnist also is senior advisor, economics, of American Principles in Action, demonstrably the most influential "action tank" for monetary reform — including the gold standard — at work in Washington today.

To focus more specifically on Mr. Awlaki, you might use our lesson on tracking the so-called "Times Square bomber," Faisal Shahzad, as a guide to how students can find out about the background, connections and influential actions of Mr. Awlaki, as well as how American intelligence and forces tracked him down.

Reducing (political) risk and helping them be prepared are therefore influential actions.

His political activism continued with the founding of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) in 1987, an influential direct action protest organization with the aim of gaining more public action to fight the AIDS crisis.

Ms. Gillibrand also drew from Mrs. Clinton's financial supporters and from Emily's List, an influential political action committee that backs Democratic women who support abortion rights.

On Friday afternoon, a top official at Emily's List, an influential political action committee that backs Democratic women, sent a fund-raising pitch on Ms. Quinn's behalf to the group's members, declaring that "New Yorkers deserve better than the circus their mayoral race has turned into".

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, people connected to BAE donated $1.1 million to congressional campaigns and influential political action committees in 2009 and 2010 for the 2010 election.