"This is more of a piece than not," was the reaction of Joan Biskupic, whose insightful book, "Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice," appeared shortly after the justice's retirement in 2005.
In an Op-Ed piece, which several I.O.C. members have called influential, that appeared last March in The New York Times, Zhang wrote that a Beijing Olympics "will do nothing to damage human rights and will do something to improve them".
Two influential collections appeared around the turn of the 20th century: the Yattendon Hymnal (1899), by the English poet Robert Bridges, and The English Hymnal (1906), edited by Percy Dearmer and the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams; the latter includes many plainsong and folk melodies.
In 2001, another influential article appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, which further precipitated the decline in VBAC.
Some influential Americans appear to be convinced that the US will attack Iran.
So perhaps it's appropriate that some of the liveliest examples (and some of the most influential) should appear, like Frankenstein's monster, as an unruly amalgam of dead elements.
While it is true that various elements of Vedic ritual survive in modern practice and thereby serve a unifying function, much more influential commonalities appear in the worship of icons or images (pratima, murti, or archa).
When the White House signals its support of the taskforce and an influential senator appears to back the bill, Meyer is giddy with achievement, even when the senator demands a difficult quid pro quo on the taskforce membership, which Meyer agrees.
These dynamic and influential molecules appear to play an important function in both brain development and its adaption to stress.
This very warning against reification, though, is explicated into an influential cosmogony appearing at the start of the second chapter of the Huainanzi, which takes each phrase as labeling an identifiable point in a progression of concrete stages.
