Sentence examples for influential brief from inspiring English sources

There is another possibility: one or more of the cases could fizzle, said Walter E. Dellinger, who served as acting solicitor general in the Clinton administration and filed an influential brief in the Proposition 8 case, Hollingsworth v. Perry, No. 12-144.

Well, directors are fearful that the bank may be humiliated by shareholders when it comes to the annual vote on remuneration, that there may be a large protest vote - even though they briefed influential investors on their pay plans before announcing them, and thought they had their acquiescence.

And then there's Francesca Woodman; a touring survey of her brief but influential career opens at the Guggenheim Museum next week.

WH Auden, a self-confessed addict of detective fiction, argued in a brief but influential essay, "The Guilty Vicarage", that the charm of the genre has nothing to do with literature: it is essentially magical, and its effect is cathartic.

Georges Boulanger, (born April 29 , 1837 Rennes, Fr. died Sept. 30, 1891, Brussels) French general, minister of war, and political figure who led a brief but influential authoritarian movement that threatened to topple the Third Republic in the 1880s.

The brief but influential riot grrrl movement seemed to arrive at just the right moment, during debates about workplace harassment and young women's sexuality, fresh issues that still resonate today.

Waid's brief but influential run paved the way for the virtual reinvention of the character in 2005, when Ed Brubaker began his critically acclaimed stint as the writer of Captain America.

"Funk Power 1970: A Brand New Thang" (Polydor, 1996) took yet another look at the brief but influential Collins brothers lineup and the seminal documents of modern funk ("Sex Machine," "Super Bad," and more).

April 29 , 1837Rennes, France September 30, 1891 Brussels, Belgium Georges Boulanger, (born April 29 , 1837 Rennes, Fr. died Sept. 30, 1891, Brussels) French general, minister of war, and political figure who led a brief but influential authoritarian movement that threatened to topple the Third Republic in the 1880s.

New Jersey has been wetter in the last three decades, but there have also been brief but influential droughts, a condition that is of concern, he said "We have been blessed with a number of years of abundant rain and four situations where the rains came right on the heels of a 12-month drought," he said of the droughts of 1980 , 1985 , 1995nd 1999".

Which Way Is the Front Line From Here is a moving memorial to Hetherington, only 40 when he died, after a brief but influential career as a war photographer that took in extensive periods covering the Liberian civil war and the Afghan conflict.