His influential Dialogues of the Dead, with their coolly satirical tone, inspired innumerable imitations in England and France during the 17th and 18th centuries, e.g., dialogues by the French writers Bernard de Fontenelle (1683) and François Fénelon (1700 12).
Yet another member of the early Academy, Heraclides of Pontus (Gottschalk 1980), in a series of influential dialogues, further developed the presentation of Pythagoras as the founder of philosophy.
In other words, what people say, talk about and recommend to each other is still much more influential in daily dialogue than the tsunami of content and distractions we encounter in the never ending show-reel of social media, but is still largely immeasurable.
Raimon Panikkar, a Roman Catholic theologian whose embrace of Hindu scriptures and Buddhism made him an influential voice for promoting dialogue among the world's religions, died on Aug. 26 at his home in Tavertet, Spain.
Mr. Karibazhanov, deputy speaker of Kazakhstan's lower house of Parliament and chairman of the Kazakh-Kyrgyz interparliamentary group, together with envoys from the U.N. and the E.U., played an influential role in facilitating dialogue and defusing tensions.
Reacting to President Bush's charge in his State of the Union address that it was part of an "axis of evil," North Korea today backed away from an initiative it had quietly begun for opening a dialogue with influential American experts.
Their peripheral presence and participation in the Learning Dialogues created influential social political arrangements that both enabled and constrained the social space as power shifted in different ways among the participants.
This month, the world was so moved by the stories of two particular children that it could not help but pay attention.The public dialogue was so influential that it spurred some of our world leaders to take action to alleviate problems that many of their peers continue to overlook.
For the next few years he travelled between Bologna, Recanati, Pisa, and Florence and published Versi (1826), an enlarged collection of poems; and Operette morali (1827; "Minor Moral Works"), an influential philosophical exposition, mainly in dialogue form, of his doctrine of despair.
The South Africa-based businessman spent Friday with Rangers supporters' groups and influential fans, as well as opening dialogue with the board, who released a statement after Saturday's match.
Step by step, dialogue with communities and influential leaders can help relegate polio to its rightful place, next to smallpox, on the list of diseases that were once devastating – but that humankind has finally overcome.
