Sentence examples for influential persons from inspiring English sources

Damian developed into one of the most influential persons in the Church of his time who, through his writings and personal contacts, sought to foster monastic reform and reform of the Church.

Fortunately, wiser and more influential persons have also struggled to understand the murky world of drugs.

The quality of Mudge's work brought him commissions from Ferdinand VI of Spain, the engineer John Smeaton, and other influential persons throughout Europe.

There's a kind of cranky iconoclasm in the essay, with its scorn for those McCarthy calls "influential persons," the unnamed experts in psychology and linguistics that dominate the discussion of these topics.

"The problem is that this law can be very easily misused by influential persons to curb inconvenient conversations," said Marx Anthonisamy , a human rights activist who filed the public interest lawsuit.

In 1982 an American Psychological Association survey of clinical psychologists ranked Ellis ahead of Freud and second only to Carl R. Rogers on a list of the most influential persons in their field.

"He was the most influential person in football history.

Who has been the most influential person in your life?

Bashir's relationship to Saddam made him a very influential person in Baghdad.

He remains the most influential person in my professional life in America.

Yousafzai also wrote for the magazine, to honor fellow influential person Hillary Clinton.