Sentence examples for influential portion of from inspiring English sources

The bounce he got for brokering the still solid peace treaty between Egypt and Israel faded quickly, though not before saddling him with the lasting hostility of an influential portion of the domestic "pro-Israel" lobby.

The Post-Kaiser-Harvard study was designed to probe more deeply into this increasingly influential portion of the electorate: who these voters are, why they remain independent, what they think about major issues and, of particular importance, how they differ from one another.

Last week, I compared Rick Perry in 2012 to Barack Obama in 2008: Like Obama four years ago, Perry doesn't have the profile of an ideal general election candidate, but he's the kind of figure that an influential portion of his party's primary electorate is eager to find a reason to support.

"If you were 15 when you got into them, you are 30 now, and that's an important and influential portion of your life.

Santorum's success going forward clearly depends on his ability to parlay his anti-birth control, anti-gay rights, views into support in upcoming primaries in states like South Carolina and Florida, where conservative Christians constitute an influential portion of the GOP electorate.

To focus our attention on the most influential portion of the network, we created subsets of each network that omitted all nodes with only one link (referred to hereafter as the "focal" version of the network; Fig.  1).

Fichte's philosophy of right (or of "natural law"), as expounded in his Foundation of Natural Right, is one of the most original and influential portions of the Jena Wissenschaftslehre.

One individual offloading their shares is probably no reason for concern but if a significant portion of influential people starts selling up, then you should react accordingly.

For many wine lovers, the news that Robert M. Parker Jr. is planning to sell a portion of his influential newsletter, The Wine Advocate, to a group of Asian investors and step down as editor in chief does not so much signal an end of an era as acknowledges changes that have been under way for a decade.

Companies are missing the opportunity to retain these key people, to help them be even more influential and to prepare a portion of them for key managerial positions in the firm.

In fact, new teachers often point to their field experiences as the most influential and valuable portions of their teacher preparation [30].