Sentence examples for influential section from inspiring English sources

A further influential section of Book II is Locke's treatment of the association of ideas.

At the same time New Hampshire voters are less likely to be socially conservative than those in Iowa, where religious voters make up a more influential section of the Republican electorate.

Arnold saw in the Philistines the key to the whole position; they were now the most influential section of society; their strength was the nation's strength, their crudeness its crudeness: Educate and humanize the Philistines, therefore.

Gove-ism represented another key shift, as an influential section of the Conservative party finally ditched its party's traditional support for grammars and embraced an almost militant evangelism about high-quality non-selective education, even if some academies and free schools are driven to use their so-called freedoms to keep out lower-performing children.

The most influential section in the Aristotelian tradition, where the relationship between the theoretical or speculative sciences is dealt with, is the beginning of Aristotle's treatise On the Soul.

In an immensely influential section of his A Theory of Justice he introduced the metaphors of the social and natural lotteries (for a brief overview over Rawls' appeal to luck and the legacy of this appeal, see Knight and Stemplowska 2011, 2-9).

Large, influential sections of Thai society find rule by the Thaksin family simply intolerable.

In addition, their very lack of legitimacy may tempt autocracies to bribe influential sections of the electorate.Nevertheless, democracies face awkward decisions in the years ahead.

But in the defiant, explosive defense he has mounted over 50 days of hearings, he has won broad support from fellow officers, military analysts and influential sections of the Indian press.

In earlier times, tension would dissipate, because of Australia's benign image, the early support for Indonesia's independence in influential sections of the Australian community, the embrace of Indonesian language study in our schools, some pioneer mining and other businesses, and the 20m-strong audience for Radio Australia.

The importance of this speech by a French politician, who today stands as the veritable leader of the Parliamentary opposition to the Popular Front and the Daladier government, lies in its indication that influential sections of French public opinion are hostile to the idea of France being dragged into war over an issue in Central Europe that does not directly concern it.