Well, The Washington Post is now providing the "Beltway influential" set the same sort of service that ordinary people might obtain from this thing commonly referred to as "a newspaper".
In 1923, the association developed an influential set of recommendations about street-sign shapes whose impact is still felt today.
An influential set of studies showed that even just thinking about money makes people less likely to help others and less interested in spending time with others.
A site like Deadspin has long used a mix of contributors, some drawing the mass traffic with dong shots, some appealing to a smaller and more influential set of readers.
An influential set of analysts at Investec, a bank, even called for the firm to sell or spin off large chunks of itself to consolidate its position as the world's second-largest jet-engine firm.
The distinction between innovative treatment and research was addressed for the first time by the Belmont Report, an influential set of ethics guidelines, issued in 1979 and inspired by a case of gross abuse — the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
Peuerbach also computed an influential set of eclipse tables, Tabulae eclipsium (c. 1459), based on the Alfonsine Tables, that circulated widely in manuscript before the first Viennese edition (1514).
Whitmarsh rightly underlines the central importance of ancient Scepticism in the history of atheism; these philosophers came up with a hugely influential set of arguments against a vast range of religious claims.
Arendt makes this distinction between practical reason and obedience in Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1963 and seven years later she began her influential set of lectures on Kant's political philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York City.
These were the ideas of the Southern Agrarians — that extraordinarily accomplished and influential set of writers and critics who embraced the modernism of Yeats and Pound and Eliot, exactly because it seemed to them a protest against modernization of all types, while they dreamed of a reformed "organic" society in the South, with that "identity," that cult of "private honor," still accessible.
