Sentence examples for leading influential from inspiring English sources

He never lost his ability to create controversy, whether it was provoking Miles Davis into complaining of his unhelpfulness as an accompanist, or leading influential critics to accuse him of staleness after the effects of a bipolar disorder had begun to undermine his powers.

Interview 1, conducted by Herman Parret in 1972, was originally published in 1974 in Discussing Language – a collection of interviews with leading influential linguists of that time (Chafe, Chomsky, Greimas, Hartmann, Lakoff, Lamb, Martinet, McCawley, Saumjan).

Nothing could be better for the industry than having AOL -- and any other leading, influential players -- adopt behaviors that validate the business model that has been and is the foundation of new media: quality vertical content, produced with small batch sensibilities, by and for people who care.

Mr. Lay, in turn, became Mr. Houston, leading the influential business association, the Greater Houston Partnership.

The Pentagon's inspector general concluded this week that Richard N. Perle violated no ethics laws or rules when he was leading an influential Pentagon advisory board while at the same timerepresenting two companies in their dealings with the government.

Chavez looked like he had trouble regulating his own bowels, let alone leading an influential country.

During the Davos meeting in January of this year, the Jordanian monarch and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas decided to move ahead with an initiative to extract the Palestinian issue from Iranian maneuvering and Syrian sponsorship (see this writer's article of 2 February 2007), via the qualitative jump in the positions by leading and influential Arab states.

'Still at Play'' promises to be an exciting memoir that will recount his remarkable career journey that spans over half a century from the golden age of Hollywood until now where he played and continue to perform leading and influential characters of the best films, plays, TV sitcoms and series creating an indelible mark in the industry.

That would mean a government formulary would be hugely influential, leading drug companies to fight desperately -- and discount their products steeply -- to be on it.

"For years she has been the more or less private oracle of one of our leading and very influential psychologists," Hall wrote of Mrs. Piper's hold on James.

She is very much a collectivist in the way she speaks, too – at one point I ask her whether she's up to the task of leading a more influential Plaid, and she replies from the perspective of the party, not herself.