Sentence examples for make influential from inspiring English sources

Mr. Felton told Thomas Struss, a fellow inmate at a New Jersey prison, that he planned to make influential blacks and Jews, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Steven Spielberg, his targets, Mr. Merritt said.

As Connecticut's richest town, Greenwich has always held some allure for politicians looking to raise money and make influential friends, but with several of the current presidential contenders wanting to raise upwards of $500 million to stay competitive through the general election, the richest of the town's 61,000 residents are being wooed more than ever.

Concurrently, advances in biomedical informatics have made it possible to harness the power of large datasets and make influential predictions for molecular recognition (6).

Ma also had made influential friends at court.

(This panel of outside experts doesn't formally approve new drugs, but makes influential recommendations to the agency).

As Mr. Putin's finance minister, Mr. Kudrin made it his mission to steer oil revenues into a stabilization fund, and he made influential enemies.

One of the musicians who, like Mr. Leonhardt, made influential recordings on period instruments in the 1950s and 1960s was August Wenzinger, not Wenziger.

After addressing a conference in Ethiopia he travelled through North and West Africa and visited London, where he made influential friends including Hugh Gaitskell, the Labour opposition leader, and David Astor, the editor of The Observer.

A24 SCIENCE/HEALTH Air Pollution Risks Revised Scientists who made influential studies that linked sooty air pollution with higher death rates lowered their estimate of the risk on bad-air days.

In Novgorod the principal actor in the government's interest was the metropolitan Nikon, an energetic and authoritarian monk who had made influential friends in Moscow while archimandrite at the Romanov family church and continued assiduously to cultivate the tsar and his relations while in Novgorod.

Reid also made influential contributions to philosophical topics including ethics, aesthetics and the philosophy of mind.