Sentence examples for mighty influence from inspiring English sources

Not for nothing is Oehlen a mighty influence on younger artists, showing them the rewards in freedom that may follow upon a willing sacrifice of propriety.

He did not have a solo show in the city until 1895, when he was fifty-five and a mighty influence on younger painters.

It will determine how the economic powerhouse of Europe defines its future and how it exerts its mighty influence -- with or without a player whose record-breaking stint in office has made Mr. Kohl an immutable center of gravity.

In a film of the 1959 groundbreaking shown here, President Dwight D. Eisenhower declares that the center will become "a mighty influence for peace and understanding throughout the world" — this in an era when "cultural exchange" inspired nearly utopian dreams.

Wally, an insurance salesman, is described in shorthand as "pure 'Glengarry Glen Ross.' " After a date, a friend asks, "Did you 'close'?" And, throughout, one Mamet play wields mighty influence: "Sexual Perversity in Chicago" (1974).

"If they can do this under a tent," the president said, "why the square?" Turning serious, he forecast that this ambitious endeavor, which wound up costing $185 million, would become a "mighty influence for peace and understanding throughout the world".

Each generation of Duke leaders has acted decisively in the face of ferment and turmoil to resist -- as President Few put it -- the mighty influences that would sway the university from its true course and to boldly accept the consequences of their choice.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed: even if mighty politico-commercial influences pushed governments into doing what they did, that is another matter – a way of manipulating markets rather than participating properly in them – and was not the fault of the stock exchange.

It's hard, for example, to imagine The Mighty Boosh helping to influence national political opinion, as Schaal (in however small a way) helped to do in her work for The Daily Show during the presidential election.

He is also critical of the state of television news, though he acknowledges, "It makes no sense for people like us to get all high and mighty about the corrupting influence of money in the news business when we ourselves are the beneficiaries of this newfound prosperity".

ROME — Is the Catholic Church a beleaguered underdog, fighting for a voice in secular Europe, or a still-mighty power, wielding its influence on European law through friendly center-right governments?