But the highly touted English band Temples is not merely influenced by the acid rock of yesteryear, it's consumed by it, and the group displayed its mastery of the aesthetic on its début album, "Sun Structures".
Significant gradients in similar directions were observed in the complete SSC and LSC regions and also within individual halves of these regions, even after excluding the tail ends of inverted repeats suggesting that the detection of these symmetric gradients is not merely influenced by the nucleotide composition of the inverted repeats themselves (data not shown).
Politicians aren't merely influenced by the gun lobby.
This, of course, was the point: not merely to influence events but to be seen as influencing them.
He cited Dr. King as not merely an influence but as sine qua non to his, Obama's, very presidency -- and then called King's methods unworkable for a head of state.
Citizens do not merely monitor and influence the government (per the theory of deliberative democracy) nor serve other people in community settings (emphasized in the idea of social capital); they also literally build, make, and maintain public goods.
In this context, "Marxism" refers not merely to thinking influenced by Karl Marx's magisterial three volumes laying bare the unavoidable exploitation at the heart of capitalism – it becomes a random, ill-conceived slur to stave off any and all criticism of its operations.
It seems to me that, when effort is required for reasons that are external to the agent's moral character, this does not merely weaken the negative influence of Effort Required on moral worth; rather, in such cases, there is no negative influence at all.
He knew little of Spain — he didn't actually go there until 1865 — and his emulation of Velázquez and other Spanish artists was not merely a matter of influence.
The best are like those Keynes described: not only good mathematicians, but also creative and insightful thinkers who influence not merely policy decisions, but the direction of human thought.
