More powerful influences shape culture.
The reigning footballer of the year is a gentle enough soul, surrounded by some powerful influences.
Born to privilege, young Teedie grew up with two powerful influences.
Socially activist investors, including citizen-investors, are amongst the powerful influences keeping companies honest".
The most powerful influences along that road, however, may flow from the East.
Often, we're fighting against negative stereotypes foisted on society by the powerful influences of film, television and other media.
Later, the more advanced approaches of the second-generation beboppers Clifford Brown, Fats Navarro, Art Farmer and Booker Little became powerful influences.
But critics have argued that in wading into the complexities of modern human sexual relationships, scientists are on much shakier ground, often ignoring the powerful influences of culture.
Cause and effect were powerful influences on a match in which competitive edge was sharpened by events in Edinburgh just an hour before.
It began: "Two men stand out as the most powerful influences on 20th-century typography: Stanley Morison, who died in 1967, and Jan Tschichold".
Mr. Alter argues that is how all canons become powerful influences, as "bustling junctions of contradictory aims and values, and not, as many of the new critics of the canon claim, vehicles for the enforcement of ideological conformity".
