Sentence examples for reign of influence from inspiring English sources

Nearly all of the recent commentaries on political change praised Mr. Hu as a potential standard-bearer and implicitly blamed Mr. Jiang for stifling change, both during his formal rule and now during his extended reign of influence.

With states rushing their contests to the start of the nominating season, the political calendar is becoming more unsettled by the day, jeopardizing New Hampshire's reign of influence over the nominating process.

Years later in 1995, when Mr Pramoedya won the Magsaysay prize, a kind of Asian Nobel, and the government stopped him from going to Manila to receive it, 26 writers and artists signed a letter of protest not about the travel ban but about rewarding any writer who had once led a "witchhunt".Yet Mr Pramoedya's reign of influence was brief.

This interest by itself would hardly justify another retelling of the familiar Rasputin story, nearly a century after his reign of occult influence on the Russian imperial family.

During Nasser's reign, the influence of al-Azhar on society, and by extension that of religion, greatly increased.

In 957 Igor's widow, Olga, was baptized and paid a state visit to Constantinople during the reign of Constantine VII; her influence enabled Byzantine missionaries to work with greater security in Russia, thus spreading Christianity and Byzantine culture.

In late Antiquity and in the Middle Ages, the temperaments were understood to fall under the reign of the stars, which influence the generation and corruption of bodies in the sublunar sphere.

Llywelyn the Great initially controlled the princedom of Gwynedd, but grew more powerful over the course of his reign, extending his influence over much of Wales during the early years of the 13th century.

Since the reign of Jimi Hendrix, a clear influence on the Queens of the Stone Age guitarist, Joshua Homme, metal guitarists have bent strings, beaten fingerboards and pounded pedals to get their instruments to utter strange divinations.

The consecration ceremonies and rituals associated with kingship began during the reign of Devanampiya Tissa, under the influence of Ashoka of India.

He maintained his influence during the reign of Peter II (reigned 1727 30), and, as a reward for helping Anna Ivanovna retain her autocratic powers when she became empress (1730), he was made a count and Anna's "first cabinet minister" (1731).