Sentence examples for second most influential from inspiring English sources

In 1950, a survey of female reporters identified Post as the second most influential woman in America, just after Eleanor Roosevelt.

Mr. Gore was known within the administration as at least the second most influential adviser to the president, after Hillary Rodham Clinton.

There can be little disputing the Beatles were the most influential band of the 60s, but there's a strong case that the Velvet Underground have become the second most influential by stealth.

Through a pair of heavy glass doors, down a narrow corridor, in an office that looks out over the migrainous lights of Times Square sits the world's second most influential person in fashion, Grace Coddington.

Mr. Jalili, the presumed front-runner, visited the city twice last week, nailing down the support of Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi, who, according to analysts, seems to be the second most influential cleric in Iran, after the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The speaker of the Council, elected by the members, is, arguably, the second most influential official in the city, and the position will become vacant in January, when the current speaker, Christine C. Quinn, leaves office after her defeat in this year's race for the Democratic nomination for mayor.

Last year he was also named the world's third most influential marketing executive, behind his counterparts at Apple and Samsung.

Vivian Hunt Voted the third most influential black woman in Britain this year, Mrs Hunt, 45, leads McKinsey's pharmaceuticals and medical products practice in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Andy Warhol's Marilyn Diptych - with its resonances of celebrity, death and tragedy - was named the third most influential work, and Henri Matisse's The Red Studio, the fifth.

The Belgian political magazine Knack has since named him the country's fourth most influential person, just behind Manchester City footballer Vincent Kompany.

From being entirely unknown to being voted the seventh most influential person on the planet by the readers of Time magazine, 14 places ahead of President Barack Obama?