Sentence examples for sense of influence from inspiring English sources

The thefts could of course be linked in the sense of influence rather than direct connection - the history books are full of high-profile copycat crimes - yet the detail of Sunday's theft may suggest more than four days' forethought.

Funny, but also terribly true: the same obsessive drive for attention, the same deluded sense of influence and importance, except that for a politician, unlike your run-of-the-mill Home and Away starlet, the potential to do actual social good – and of course harm – does exist.

Discussion through comments led to a greater sense of influence and greater involvement for those sharing the news story.

"Occupying a higher position in the local ladder thus created a sense of influence and control over one's social environment, as well as a sense of belonging and acceptance," explain the authors.

Alongside jobs and social capital, one of the most abject losses experienced by the residents of Tilbury has been the erosion of a sense of influence over their lives, just as those lives have grown harder — not an abstract loss, but a concrete and institutionalized one that has accompanied a generation-long, top-down dismantling of municipal governance.

Personal control consists of one's sense of influence over oneself and his or her environment.

We all got some sense of the influence on the novelist of her academic profession.

In fact, Mohseni has been called the Rupert Murdoch of Afghanistan, and though the comparison is extravagant, it gives a sense of his influence and ambition.

"He has a very well-informed sense of the influence of politics on his business interests," said Reed Hundt, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission in the first Clinton administration, who during negotiations had an up-close view of how the media mogul seeks to influence government.

Talk to consultants in private, and a sense of their influence emerges.

Binary logistic and Tobit regression models were constructed to determine whether risk perception and sense of place influence landslide preparedness.