Sentence examples for sinister influence from inspiring English sources

The cause can only be the sinister influence of counter-Enlightenment ideas.

Many others, meanwhile, criticise the undemocratic nature of the closed-door talks and sinister influence of powerful lobbyists.

There was a now a serious risk of ending up with what we had always tried to avoid, an Ireland under hostile and sinister influence".

In "The Iron Whim," Darren Wershler-Henry insists that, until quite recently, the act of typewriting exercised a sinister influence over our lives.

Grateful for the gifts, we draped them around our necks as amulets to ward off the sinister influence of mundanity as we headed to the airport.

Not long after the bear hugs and shots of vodka have been exchanged, Boris begins exerting a sinister influence on his nephew Alex (Raviv Ullman) and his niece Mira (Sarah Steele).

Some of this reasoning might look like an invitation to conspiracy theorists to look for sinister influences on the tribunal's decision-making.

Invoking cold-war language, the general counsel for another chemical company suggested that Carson was a front for "sinister influences" intent on restricting pesticide use in order to reduce American food supplies to the levels of the Eastern bloc.

In one threatening letter to Houghton Mifflin, Velsicol's general counsel insinuated that there were "sinister influences" in Carson's work: she was some kind of agricultural propagandist in the employ of the Soviet Union, he implied, and her intention was to reduce Western countries' ability to produce food, to achieve "east-curtain parity".

For a bleaker view of the British colonial connection, try Tayeb Salih's masterpiece Season of Migration to the North, in which Hussein's optimism about relations with the West is seen as a sinister struggle for influence.

It's no secret that the Republicans who paint Obama as an elitist because he is an intellectual are elite in a profoundly more sinister way: controlling influence, money, power, big media, and pouring billions of dollars into buying elections.