In the following excerpt, the interviewer (I) probed the GP about whether participating in STAR influenced his antibiotic prescribing, and the GP seemed quick to point to minimal effect: I: so would you say that [STAR] has changed your actual prescribing behaviour?
Their eyes are open to the limits of rock-star influence -- after all, Pearl Jam lost that battle with Ticketmaster -- but their defeats have only made them more convinced that the reforms they seek must come on an incremental level, through efforts made toward specific causes that organically coalesce.
Others made it part of God's order, saying that stars influence this world in the same way that climate influences plants.
Chown said Davie-Brown, which measures how stars influence consumer purchases through its DBI Index, found that Landis was known by less than half of those surveyed after he won the Tour.
Some have found audiences for their niche interests, like Sangeeta Puri, an economics graduate from Bokaro in the eastern state of Jharkhand, whose blog showcases her interest in astrology (and the stars' influence on the stock market).
The authors explored how established stars influence the flow of ideas by examining what happens to scientific fields when a dominating figure unexpectedly dies.
The official list is always packed with surprises, as everything from pop music to sports stars influence what we name our children.
Use the term astrologer when you are referring to people who divine influences of the stars on human activities and relationships as a form of belief that the stars influence human behaviour.
Less discussed is how much his teen stars influenced him, and how much he wanted them to do so, particularly Ringwald.
He became known for instigating a style which drew on Balmain's couture heritage – plenty of embroidery, astronomical price-tags – but fusing it with rock-star influences.
Four years later he published a work on astrology, maintaining that the stars influenced health; despite attacks by the medical faculty, he matriculated in medicine at Paris in 1538 and subsequently became physician to the archbishop at Vienne, France.
