Sentence examples for surprisingly influential from inspiring English sources

The dealers' victory wasn't an anomaly: associations of small businesses and producers are often surprisingly influential.

But looking back at the new image created by the designers Pierpaolo Piccioli and Maria Grazia Chiuri, it seems that their tenure has been surprisingly influential.

Over the years, Max Fish became surprisingly influential, home to a loose confederation of artists and layabouts and doers and be-ers, and the inspiration for similar establishments around the country.

There was the surprisingly influential Beat Street (credited as helping the rise in popularity of hip hop in Germany, no less), the surprisingly successful Breakin' (which made $57m despite, or maybe because of, a Jean-Claude Van Damme cameo) and then the rushed, yet iconically titled, sequel Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo.

Yet 25 years on, this most ascetic of bands have proved surprisingly influential, with tyros such as Franz Ferdinand, the Rapture and Bloc Party owing a clear debt to their serrated funk-punk - hence this unexpected, but highly welcome, short reunion tour.

Like so many other efforts from recent years, The Program arguably owes a debt to the most surprisingly influential movie poster of the past decade: Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg was likewise represented on the poster for 2010's The Social Network as "PUNK PROPHET GENIUS BILLIONAIRE TRAITOR".

Mr Lerach and his partners have spent the past couple of years making friends in surprisingly influential quarters.

More surprisingly, so do some influential Frenchmen, including Alain Lamassoure, an MEP who is one of Mr Sarkozy's advisers.

Several influential directors took surprisingly public potshots at the 3-D boom during the recent Comic-Con International pop culture convention in San Diego.

However, evidence supporting this influential concept is surprisingly limited [12].

In surprisingly frank terms, a number of influential people in American Olympic sports questioned the performance of the U.S.O.C.'s new management team and said its two top executives were ill-equipped to navigate the insular world of international sports.