Sentence examples for take on influence from inspiring English sources

Under this second model, a "tournament winner" emerges, and a single decision (e.g., Judge Easterbrook's ProCD opinion enforcing a shrink-wrap license) begins to take on influence and govern subsequent disputes, largely irrespective of jurisdiction or court hierarchy.

We're always inheriting, but you can't just take on influence for free.

It gained wider audiences through the 1980s and 1990s as it becoming more electric and romantic, taking on influences, including Dominican merengue.

SurveyUSA polled 9,600 voters in battleground states and congressional districts -- 400 each from individual districts and 600 each from four swing states -- to get their take on the influence of corporate money on the political process.

Two terrific films take on the corruptive influence of capitalism and the creeping defeat of self-made success in not-quite-modern America.

JJ Abrams managed to work alongside Steven Spielberg himself for throwback fantasy Super 8 before taking charge of the rebooted Star Wars franchise, Gareth Edwards admitted that his take on Godzilla was influenced by Close Encounters of the Third Kind and others such as Rian Johnson and Joss Whedon are clear students of the multiplex masters who birthed the event movie.

The most important influence challenge we'll ever take on is that of influencing ourselves.

In 1992, Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas, after heated internal debate, decided to indirectly take on Jesse Jackson, a dominant influence in the Democratic Party and a controversial figure for many voters.

George Sand by Elizabeth Harlan 384pp, Yale, £25 George Sand's voluminous works are not much read these days, and it is hard to take on board what a huge influence she had, even in this country, in her own time.

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices.

Those conditions have taken on greater influence at a time when the construction of power plants has waned -- especially in California -- and the rising demand for power is taxing the existing plants throughout the West.