Sentence examples for the primary influences from inspiring English sources

Jared Diamond (in "Guns, Germs, and Steel") sees geography and environment as the primary influences on the development of Western technology and power; David S. Landes (in "The Wealth and Poverty of Nations") argues that differences in cultural values and social organization made the difference.

What we said: "One of the primary influences on the album seems to be the sort of smooth 70s LA rock collected on last year's Too Slow to Disco compilation – there are a lot of breezy guitar solos and jazzy, Steely Dan-esque chord changes," wrote Alexis Petridis, in his lead review for the Guardian.

This week, during an interview with Total Film, Hardy revealed that one of the primary influences for his role as Forrest Bondurant in the upcoming crime thriller Lawless was Come Dine with Me. "I watch Come Dine with Me!" he told the magazine.

The primary influences on the songs are gospel and country (Byrne even starts yodelling towards the end of Life Is Long, perhaps the one moment on the album that you could describe as genuinely startling) albeit gospel and country given a characteristically strange shimmer by Eno's arrangements.

One of the primary influences on the album seems to be the sort of smooth 70s LA rock collected on last year's Too Slow to Disco compilation – there are a lot of breezy guitar solos and jazzy, Steely Danesque chord changes.

The primary influences in this period were John Stuart Mill, Anton Marty, and Edmund Husserl: he himself described the works as grammatical in nature.

Most bizarrely, Genesis were the primary influence on the Australian prog band Fraternity, whose singer, Bon Scott.

Second, we must decide how determined we are to ensure that scientific evidence is the primary influence on policy delivery.

She cited Robert Ludlum's "Bourne Identity" as the primary influence on her new novel, "The Informationist".

Chaudhuri's publisher draws comparison with the detailed minutiae of Karl Ove Knausgaard, but the primary influence on the book is Ulysses, and behind that Homer's Odyssey.

Vocal performance is the oldest and the primary influence for the development of all subsequent musical gestures and materials.