Sentence examples for the principal influence from inspiring English sources

He was grandson of the noted lighting designer Sidney William Hamlyn, who was the principal influence on Robin's cultural development.

In 1948 he became a student of Lennie Tristano, who was the principal influence upon his art.

For years after it was founded, Martha Graham was the principal influence, but now it's the homegrown choreographer Ohad Naharin, with his unique mind-body technique — known as Gaga — who has shaped the company's fierce, seemingly boneless style.

Born into a sharecropping family, James played guitar in his teens and toured the Mississippi Delta with Robert Johnson, the principal influence on his music, in the late 1930s.

The principal influence on yields has been changes in the markets' views on inflation and, in the United States, on the economy's ability to maintain its exuberant economic growth without unduly pushing up prices.

The principal influence for AT sorption was attributed to organic carbon content and physical bonding on quartz for soil samples.

One of the principal influences on Blake is the 19th-century French artist and satirist Honoré Daumier.

The principal influences upon his thinking were empiricism, represented by the English philosopher John Locke, and Continental skepticism, represented by Pierre Bayle.

The reason, he says, is that the principal influences on a currency's potential as an international currency are the relative size of the underlying economy and that economy's share of global trade.

This lucid, fair-minded book examines the principal influences on inequality — including the decline of labor unions and rising competition with China, India and other low-wage countries — and what it means for American society.

Discussion: Group, quantity, and loss of control appear to exert the principal influences on binge judgments.