Sentence examples for was a formative influence from inspiring English sources

See also Jonathan Burrows was a formative influence on Khan.

Nor that she was a formative influence on Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol.

It survived only three years, but was a formative influence in establishing an independent modern dance sector.

As with many journalists of a certain age, the television show Press Gang was a formative influence on Lisa Smosarski.

But this concert also featured music by a generation of composers in their 40s, for whom the great Frenchman was a formative influence.

Re "Eudora Welty's Daringly Sheltered Life" (editorial, July 25): New Yorkers might be gratified to know that their city was a formative influence on Eudora Welty.

For Kim Jones, the most exciting menswear designer to have emerged from London in the past few years, the colour of sportswear has been a formative influence.

With an all-female lineup consisting of Donita Sparks, Suzi Gardner, Jennifer Finch and Demetra Plakas, they were a formative influence on the Riot Grrrl movement, and their feminist campaigning was instrumental in setting up the pro-choice benefit gigs Rock For Choice.

They even shared a bill with a contortionist called the Amazing Rubber Man, who, come to think of it, may have been a formative influence on Jagger's evolving stage antics.

Their crowdfunding venture is characteristic: in the 1980s Flicks had one of the very first searchable computer databases, strongly rumoured to have been a formative influence on adopted Bristolian Col Needham, who went on to found IMDb.

The funniest one comes during the closing credits, when the rapper Xzibit testifies that the Country Bears were a formative influence on hip-hop, certainly something the Eagles could never claim.