Having sway

Usage examples of influential.

It contained some of the ablest and most influential men in the two Houses of Congress, representing different parts of the country.

Tachyon, Senator Hartmann, Hiram Worchester, and other important and influential politicians and aces streamed toward the limos waiting for them, while Chrysalis, Wilde, and the other obvious jokers on the tour had to make do with the dirty, dented jeeps clustered at the rear of the cavalcade.

Commissioner of Grants for the WSF, who was influential in getting the Archaeopteryx funded.

For example, the influential Caltech biophysicist John Hopfield pointed out a connection between pulse-coupled neurons and earthquakes.

The Cathars were an offshoot of the Bogomils, an heretical movement that first flowered in the Balkans in the mid-tenth century, but which remained influential in the area until after the Cathars met their doom.

Former 8S officers have become influential members of the Austrian Parliament, the German Bundestag, the United States House of Representatives.

Many influential people, Thomas Cedarbird being the ringleader, would like to see them put back in their places, shoved down into the gutters and ghettoes from which Aejys had rescued them.

He had resigned his judgeship in order to spend the autumn months campaigning for the office among his influential friends in Raleigh, while his duties to justice in the mountain counties lay forgotten, overshadowed by his ambition.

And we are told that it is the nearest relations and the most influential men whose ghosts are most dreaded.

He was nothing more than the son of a retainer of an influential clan in Harima, but he did possess a small castle in Himeji and had embraced a great ambition from early on in his life.

An address was voted to the republic of France by the Young Irelanders, who styled themselves the people of Ireland, although they well knew that millions of Irishmen, numbering among them her most intelligent and influential citizens, repudiated the principles and proceedings of the party.

Our success with tularemia the previous year had turned Kalinin into an influential figure.

Xinjiang, which was an influential source of Buddhist art in Central Asia in the first millennium AD: a Khotanese artist is reported to have come to Tibet in the eighth century.

Nevertheless, he was a man of forceful ability and personal magnetism, possessed standing in Lapan as a soldier and leader and was popular and influential among his own people.

Their presence here was unremarkable, and Shasa was on excellent terms with the Mauritian government and most of the influential figures on the island.