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A person who has influence

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Having or exerting influence.

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Jane was very influential in getting the motion passed.

The only thing she had to offer him was an influential father-in-law.

They include many well-known and influential families.

Disney went on to become the most influential storyteller on the entire planet.

Three separate capitals must be discriminated Pavia, the seat of the new Lombard kingdom; Ravenna, the garrison city of the Byzantine emperor; and Rome, the rallying point of the old nation, where the successor of St Peter was already beginning to assume that national protectorate which proved so influential in the future.

He soon became one of the most influential men in the colonies.

Currently China is recognized as one of the most influential players in the global economy.

All this was to be done, however, under the strict supervision and guidance of the autocratic power, with as little aid as possible from private initiative and with no control whatever of public opinion, because influential public opinion is apt to produce insubordination.

For the next thirty years he was president of the party, and was the most influential of the parliamentary leaders.

He became influential in Pennsylvania politics, and in1845-1849served in the United States Senate, being elected by a combination of Democratic, Whig and "American" votes to succeed James Buchanan.

Although the rules of the Social Democratic party do not recognize a leader or president, Bebel subsequently became by far the most influential member of the party.

The Jews form a small but influential community.

He was an influential promoter of the Evangelical Alliance.

Hence it was probably the most influential of all Fenelon's books, and guided French ideas on the question all through the 18th century.

They were reserved for the most influential of the clan.

This act theory would prove influential on later scholastics, most notably William Ockham.

The Martins are one of the largest and most influential families in Pine Valley.

Commentary can be very influential with such a wide audience.

Print your executive summary on high-quality paper, since influential investors will see the document.

One of the most influential rock bands of the 90's is undoubtedly the Smashing Pumpkins.

The executive officer is the Amin, a kind of mayor, elected from some influential family in which the dignity is often in practice hereditary.

The Parsees, though influential and wealthy, are a very small community, numbering only 94,000, of whom all but 7000 are found in Bombay.

It was by an assembly that the second reformation was effected; but the assembly contained the most influential of the nobility and gentry, and was carried on the crest of a great national movement.

Here, with Manning as president and Hezekiah Smith (1737-1805), his class-mate at Princeton, as financial agent and influential supporter, the institution (since 1804 known as Brown University) was for many years the only degree-conferring institution controlled by Baptists.

The opposition to union among an influential number of old Nataliansintensely zealous for local independence - was however so marked that it was decided that before Natal was committed to union a referendum on the subject should be taken.

In the beginning he was the most influential man present, but was finally forced to yield to the Alexandrian party, and to vote for a creed which completely repudiated the position of the Arians, with whom he had himself been hitherto more in sympathy than with the Alexandrians.

Before 1546 he had secured employment in the household of Sir Thomas Arundell, a man of influential connexions.

As an educational reformer, as a man of letters and learning, who trod "the large and impartial ways of knowledge," and who swayed others to the same paths, as a thinker influential alike in the action and the reaction to which he led, Cousin stands out conspicuously among the memorable Frenchmen of the 29th century.

The Old Catholic separation followed, but Acton did not personally join the seceders, and the authorities prudently refrained from forcing the hands of so competent and influential an English layman.

A second and still more influential embassy having been sent, Elohim again appeared by night, and this time permitted Balaam to go on condition that he said nothing but what Elohim bade him say.

Suffice it to say that they were enormously influential.

It has been immensely influential and reprinted many times.

Rightly or wrongly, this comment has been enduringly influential.

He remains highly influential still seven years after his death.

In a small but influential section of the educated classes there was a conviction that the revolutionary tendencies, which culminated in Nihilism and Anarchism, proceeded from the adoption of cosmopolitan rather than national principles in all spheres of educational and administrative activity, and that the best remedy for the evils from which the country was suffering was to be found in a return to the three great principles of Nationality, Orthodoxy and Autocracy.

From a childhood of poverty and abuse, she has has become one of the wealthiest and most influential people of all time.

There is no denying that Oprah Winfrey is the most influential woman in entertainment, and arguably, she could also be the most influential woman in the world.

Her popularity has soared since joining the cast of Glee, with Time Magazine naming her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2010.

She was recently named one of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People."

She was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people of 2006.

She soon had a long list of regular clients, most of them wealthy and influential.

Companions and peers are influential in the development of antisocial behaviors.

This theory underlies the most influential forms of contemporary family therapy.

So who are the names that are most influential in the realm of designer alternative handbags?

The rising sign is one of the most influential parts of your birth chart.

The sun signs of individuals are largely influential in a chart, but they are not the only prevailing signs.

This versatility gives the water bearer many opportunities to befriend very influential people who will eagerly open doors of opportunity for her.

This is a powerful sign, and when Scorpio's energies are channeled in a positive direction, he can be a highly influential and beneficial individual within a community.

He had been by far the most influential man in Portugal, and his death in 1876 was followed by a regrouping of political parties.

The founder of this system seems to have been Asanga, an influential monk of Peshawar, who wrote the first text-book of the creed, the Yogachchdra Bhumi Sastra, in the 6th century A.D.

On the following day, Thurn, Wenceslas of Ruppa, Ulrich of Kinsky, and other members of the more advanced party held a secret meeting, at which it was decided to put to death the most influential of Matthias's councillors.