adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an influential position
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It's useful if you have friends in influential positions.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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Advertisers are not as influential as they seem.
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Their contemporary, postwar work was often as influential as their prewar discoveries.
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Miller and Swift's Handbook is an extremely influential text; it and similar books are on all the best shelves nowadays.
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The limitations of party competition Schumpeter's redefinition of democracy as a method has been extremely influential .
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This view has been extremely influential .
highly
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In this respect no figure is more characteristic of the twentieth century than the highly influential economist John Maynard Keynes.
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Through the Pattens, Joe met many new friends, some highly influential , others merely famous.
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Marxist - Leninist ideas became highly influential among the intelligentsia in the 1920s and have remained so ever since.
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The ie has ceased to exist as a legal entity, but the family unit has remained highly influential .
increasingly
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However, in the second half David Beckham became increasingly influential .
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This viewpoint was becoming increasingly influential in Moscow.
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The Audit Commission has become increasingly influential over education policy.
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It is an increasingly influential idea in evolutionary theory, and one that will recur throughout the book.
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Accountants are increasingly influential in the boardrooms of large and small companies throughout the world.
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The Construction industry Council is becoming increasingly influential and now speaks on behalf of all industry professionals.
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Meanwhile the NGOs, which are increasingly influential players at global summits, are also making their preparations.
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Now, an increasingly influential and literate middle class was sharing in making it and in the demand for it.
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But this activity was less influential than the rumours which began to circulate about the New Poor Law.
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Party leaders became less influential in the choice of delegates.
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Forty-five per cent said that farming organisations were less influential than they were 20 years ago.
more
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In many societies, for example, manufacturing capital is more influential than it is in Britain.
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The religious conservative vote is perhaps more influential in South Carolina than in any state.
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His historical analysis of the problem has proved even more influential than his own philosophical attempts to respond to it.
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The other, still more influential , was Stoicism.
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How far are market forces in this area more influential in determining who gets what housing than state intervention?
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Hugh Gaitskell, more influential as leader of the Opposition than many prime ministers, had declared that socialism was about equality.
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It would also create a community in which the Orthodox were far more influential than they are today.
most
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Is it possible to determine who are the most influential individuals in terms of either their ideas or actions?
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The Slaters were one of the most influential families in Norwich history and the history of textile manufacturing in this country.
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Advanced classes study the classical works of the most influential writers of the Patristic, Medieval, Reformation and Modern periods.
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One man Ebony mentioned, but only in passing, would become one of the most influential black deejays of all time.
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Actually, the master criminal was carrying out his greatest coup, to murder and replace the world's most influential intelligence.
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Errors and Expectations was probably the most influential work of pedagogy to emerge from the world of open admissions.
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The works of the most influential modern writer in the genre, Robert Heinlein, are suffused with economics.
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Though he holds no official post, he is seen as the most influential politician in the state.
particularly
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Jungianism is particularly influential in woman-centred psychological theory.
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The scientistic rationale was particularly influential in the creation of modern economic theory.
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His introduction to the Hackett translation of the Theaetetus has been particularly influential .
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The establishment of a botanical laboratory at Buitenzorg in Java was particularly influential .
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The realist view of power has been particularly influential in the United States among theorists and foreign-policy practitioners alike.
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This shows that slope form and soil moisture status are particularly influential in determining erosion rates.
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The work of Dewey Within political theory the work of John Dewey has been particularly influential .
politically
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Getting these automated systems to work will require cooperation of the politically influential postal unions.
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But it also is true that neither candidate came from a wealthy, politically influential family or a powerful political machine.
so
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And it is their Derrida, the nihilist or joker, who has been so influential in literature departments.
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The book is likely to fuel some disputes about whether Morris was really so influential and instrumental as he claims.
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This is so ingrained and so influential , I shall have occasion to come back to it many times.
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Unfortunately for you, your work was so influential that you now have no secrets from posterity.
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By 1411 Hus had become so influential that Prague was laid under papal interdict.
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Evans-Pritchard's arguments against Freud have been very influential in anthropology and, by extension, within sociology.
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Lacan has been very influential , although he is an almost impenetrably obscure writer.
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Cybercommunities, organizing themselves rapidly in response to slow central governments will be very influential .
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Superman was also to prove very influential at stud.
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The type of subsoil upon which the foundations are built is a very influential factor.
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Vinny Jones - Again very influential during the promotion season, Wilko signed him as a notice of intent.
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In spite of their unsystematic nature they were nevertheless very influential in constructing a particular image of political woman.
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It is worth remembering that nursing staff can be very influential in making recommendations.
widely
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Blues, of course, has been widely influential , indeed formative, on the development of rock.
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Each achieved or produced something spectacularly new and each was widely influential , often sparking creative collaboration elsewhere.
■ NOUN
book
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Another influential book of the seventies, Braverman's Labour and Monopoly Capital, proved gender-blind.
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Maine's most influential book , Ancient Law, was first published in 1861, ten years after the Great Exhibition.
factor
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The type of subsoil upon which the foundations are built is a very influential factor .
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The timing of pay increases has clearly become an influential factor in organizations' compensation programs.
figure
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An influential figure in selecting Boudiaf's successor appeared to be Maj.-Gen.
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But administration officials and other sources now concede that Alispahic remains an influential figure with close ties to Izetbegovic.
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The fear remains that one of the most influential figures in this year's championship could yet lose out.
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Behind-the-scenes assistance came from influential figures in politics and the arts, including U. S. Sen.
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After a spell in borstal he was introduced to influential figures in the London underworld of the mid-60s.
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Former Middlesbrough boss Bruce Rioch was the influential figure behind a double promotion triumph.
figures
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The fear remains that one of the most influential figures in this year's championship could yet lose out.
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Behind-the-scenes assistance came from influential figures in politics and the arts, including U. S. Sen.
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After a spell in borstal he was introduced to influential figures in the London underworld of the mid-60s.
friend
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Ashbee and his influential friends met or corresponded almost daily to pursue their tastes.
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I interceded with an influential friend to gain the youth political asylum.
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Mr Komarek may have some influential friends , but he also faces powerful enemies.
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Christine Mills did not have any really influential friends but Taczek certainly did.
group
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The scheme was introduced by an influential group of senators and is almost certain to pass.
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Lewis was a leading member of an influential group of Catholic writers who flourished between the wars.
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We had prominent citizens and influential groups cable the Prime Minister and the provincial Premier.
man
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She's the daughter of a journalist, an influential man .
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But Adalard was not the only influential man in Charles's entourage at this time.
people
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The North will not get that investment if certain influential people keeping banging on about how wonderful things are.
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But I knew I would get strong support from a lot of influential people .
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Depending on how influential people were, Mickey either nodded at them or gave them a hearty greeting.
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Go to meetings and talk with influential people .
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He would meet many kinds of influential people .
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Sometimes, influential people are not the most overtly powerful.
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Making contacts Having access to influential people and people who can give you information is helpful.
politician
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An influential politician would command patronage, although one didn't like to think of it like that.
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Osmena, one of the most influential politicians in the national legislature.
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But influential politicians were still required to push the new policies.
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Though he holds no official post, he is seen as the most influential politician in the state.
position
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Many of the latest appointees to influential positions are products of Dorothy Heathcote's and my own teaching.
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But the influential position of giant corporations varies significantly from industry to industry.
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Do hearing people tend to occupy more influential positions in technology than do deaf people?
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Both approaches, whilst encouraging interaction between teachers and project staff, left the teacher in the less influential position .
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It allows Mr Yeltsin to put a reformer into this influential position .
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It is read by the leaders of industry and commerce, graduates in influential positions .
report
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They investigate specific topics, with the aid of specialist advisers, and have issued some influential reports .
role
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The influential role played by President Francesco Cossiga in events leading to Andreotti's resignation drew criticism from some political quarters.
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Personal likes and dislikes play a more influential role in international affairs than is often thought.
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What, for example, is the basis for the influential role doctors have been able to play in health service policies?
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These findings suggest that media coverage did not play an influential role in encouraging people to participate in the Detroit riot.
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He also kicked badly out of hand until he settled down to play a more influential role after the interval.
work
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It is the meaning attributed to the de-industrialisation process by the influential work of Bacon and Eltis in the mid-1970s.
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Errors and Expectations was probably the most influential work of pedagogy to emerge from the world of open admissions.
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He is wide-ranging in his interests, but his most influential work falls into two areas.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a highly influential member of Hong Kong's banking community
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Although she was not a professional politician, her views were influential in shaping government policy.
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an influential film critic
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an influential religious leader
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Galbraith was a highly influential writer on economic affairs.
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Her uncle is a rich and influential businessman.
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It is a highly influential art magazine that is widely read by dealers.
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Jacobson's one of the most influential people in New York.
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Marx was clearly the most influential of all the socialist writers.
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She is probably the most influential member of the finance committee.
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The program has gained the support of several influential businessmen.
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Various groups were influential in shaping public policy.