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Sentences starting with influence

Influence in society, however, is a capital which has to be economized if it is to last. [2]

Sentences ending with influence

Our restraint gave way under its influence. [9]
But his hand was still on his patient's pulse, which told him unmistakably that the heart had taken the alarm and was losing its energy under the depressing nervous influence. [6]
She was set upon a new path of influence. [11]
And should we try to counteract this influence? [14]
They meant to train them to a harmonious development of mind and body; and upon these young people their pure spirit of patriotism exerted a vast influence. [10]
It is hard to tell how far such little incidents affected her in what she did that afternoon; but they had their influence. [11]
Prince Vasili knew this, and having once realized that if he asked on behalf of all who begged of him, he would soon be unable to ask for himself, he became chary of using his influence. [2]
I fear now their going back without any expression from anyone in authority will have a bad influence. [7]
Now he understood the vague, eerie influence. [11]
They have lost the power of distinguishing right from wrong; they commonly lack will-power, and so are incapable of changing their habits without external influence. [4]

Short sentences using influence

The "largest visible influence. [5]
There's a malignant influence working. [11]
Schelling, idealism, 148; influence 173. [6]
This theatre is an influence. [5]
Spinoza, influence, 173, 380. [6]
Proclus, influence, 173, 380. [6]

Sentences containing influence two or more times

The influence of your telegram the other day is still upon me, and has impressed me with the idea that there are many parts of the problem which influence you that are not known to me. [7]
During those 1500 years, Satan's influence was worth very nearly a hundred times as much to the business as was the influence of all the rest of the Holy Family put together. [5]
It would be useless for me to try to influence you, and from what Mr. Ritchie and others have told me of your character I am sure that no influence will be necessary. [9]
He next considers the influence of the past, and especially of books as the best type of that influence. [6]
Then it is the influence of fashion; and what is the influence of fashion but the influence that other people's actions have on our actions--the strong inclination each of us feels to do as we see all our neighbors do? [7]
The old cure, M. Langon, had had much influence over her, for few could resist the amazing personal influence which his rare pure soul secured over the worst. [11]
There is no influence like the influence of habit, and that is how, when the minds of people are at one, physical distances and differences, no matter how great, are invisible, or at least not obvious. [11]
There is no influence comparable in human life to the personality of a powerful man, so long as he is present to his generation, or lives in the memory of those who felt his influence. [4]
Then he reminded her of the healing and soothing influence she had over Caracalla, and that this influence came doubtless from the gods, since it passed the bounds of nature and acted so beneficently. [10]

More example sentences with the word influence in them

It's because of your deteriorating influence, I suppose. [9]
I will repay you with my warmest gratitude, for, though the Romans said that Cupid conquered through the eyes, yet Barbara's singing exerted a far more powerful influence over my heart than even her wonderful golden hair. [10]
Mr. Carvel thought you dead, and we cannot prove undue influence by Grafton unless we also prove that it was he who caused your abduction. [9]
What she now wrote to John could hardly exert much influence upon him. [10]
It was tedious work struggling up to a position of influence with bloodless hands; but when a man came with the blood of half a dozen men on his soul, his worth was recognized at once and his acquaintance sought. [5]
She was a woman of brains, of great individuality, and his own individuality might influence her. [11]
It was not without its natural influence upon him; but he regarded it most as a comfortable advertisement, and he lamented every day that this never- failing gas well was not near a large population, and he still its owner. [11]
I could not without exposing the fact that I hadn't any influence with you and that was a thing I had no mind to do. [5]
Those who come within its irresistible influence are drawn so close that it seems as if they must become one with her sooner or later. [6]
By his influence with Ismail he had even more power at last than the Chief Eunuch or the valet-de-chambre, before whom the highest officials bowed low. [11]
His easy familiarity with great men was beautiful to see, and when Philip learned what a tremendous underground influence this little ignoramus had, he no longer wondered at the queer appointments and the queerer legislation. [5]
The abbess watched with delight the influence of her words upon the soul of her darling, who, gazing thoughtfully at the floor, now seemed to be pondering over what she had urged. [10]
Miss Turner's influence will, in my opinion, do much to counteract these tendencies. [9]
True a flatboat will float faster than an egg shell and the egg shell might be blown away by the wind, but if under the same influence they would go the same way. [7]
I hope you will exert your influence to prevent this. [7]
The national system will create a reliable and permanent influence in support of the national credit and protect the people against losses in the use of paper money. [7]
The infamous scoundrel, who possessed so much influence over the Emperor, had first sent old Blomberg away; now he, Wolf, was to follow, that no one might stand between the game and the pursuer. [10]
Circumstances--to some of which you kindly allude--induce me especially to expect that if justice and good faith should be practised by the United States, they would encounter no hostile influence on the part of Great Britain. [7]
From her hand, which she lays upon his head, a mysterious influence steals through him; and he sinks into a dreamy tranquility. [5]
Adams's administration, at which point he considers the executive influence as withdrawn from opposition, and added to the support of the power. [7]
The ground upon which he is attacked is thus stated in his own words:-- "People have often pretended to find in my writings the deplorable influence of an extreme Calvinism. [6]
The dread returned when the party approached again the turmoil of the American Fall, and fell again under the influence of the merciless haste of the flood. [4]
It is only when one has withdrawn from the more personal influence of the emotions that one's philosophy may be trusted. [11]
It was November when Howells finally fell under the baleful influence of the machine. [5]
She knew, too, what a powerful influence the bright moonlight sometimes exerted upon her while she slept, and cast another glance at the closely curtained window before she went to her own bed. [10]
Even those who were most under the influence of wine, listened to their king in a kind of unconscious obedience. [10]
We aren't worrying, we know you'll do the right thing, but we feel that it would have a good deal of influence in some other parts of the state if they declared themselves. [9]
About how happy we are; and about friends left behind in the earth, and how to influence them for their good. [5]
It reads this way: "The place of generation must break to give place to the generated; but the influence spreads out beyond the fragments, and is greater thus than in the mass--neither matter nor mind can be destroyed. [11]
Besides, the Ems waters and the excellent advice of the physician to whose care she intrusted herself exerted a beneficial influence upon her ailment. [10]
An unusual influence was working upon the frequenters of the busy tavern. [11]
What we represented was valuable energy misdirected and misplaced, and in a reorganized community he would not abolish us, but transform us: transform, at least, the individuals of our type, who were the builders gone wrong under the influence of an outworn philosophy. [9]
The imaginary man was unprincipled, and had no dignity, but he had such influence over Austen Vane that he had induced him to drive twice within sight of Fairview gate, when Austen Vane had turned round again. [9]
The one which was to determine how much influence you have over your mind--if any. [5]
But if it was threatened by any other influence, would not all men say that the best thing that could be done, if we could not or ought not to destroy it, would be at least to keep it from growing any larger? [7]
His malign influence was therefore not at work at the moment. [11]
So vividly personal was the influence upon him that it seemed impossible that she should not be aware of it--impossible that she could not know there was such a person in the world as Philip Burnett. [4]
The interesting fact was that she was obliged to judge this world according to the standards of literature, morals, and manners that had been implanted in her mainly by the influence of one person. [4]
The obvious inference was that of another man, of another influence in opposition to his own; characteristically, however, he shrank from accepting this, since he was of those who believe what they wish to believe. [9]
Certainly the master-carpenter was not unpopular, and people could not easily resist the grip of his physical influence, while mentally he was far indeed from being deficient. [11]
A certain proximity was necessary for the influence to be felt, as in the case of magnetism and electricity. [6]
What injurious influence was it that was affecting the city's morals? [5]
We knew she was being overrun with applications for places in it, and that these applications were backed by great names and weighty influence, whereas we had nothing of the sort to recommend us. [5]
True, his wife was attached to Kuni, but she had little influence over her vicious husband. [10]
Among our comrades was also the son of Prof. Hengstenberg, who was the head of the pietists and Protestant zealots, whom we had heard mentioned as the darkest of all obscurants, and his influence over the king execrated. [10]
To Eglington it was a relief that there was one human being--he thought there was only one--who read him through and through; and that knowledge was in itself as powerful an influence as was the secret between David and Hylda. [11]
No doubt his want of advancement was partly due to want of influence, which better birth would have given him; but the plain truth is that he had a talent for making himself disagreeable to his associates. [4]
New diseases and vices have in some cases proved highly destructive; and it appears that a new disease often causes much death, until those who are most susceptible to its destructive influence are gradually weeded out (33. [1]
But gentlemen, let us beware how we allow mere human testimony, human ingenuity in argument and human ideas of equity, to influence us at a moment so solemn as this. [5]
Without entering directly upon the consideration of this much-talked-of tendency, I should like to notice the influence upon our present and probable future of the bounty, fertility, and extraordinary opportunities of this still new land. [4]
The feeling grew upon me of some influence which was paralyzing my circulation. [6]
The French, in undertaking to reconstruct the Suez canal, have had much to encounter from the unfriendly commercial policy of the English and their influence over the internal affairs of Egypt, but the unwearied energy and great talent of Monsr. [10]
In such an undertaking he needs every moral support and influence that can possibly be brought to his aid and thrown around him. [7]
She had been under the malicious influence of her father and her father's friend. [11]
He had fallen under the influence of the tempter of his youth, and all in him save the carnal had been blotted out. [9]
But being considerably under the influence of liquor, Reeder did not feel his wounds as he otherwise would, and he got up and went into the street. [5]
So that at twenty-eight she scarcely thought at all of her wonderful influence for good in the little community where her father had left her practically its beneficent landlord, but cared most for the dream and the assurance and the allurement of her beauty. [13]
Aleck saw how true they were, and their influence was electric; her tears ceased to flow, and her great spirit rose to its full stature again. [5]
Mrs. Armour had tried to influence her through Mackenzie, but to no purpose. [11]
What a subtle tribute that to monarchial influence of the country when you place rank above respectability! [5]
There was a tradition that he had a wife somewhere--based upon wild words he had once said when under the influence of bad liquor; but he had roared his accuser the lie when the thing was imputed to him. [11]
He begs me to use influence for his advancement. [11]
She had gone to the Hendersons' to please Jack, in her policy of yielding in order to influence him; but having accepted the hospitality, she could not object to returning it. [4]
It was marvellous to see the influence he exercised over this fierce spirit, and how calm--nay even cheerful--Cambyses became, when the Athenian was near. [10]
Ermolov had been to see Bennigsen a few days previously and had entreated him to use his influence with the commander in chief to induce him to take the offensive. [2]
It is difficult to say exactly how culture can extend its influence into places uncongenial and to people indifferent to it, but I will try and illustrate what I mean by an example or two. [4]
Her influence seemed to pierce far and wide. [11]
There was much to palliate the course which she had pursued in former days, and she had carefully planned the defence by which she hoped to influence his calm but not unjust nature. [10]
Men live up to or live down to their clothes, which have a great moral influence on manner, and even on conduct. [4]
One has only to mark what sort of novels reach the largest sale and are most called for in the circulating libraries, to gauge pretty accurately the public taste, and to measure the influence of this taste upon modern production. [4]
The intention was to make a stand at the Drissa camp, but Paulucci, aiming at becoming commander in chief, unexpectedly employed his energy to influence Alexander, and Pfuel's whole plan was abandoned and the command entrusted to Barclay. [2]
Stephen had learned to love the Judge, and he had never ceased to be grateful to him for a knowledge of that man who had had the most influence upon his life, --Abraham Lincoln. [9]
One gentleman objected to it strongly, as calculated to do moral harm, and regretted that a man having so great an influence over the tone of thought of the day, as Thackeray, should not more carefully weigh his words. [14]
I was able to influence him to his destruction, and now I am powerless. [9]
If she were to influence him it must be wholly through womanly allurement. [13]
He went on to influence her jealousy by praising Paula's charm and loftiness, excusing himself in his own eyes by persuading himself that a lover was justified in inducing his betrothed to save his happiness and his honor. [10]
It was difficult to influence her at all. [6]
It is not to his own age, but to those following, and especially to our own time, that we are to look for the shaping and enormous influence upon human life of the genius of this poet. [4]
Corporeal structure appears to have little influence, except so far as vigour of body leads to vigour of mind. [1]
The king seemed to have forgotten the presence of strangers, and to be wholly absorbed in thought, but by degrees a change came over his face, it cleared, as a landscape is cleared from the morning mists under the influence of the spring sunshine. [10]
I've always used to get up with the lark, till I came under the petrifying influence of your turgid intellect. [5]
I will try to exert a little influence in favor of the bill. [5]
I would attempt to exemplify the influence of individual humors and passions--some of them among the highest, and others certainly the basest that agitate humanity--upon the march of great events, upon general historical results at certain epochs, and upon the destiny of eminent personages. [6]
Hopperson's influence ought to count twenty . [5]
He was determined to control the meeting and to influence its judgment. [11]
Nay, I intended to cast all the weight of my maternal influence between Heinz and the Nuremberg maiden. [10]
I wanted you to care for me so that I could influence you. [13]
Suppose you wanted to break down these strong and well-compacted characters--what influence would you bring to bear upon the ingots? [5]
That much was to be said for him, that he had not sought to influence her to his own advantage. [11]
For a long time the one American counteraction, almost the only, to this English influence was the newspaper, which has always kept alive and diffused a distinctly American spirit--not always lovely or modest, but national. [4]
At any other time the invitation would have pleased me mightily; for, apart from the other two, Hungerford's brusque and original conversation was always a pleasure--so were his cheroots; but now I was under an influence selfish in its source. [11]
During all that time she had seldom been out of his sight, never out of his influence and tutelage. [11]
On at least three important occasions he has quelled our civil commotions by a power and influence which belonged to no other statesman of his age and times. [7]
Only two or three days had elapsed since the funeral, when something happened which was to change the drift of Laura's life somewhat, and influence in a greater or lesser degree the formation of her character. [5]
Maria's gentle and thoughtful nature exerted a beneficial influence upon her, and she cheerfully welcomed Barbara, with her fresh face and simple, careful, helpful ways. [10]
Every deed, every thought, had some influence on the way in which the fulfillment of time would come for each one; and when the hour of death was over, no regrets, repentance, or efforts could then alter the past. [10]
If true, I thought it but another proof of the undermining influence of feminine flattery, which few men, and fewer young men, can stand. [9]
And now, as though his whole future depended on this interview, he brought to bear a life-long skill to influence her. [11]
The influence of this poet is plain to every reader in some of Emerson's poems, and Charles' liking for him was very probably caught from Waldo. [6]
Some people have this influence, which is like an emanation. [5]

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