The DUP leader expressed his optimism about the next few weeks, saying the prospect of a hung parliament gives Northern Irish voters crucial influence on polling day. (politics.co.uk)
[3] This became a gradually more influential factor in Jaki's writings; one which made his own mind focus more clearly on the subtle but crucial influence of Christian philosophy upon the development of science and also on the fortunes of natural theology, in particular, the influence of a realist epistemology. (faith.org.uk)
The self is shaped not only by the crucial influences that come to bear on it, but also by the emerging freedom which enables the self as subject to tower above itself and its world to survey both. (religion-online.org)