Sentences with phrase «entirely by outside influence»

Perfection, on the other hand, is oftentimes driven entirely by outside influence, whether we realize it or not.

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In the years when fresh invasions were sweeping new waves of pagans in destructive raids into nominally Christian areas and Arabs were bringing about half of what had been Christendom under the sway of the Crescent, Christianity was recouping some of its losses by conversions in that very Mediterranean Basin and on the borders of what had been the Roman Empire among peoples which until then had been largely on entirely outside its influence.