Sentences with phrase «exert powerful influence»

To the extent that smoking in movies is linked to something the adolescent wants to be, sexy, tough, or any number of other characteristics, movie smoking could exert a powerful influence.

As such, they exert a powerful influence on most insurers» pricing models.

His engagement with this theme raises questions about our conception of high and low culture, where the centrality of archetypes continues to exert a powerful influence on the collective imagination.

Artists as curators exert a powerful influence on posterity, re-shaping the context in which artwork is seen and understood.

Defying easy categorisation, Chamberlain continues to exert a powerful influence on artists working today.

Since these ratings exert a powerful influence over fund flows, their usefulness is obviously of keen interest to investors.

Because the media exert a powerful influence on young people, they and businesses that finance them should accept greater responsibility for promoting positive values and attitudes.

The study of «psychoneuroimmunology» has shown us that the molecules and biochemicals produced by specific thoughts and thought patterns exert a powerful influence over your physical bodily health as well, in particular the immune system.

Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Shintoism and numerous smaller religions had their beginning on Asian soil and still exert a powerful influence on society To be Christian artist in such a setting means coming to terms with the art forms and images of other religions.

Tell me which Greek God or Goddess has changed the landscape of human history since birth and continues to exert powerful influence on cultures around the world to this day as Jesus has.

«Scientific culture thus exerts a powerful influence on young and impressionable minds, and gradually they drift away from the Church.

Because of its size and the extent of its coffee, cocoa and food trading, Nestlé exerts a powerful influence on governments.

Some bacteria exerted a powerful influence, while others had far more subtle effects.

Culture is built on trusting relationships, the relationships people have with each other in the workplace exerts a powerful influence on the behavior of the working group.

London: The Biography (2000) is a history of the city that has exerted a powerful influence on his writing and was awarded the South Bank Show Annual Award for Literature.

Oldenburg's environments sometimes doubled as the sites of Happenings, irreverent non-narrative theater pieces that defined the era's ad - hoc approach to art - making and exerted a powerful influence on later performance art.

During the brief but highly productive decade that he worked as an artist — and even more so since his untimely death — Gordon Matta - Clark (1943 — 1978) exerted a powerful influence on artists and architects and has emerged as a key figure of the generation that came after minimalism.

He is best known for his perfectly composed photographs that explore gender, race, and sexuality, which became hallmarks of the period and exerted a powerful influence on his contemporaries.

Although the Dallas Nine ceased to operate as a group after its members scattered to pursue careers throughout the state and beyond, artists from that circle continued to do meaningful work and exerted a powerful influence over a new generation of artists through their positions as teachers and museum administrators.

During the brief but highly productive ten years that he worked as an artist, and even more so since his death, Gordon Matta - Clark (1943 — 1978) has exerted a powerful influence on artists and architects who know his work.

As scientists looked more deeply into how carbon moved in and out of the atmosphere, they discovered many ways that other organisms could also exert powerful influences.

You do not need a calculator to conclude that organisms have, by their very existence, exerted a powerful influence over the global climate.

It may seem remote from our everyday lives, but the Arctic exerts a powerful influence on the rest of the planet.

The Delaware Court of Chancery exerts a powerful influence on United States business because many large companies are incorporated in Delaware and litigate cases there.

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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will tell United States congressional leaders and policymakers this week that commerce and trade are as powerful as «ships and planes» when it comes to exerting influence in the Asia - Pacific, as he seeks to breathe life into the Trans - Pacific Partnership.

What he does not leave in doubt in this morally serious work is the powerful influence that environment can exert upon young men and women at crucial formative stages in their journey through life.

The ability of a relatively few already powerful people or organizations to exert still further pervasive influence introduces the possibility of tyranny and misuse of power in some respects even more devastating than that accomplished by physical compulsion.

Television exerts a powerful cultural influence, not only by sending almost instant visual news all over the globe but also by fostering cultural change.

During my experience as a hospital chaplain I was impressed by the powerful influence which a person's attitudes and feelings exert on his recovery from illness and surgery.

But while it is true that behaviors like neglect and abuse can exert a disturbingly powerful influence on children, it is also true that the effect of some detrimental parental behaviors can be diminished or even reversed if those behaviors change.

Prosecutors, though, say evidence will show that Percoco was still a powerful force within the governor's office during that period and that he exerted that influence to help those paying him by getting the Empire State Development agency to reverse a decision regarding use of union labor that greatly benefited the Syracuse developer.

Fowler says that even if social norms are exerting a minority of influence on weight status, they could still play a powerful role in curbing the rise in obesity.

Although mitochondria are certainly not the sole cause of aging, the findings suggest that they exert a surprisingly powerful influence.

Instead, opportunities people wished they would have taken, but didn't, exert a far more powerful influence on people in the long term, sometimes burdening them for years.

Their personal cold war will run from 1955 to 1962, exerting immense influence on the lives of America's most powerful criminals and their loved ones, including

Many genetic factors, powerful as they may be in psychological development, exert their influence only through the good offices of the family.

Part of the fascination of this exhibition lies in the account it gives us of the powerful influence that each of these painters exerted on the development of the other.»

I have a longstanding interest in the way artists dress, from Picasso to Hockney, Georgia O'Keeffe to Robert Rauschenberg, and I think their wardrobes exert as powerful an influence on mainstream fashion as those of any rock or Hollywood stars.

Octavio Medellín developed a powerful style inspired in part by the art of the Maya and Toltec Indians, and exerted considerable influence over young artists through his teaching posts at the Witte Museum, North Texas State Teachers College, Southern Methodist University, and the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts.

Latham has exerted a powerful and lasting influence, not only on his peers but on generations of younger artists.

But he says in the Arctic, it's the local factors that exert a more powerful influence on the region's weather.

Clouds especially are a challenge to incorporate into climate models, and different assumptions — all of which reasonable — can exert an uncomfortably powerful influence over the strength of amplifying feedbacks.

Despite these added uncertainties, however, it appears quite likely that the present El Niño will exert a powerful (and likely dominant) influence upon California weather this coming winter.

These can be local governments, businesses, and residents, some of whom are rich and powerful, capable of exerting considerable influence on the planning process.

However, two items in the mainstream news this month relating to Vancouver landmarks have got me thinking afresh about the powerful influence brands can and do exert over all of us.

About Blog The world's most powerful person for four years running, Russia's president has exerted his country's influence in nearly every corner of the globe; from the motherland to Syria to the U.S. presidential elections, Putin continues to get what he wants.