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Banned from lobbying Congress for a year, he soon discovered there were places outside Washington needing influen
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Even when dedicating the animal to some influen - tial person or to Lucha, a gesture always applauded by the fans who liked the idea of a matador's being in love with a singer, he seemed to be watching not the honouree but the all-important bull.
Mexico Michener, James 1992
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Marcel Duchamp, the most influen - tial member of the movement, was an equally persua - sive advocate and practitioner of chance effects.
CHANCE IMAGES H. W. JANSON 1968
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After Marx's death Engels became less reticent; he helped all he could to combat the efforts of various prominent Social Democrats, among them the influen - tial South German George von Vollmar, to opt for a more flexible and theoretically less rigorous program.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas J. P. NETTL 1968
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In the philosophy of history, and in historical think - ing generally, Plato's approach has proved less influen - tial, although his Republic has been the model for the construction of many utopias and has thus indirectly influenced political thought and action.
NECESSITY STEPHAN K 1968
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Page 143, Volume 1 edge, and age — which made certain personalities espe - cially imposing and their activities especially influen - tial upon other people.
AUTHORITY LEONARD KRIEGER 1968
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Yet the most influen - tial pejorative use of the Gothic idea is due to the reflections on architecture of the art historian Giorgio
CONCEPT OF GOTHIC WAYNE DYNES 1968
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Neo-Platonists, and his successors, is so original and distinctive and has been so deeply and widely influen - tial, that it deserves separate treatment and special attention.
NEO-PLATONISM A. HILARY ARMSTRONG 1968
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The benefits received from a faithful instructor and guide of our youth, are not only transmitted to our children, but through our whole lives exert a diffusive influen ce throughout the sphere in which we move.
Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1860
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As the August deadline for drawing down U. S forces to 50,000 troops gets closer -- and even those troops are scheduled to leave by the end of 2011 -- the influence of the U.ited States is declining sharply, and the overt and covert influen […]
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