And so, you know, it was a very sort of formative influence.

School is only one necessary strand in an enormous body of formative influence.

Each such group exercises a formative influence on the active dispositions of its members.

Later the Egyptian and Cycladic sculpture in the British Museum was another formative influence.

John Telfer's friendship was a formative influence upon Sam McPherson.

He counts you as the great formative influence of his life, and adores you accordingly.

Its outstanding collection has proved to be a formative influence on many artists and writers.

That was definitely a formative influence.

It also led to a lengthy involvement with the Irish Wheelchair Association on which he had a formative influence.

Ross talks to Zac Arnold about the formative influence of WOMADelaide and his insatiable thirst to keep making music.

This was the " formative influence" of the school,-thequality that the Institute prided itself on above all else.

According to him, objective reason (nous) as self-moving, becomes the formative influence which reduces dead matter to form.

But the recognition of the sovereign priesthood of the ruler, of the formative influence which he exercised over the worship, is just.

Nor can it be denied that the custom which demands more self-control in women must exercise a formative influence on their natures.

But the man who was destined to have a really formative influence over him was James Woodrow, of the department of science.

The institution that had the greatest formative influence on me was my secondary school, which I attended locally in Tarbert, Co Kerry.