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Meanings of formative influence in English

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Usage of formative influence in English
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And so, you know, it was a very sort of formative influence.
The new yorker
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School is only one necessary strand in an enormous body of formative influence.
Mankind in the Making
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Each such group exercises a formative influence on the active dispositions of its members.
Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Ed...
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Later the Egyptian and Cycladic sculpture in the British Museum was another formative influence.
The Guardian
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John Telfer's friendship was a formative influence upon Sam McPherson.
Windy McPherson's Son
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He counts you as the great formative influence of his life, and adores you accordingly.
The Brentons
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Its outstanding collection has proved to be a formative influence on many artists and writers.
The Irish Times
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That was definitely a formative influence.
The Guardian
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It also led to a lengthy involvement with the Irish Wheelchair Association on which he had a formative influence.
The Irish Times
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Ross talks to Zac Arnold about the formative influence of WOMADelaide and his insatiable thirst to keep making music.
Radio NZ
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This was the " formative influence" of the school,-thequality that the Institute prided itself on above all else.
One Woman's Life
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According to him, objective reason (nous) as self-moving, becomes the formative influence which reduces dead matter to form.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
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But the recognition of the sovereign priesthood of the ruler, of the formative influence which he exercised over the worship, is just.
Prolegomena to the History of Israel
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Nor can it be denied that the custom which demands more self-control in women must exercise a formative influence on their natures.
Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Stu...
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But the man who was destined to have a really formative influence over him was James Woodrow, of the department of science.
Sidney Lanier
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The institution that had the greatest formative influence on me was my secondary school, which I attended locally in Tarbert, Co Kerry.
The Irish Times
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