He can safely be called the first influence in Sukhbir's life which remained throughout.

As a symptom of this, in 2006, Iran's president promised to eradicate all universities from what he called "the liberal and secular influence".

There is also what Mr. Montoya called "the influence of Mayan architecture, a bit of high tech and lots of romance."

During his Washington visit, Mr. Aliyev made a point of condemning what he called the outsized influence of the Armenian lobby.

Nor should one discount what the critic Greil Marcus calls the "mysterian" influence of history.

Rodriguez called Piniella "the biggest influence in my baseball career" because Piniella trusted and tested him.

On the same wall is a color portrait he made of his grandmother, whom he calls "the biggest influence in my life."

Soga's translation and adaptation of Pilgrim's Progress has been called "the most important literary influence in 19th century South Africa after the Bible."

But he was never to be a jazzing-the-classics squarehead; he once called the influence of European classical music "only one of the means to an end."

It is made up of two coexisting beliefs: their own syncretic faith called Daba and the influence of Tibetan Buddhism.