formative influence

In the following years socialism had a major formative influence on her.

They were possibly the single most formative influence of my childhood.

These formative influences continue to shape the world he designs.

International politics had come to be a formative influence on the thinking of the British labour movement.

Rather, the descriptions attributed to events in the past are a formative influence on her being.

Armstrong's home state, Ohio, had an immense formative influence on him.

Whistler soon lost interest in teaching art and the school shut down, but he was a formative influence.

The sketches also shed light on some of the artist's formative influences.

Thus life at sea was a formative influence and much of his early writing is about seamen.

Campbell had a strong formative influence on Asimov and eventually became a personal friend.

He published little, but had a formative influence on subsequent generations of historians.

Both books sold well and are now seen as formative influences in the growth of Scottish tourism.

He is considered by many to be a formative influence behind the Creation Care movement.

The formative influence in his early years was the Anglican Church.

"For some of the younger musicians, these old records are their formative influences.

It was a major lexicographical work, which had a great formative influence on the Czech language.

In later years Howard recalled the personal formative influence of country music:

The onset is perceived as a much less formative influence than in the other two archetypes.

Longo, in particular, was a formative influence on her career.

She insists on keeping the focus on her work and formative influences.

These scenes would have depicted a formative influence on Haskins' game of basketball.

Wilson has exercised a formative influence on the sociology of religion in Britain.

His work became a formative influence on the developing fuji style.

Ken Tyler has had a formative influence on the art and science of printmaking for close to five decades.

As the project took shape in the Reagan Administration's early years, officials said, another formative influence changed the project's direction.