The city has proven extremely influential in the country's recent history.

The former proved much more influential on female fan styles.

This album proved very influential on many levels to the dominant popular music scene in America for much of the 1970s.

Both the book and the article proved influential in the adoption of the new methods.

This episode has proved very influential on later television writers.

Though he and his wife co-authored several additional books at the end of the century, these two have proved most influential.

This book has proven highly influential, both in the years that would immediately follow and today.

Whether or not the hotel should have been there, it proved influential.

This problem will prove more influential in the future if it is not solved.

But here are a few of 1999's most provocative styles that may just prove influential.