Influenced by the German tradition, Boas argued that the world was full of distinct cultures, rather than societies whose evolution could be measured by how much or how little " civilization " they had.

Influenced by psychoanalytic psychologists including Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, these authors sought to understand the way that individual personalities were shaped by the wider cultural and social forces in which they grew up.

Influenced by his " favorite living hero in public life ", the British liberal, John Bright, Carnegie started his efforts in pursuit of world peace at a young age.

Influenced by Keynes, economics texts in the immediate post-war period put a significant emphasis on balance in trade.

Influenced by Buddhist teachings, the document focuses more on social morality than institutions of government per se and remains a notable early attempt at a government constitution.

Influenced by the sounds and style of no wave and noise rock bands, Love convinced Sonic Youth bassist Kim Gordon to produce Hole's first studio album.

Influenced perhaps by his experience as a state governor, Hughes authored a series of decisions that upheld state laws that affected — and, it might be argued, infringed on — congressional authority over interstate commerce.

Influenced like Pound by German social and legal thinkers, Ely in 1903 had ascribed " the coercion of economic forces " in American society " to the unequal strength of those who make a contract.

Influenced by the Italian feature film Cabiria ( 1914 ), Griffith was convinced that feature films were commercially viable.

Influenced by the doctrine of " natural right ", the rights of man are held to be universal: valid at all times and in every place, pertaining to human nature itself.

Influenced by the views of Brentano's pupil Alexius Meinong, and by Edmund Husserl, Germanophone and Francophone philosophy took a different direction regarding the question of existence.

Influenced partly by the fact that Gregory was the son of his father's enemy, he ordered Gregory imprisoned for twelve ( some sources indicate fourteen ) years in a pit on the Ararat Plain under the present day church of Khor Virap located near the historical city Artashat in Armenia.

Influenced by his dreams, he wrote his first novel, A Goddess Arrives, over the next few years.

Influenced by Jones's psychoanalytic approach, several productions have portrayed the " closet scene ", where Hamlet confronts his mother in her private quarters, in a sexual light.

Influenced by the doctrine of natural rights, these rights were deemed universal and valid in all times and places, pertaining to human nature itself.

Influenced by the crossover success of Ray Charles, Brown backed away from his musical roots and incorporated productions of pop standards, finding success with his first Top 20 single, " Prisoner of Love ".

Influenced by the words of the prophet Ahijah (), he began to form conspiracies with the view of becoming king of the ten tribes ; but these were discovered, and he fled to Egypt, where he remained under the protection of pharaoh Shishak until the death of Solomon.

* René Bosch, Labyrinth of Digressions: Tristram Shandy as Perceived and Influenced by Sterne's Early Imitators ( Amsterdam, 2007 )

Influenced by the constructivist theories of Piaget, Vygotsky and Bruner, Seymour Papert developed his constructionist theory ( Sefton-Green 2004 ).

Influenced by Lenin, the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party stated that the development of the socialist workers ’ culture should not be ‘ hamstrung from above ’, and opposed the Proletkult ( 1917 – 25 ) organisational control of the national culture.

Influenced by Henry Salt's writing, he joined the Vegetarian Society, was elected to its executive committee, and started a local Bayswater chapter.

Influenced by the anthropologist Sir James George Frazer's The Golden Bough, several prominent writers and artists were involved in these organizations, including William Butler Yeats, Maud Gonne, Arthur Edward Waite, and Aleister Crowley.

McClellan continued his efforts against organized crime, supplying the political influence for the anti-organized crime laws ( Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, RICO ) which were conceived by G. Robert Blakey until 1973 when he switched to investigating political subversion.

Later that year, Giuliani began seriously considering an indictment of Drexel under the powerful Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, which he had previously used against organized crime.

Influenced by American orchestras in vogue since the Second World War and the cultural impact of US music post-war, samba began to use trombones, trumpets, choros, flutes, and clarinets.

Influenced by their prophetic interpretations of the 1811 comet and earthquake, the Upper Towns of the Muscogee, supported by the Shawnee leader Tecumseh, began to resist European-American encroachment.

Influenced by the French Impressionist composer Claude Debussy, he began to use colorful, unusual combinations of instruments in his orchestration.

Influenced by many artists he showed an early gift for art ; consequently, he began to study under Francisco de Herrera, a vigorous painter who disregarded the Italian influence of the early Seville school.

Influenced strongly by Karl Barth and other dialectical theologians of Europe, he began to emphasize the Bible as a human record of divine self-revelation ; it offered for Niebuhr a critical but redemptive reorientation of the understanding of man's nature and destiny.

Influenced by the burgeoning Reform movement in England, he also began calling for a review of representation in Upper Canada.

Influenced by the free jazz he was hearing coming out of the United States by players like Ornette Coleman and Albert Ayler, his style began to move away from fairly traditional be-bop to something more experimental.

Influenced by Lincoln Steffens, his career began when he was nineteen years old and was hired at the Pittsburgh Leader.

Influenced by the American and French revolutions, its members began by 1798 to seek independence for Ireland.

Influenced by the then popular doo-wop sound as well as the emerging soul music scene, James began singing on street corners with neighborhood friends.

Influenced by 1970s punk rock and new wave bands such as The Ramones and Buzzcocks while ignoring the then-rising, early J-pop movement, the trio began crafting energetic rock songs rooted in rough instrumentation and do-it-yourself ethos.

Influenced by radical theorists like Frantz Fanon, racial justice activists in the U. S. began to use the term people of color in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Influenced by the quilts that his mother, Eula, made, he began experimenting with a quilted doll.

Influenced by his study of art history and readings in European art magazines, Lassaw began to make sculpture in the late 1920s.

Influenced by his earlier readings of Boscovich, he began to develop a physics of the Will to Power.

Influenced by British and German examples, American writers began to produce their own ghost stories.

Influenced by the Gordon Bennett Cup in auto racing, Jules Goux began racing cars in his early twenties.

Influenced by some of the images in Hugo van Wadenoyen's seminal 1947 Wayside Snapshots book-a book which marked the start of the decisive British break with Pictorialism-Moore began to see fresh possibilities in the composition & framing of everyday English landscapes.

Influenced by William Sturgeon and Michael Faraday, Callan began work on the idea of the induction coil in 1834.

Influenced by his grandfather, he began medical studies in Chernivtsi and completed such studies in Vienna in December 1932.

Influenced by the work of Norman McLaren, he began producing installation art that combined pre-cinema animation techniques ( the phenakistoscope and the zoetrope ) with modern methods of image capture and creation ( photocopiers, video cameras and computer graphics ) and of stroboscopic lighting ( video monitors, video projectors and LEDs ).

Influenced by the photographs of Edward Weston and Walker Evans, Nixon began working with large-format cameras.