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.

Influenced by Roman Dmowski's radical nationalist and social-Darwinist ideas, National Democrats turned against other nationalities within the Polish lands, most notably the Jews ; anti-Semitism became a key element of ND ideology.

" This quote appears in an extended form just before the preface of Stevenson's Ethics and Language .</ ref > Influenced by the growth of analytic philosophy and logical positivism in the 20th century, the theory was stated vividly by A. J. Ayer in his 1936 book Language, Truth and Logic, but its development owes more to C. L. Stevenson.

Influenced by the French revolutionaries in the 1790s, the door was opened for ideas of positivism.

Influenced by Sellars's famous diagnosis of the " myth of the given " in traditional empiricism, in which Sellars argued that the blankly causal impingement of the external world on judgement failed to supply justification, as only something with a belief-like conceptual structure could engage with rational justification, McDowell tries to explain how one can accept that we are passive in our perceptual experience of the world while active in how we conceptualise it.

Influenced by the ideas of William Morris, Ovington joined the Republican Party in 1905, where she met people including Daniel De Leon, Asa Philip Randolph, Floyd Dell, Max Eastman and Jack London, who argued that racial problems were as much a matter of class as of race.

Influenced by the political upheaval of the inter-war period Childe then argued that revolutions had wrought major changes in past societies.

Influenced for many years by this provincial philosophy, Pisemsky to a large extent made it his own, the biographer argued.

Influenced by American revivalistic teachings, Livingstone's reading of the missionary Karl Gützlaff's " Appeal to the Churches of Britain and America on behalf of China " enabled him to persuade his father that medical study could advance religious ends.

Influenced by Jomini's principles of strategy, he saw that in the coming wars, where economic strategy could be as important as military strategy, control of the sea granted the power to control the trade and resources needed to wage war.

Facing a massive asset seizure that would have left both him and beloved wife destitute and a case he could not possibly beat, Johnny pleaded guilty to 47 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO ) predicates for a reduced sentence of 15 years and a fine of 4. 2 million dollars — effectively ending his position as boss ( but still leaving Ginny enough money to live comfortably ).

The Court concluded that pro-life demonstrators were not racketeers engaged in extortion and that the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO )— a federal statute targeting drug dealers and organized crime — could not be used against them.

Influenced by packet switched networks and 1964, Hewitt proposed the development of a new model of concurrent computation in which communications would not have any required fields at all: they could be empty.

Influenced by this, Kant held that while the nature of the ' noumenal ' world was indeed unknowable, we could aspire to knowledge of the ' phenomenal ' world.

Influenced by a quote from 1960's folk singer Phil Ochs, according to lead singer Lyxzén, the band wanted to achieve an ideal blend of music and politics that was, " a cross between Elvis Presley and Che Guevara.

Influenced by Herder, Gode propounded a Romantic, anti-positivist view of language: languages are an aspect of the culture of a people, not an instrument to achieve a goal ; an ideology cannot be attached to a language, except artificially.

Influenced by theories of social construction, White argues that culture is " reconstituted " through language.

Influenced by Egon Bahr, who proposed " change through rapprochement " in a 1963 speech, the policies were implemented beginning with Willy Brandt, fourth Chancellor of the FRG from 1969 to 1974.

Influenced by the Marxist view of history, Childe used the work to argue that the usual distinction between ( pre-literate ) prehistory and ( literate ) history was a false dichotomy and that human society has progressed through a series of technological, economic and social revolutions.

Influenced primarily through the re-emergence of the London Psychogeographical Association and the foundation of The Workshop for Non-Linear Architecture, these groups have assisted in the development of a contemporary psychogeography.

Influenced by the writings of the 19th century occultist and sex magic practitioner, Paschal Beverly Randolph, he kept several of Randolph's books in print ( sometimes in heavily edited form ) through the middle of the 20th century,

Influenced by the writings of Shan-tao, Hōnen devoted himself solely to Amitābha ( Amida ) Buddha, as expressed through the nembutsu.

Influenced both by his father and the continual procession through the Harper household of his dad's famous friends ; Keith Moon, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and David Gilmour amongst others, but the author still admits that " Harper though must be applauded for trying be a politically inclined sort of modern troubadour ".