England still made a pretence of neutrality, but the aristocracy and ruling classes sided with the South, and a large association of their most influential men was established at Manchester to aid the slaveholding oligarchy.
As a member of Congress he was very influential in bringing on the Rebellion.
Having obtained the one hundred influential signatures desired the document was widely distributed to the press.
It contained a number of influential politicians who displayed much skill in their tactics.
Besides the executive officers of the State association, who were in Albany some days of every week, much help was secured by the occasional visits of prominent women and the numerous letters of influential people from all parts of the State.
Neither in their homes nor in public places have they lost one womanly quality; but their minds have broadened and they have become more influential in the community in which they live.
She is chairman of the board and has been influentialin many progressive measures.
To this end a number of influential women visited Sacramento.
Scott, the most influential newspaper in the State.
In 1891 a number of influential women decided to form a corporation, with a stock company, for the purpose of building a club house and equipping the same to rent as a business of profit.
In this First Ward of Chicago, said to be the most influential and richest ward in the world, are nearly two miles of indecent resorts.
We are influential and actuated by the same religious impulses.
In the city of London the most influential clergymen are not hesitating to take the lead in reaching the submerged portions of the population.
Master of England, and the most influential of European diplomatists, he saw men preferred to him who were his inferiors.
Posterity has erred in permitting them to sink into oblivion; for they were two of the most influential and energetic men that ever flourished in England.
If they could not reach Tyndale, had they not in London the patron of his work, Monmouth, the most influential of the merchants, and a follower of the true faith?
Such are the theories now professed not only by priests but by influential laymen.
Although one of the most influentialmen in the British church, he was somewhat timid and hesitating; he would yield to a certain point for the love of peace; but would never flinch from his duty.
An officer who holds one of the highest and certainly the most influential positions in the kingdom has charge of the building, and presides over the sacred rites which are conducted in them.
This is when a rich and influential man marries a girl against her desires, but through the urgings of her parents.
If the one taking the head desires continued peace, some of its most influential men hasten to the other pueblo to talk the matter over.
As a natural result, the confraternity came to be much esteemed and valued, and many sought the intercession of influential persons in order to be admitted to its membership.
He was arousing the same spirit in others, as he was an influential man, respected by those of the village.
The Balkan Peninsula is admitted to be the most influential camp of Pan-Germanism for the colony desired by the Germanic world, from which it is but a step to Central Asia.
So they spoke right and left to the few influential families who were at Redwater of the two young painters, who by mere luck had come with them in the waggon, had put up at the "Rod and Fly," and were waiting for commissions.
First, his young love and the cream of his happiness; and now his paternal acres, and his position among the independent, influential gentlemen of his native county.
Then indeed all the evil passions spring up, and it becomes a case of who is the most influential person on the board.
Platonov, himself a Bolshevik and one of the most influential of the leaders of the railway men’s unions.
There were loud protests on the part of influential Bolsheviki, who demanded that the Chresvychaikas be curbed and restrained and that the power to inflict the death penalty be taken from them.
Backed by influential British supporters, Berkenheim and his friends gave guaranties that not a single pound of such supplies would reach the Red Army.
In this respect they differ in a great measure from their neighbours in Bonny and Opobo, where, oftener than otherwise, the succession falls to the most influential man in the House, slave or free-born.
Only it is no more worship, properly so called, than our own deference to our living, elderly, and influential relations.
Their choice as a rule fell upon the most influential chief of the district, their last choice being Nana, the son of the late chief Alumah, the most powerful and richest chief that had ever been known amongst the Jakri men.
It might then be found that the majority was with the Babis, and this fear is a fact which, irrespective of other arguments, enables the influential and liberal-minded Moullas to control their headstrong and over-zealous brethren.
These come from all quarters of the empire, and are headed and officered by members of the most influential families, so that they may be regarded as hostages for the loyalty and fidelity of the chiefs.
He had done it hundreds of times before in the case of men infinitely more influential than myself.
Abraham Lincoln's boyhood was one long struggle with poverty, with little education and no influential friends.
The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use.
But as men thought it out, as Professor Wells tells us, they came to see that it was not France that was beaten, but only Louis Napoleon and a lot of nobles, influential only because they bore titles or were favorites.
The bells chimed at intervals, while the worshippers, as they fell upon their knees, repeated again and again the symbol of the cross on forehead and breast.
We began to think you had given us up altogether for 'a bad lot,' as my slang-loving Dick would say.
If the dawn of her marriage morning was marred by such fore-bodings, what were its noontide and evening likely to prove?
A person called Adele Lamien had been arrested in Petersburg; he should immediately demand further confirmation of the matter; in the meantime he left the custody of Miss Hildreth in the hands of the Bench.
Whether a woman might occupy an influential place in the management of Chinese public affairs has depended somewhat upon the character of the ruling dynasty.
And yet, no less influential a name than that of Solomon might have been quoted as giving sanction to this method of assuring national peace.
It was probably in the days of the Mogul dynasty that emerged the mostinfluential female characters in historic times.
To Palos again goes the messenger, to the rich andinfluential citizen, Alonzo Pinzon, and tells him he is wanted at La Pabida.
While the nobles and influential persons were thus preparing to co-operate, in case of a collision with the Spanish government, a sudden and disastrous movement occurred among the lower classes.
The leaders of the guilds gradually became the heads of notable burgher families who became influentialand wealthy.
Laporte was not probably the mostinfluential of the three, for Bonaparte did not address his remonstrance to him.
His constantly-increasing influence with her had already brought him into contact with the most influential persons of that epoch.
The same opinion was also entertained by a great part of the most influential Sections of Paris, both as to the possession of property and talent.
He is the chief of the Sumaydah and the Mahamid, two influential sub-families of the Hamidah, the principal family of the Beni-Harb tribe of Badawin.
Whereupon some person, renderedinfluential by wealth or religious reputation, publicly complains that the Christians are all in all, and that in these evil days Al-Islam is going to destruction.
FN#40] There are at present about eighteen influential Shaykhs at Cairo, too fanatic to listen to reason.
From his friends at Komorn he had received letters of recommendation to the most influential officials.
