formative influence

collocation in English

meaningsofformativeandinfluence

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formative
adjective
uk
/ˈfɔː.mə.tɪv/us
/ˈfɔːr.mə.t̬ɪv/
relating to the time when someone or something is starting to develop ...
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influence
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈɪn.flu.əns/us
/ˈɪn.flu.əns/
the power to have an effect on people or things, or a person or thing that is able to ...
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(Definition offormativeandinfluencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In other words, it looks as if the mainformativeinfluencehas been the technical developments enabling the production of draped surfaces.
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It is a homage to a bygone age and to a community which was aformativeinfluenceon the author.
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Although several researchers have examined theformativeinfluenceof social cognitions and attributional biases, most have only considered parents' perceptions and attributions, ignoring the potential impact of children's attributions.
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Adjunct to this, is a sensitivity to theformativeinfluenceon black drama of contextual pressures : not only questions of audience, but political climate and funding availability.
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It provides probably the most important,formativeinfluenceon ideas in this country.
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Religious education as a subject is a good barometer when we consider theformativeinfluenceof teachers on pupils.
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That had an important andformativeinfluenceon our discussions about whether this was a matter which should be reflected in the legislation.
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What is to be the position of young men of between 17 and 19, on which the onlyformativeinfluencehas been a complete acquiescence in idleness?
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Rock has had aformativeinfluenceon popular music, which had the effect of transforming the very concept of what popular music is.
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Her work is recognized as aformativeinfluenceon hundreds of other academic studies, government policy initiatives, and international agreements.
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Rather, the descriptions attributed to events in the past are aformativeinfluenceon her being.
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He published little, but had aformativeinfluenceon subsequent generations of historians.
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According to him, objective reason (nous) as self-moving, becomes theformativeinfluencewhich reduces dead matter to form.
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The onset is perceived as a much lessformativeinfluencethan in the other two archetypes.
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They have released ten full-length albums and are cited as aformativeinfluenceon the skate punk sub-genre.
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American jazz was also aformativeinfluence.
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As a student he moved from the study of medicine to philosophy and then to civil engineering, all of which were formative influences.
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Clearly both those factors are formative influences on business confidence.
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Some say that all must depend on education, and it is true that formative influences and examples may have crucial effects.
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