What's the difference between influential and princeling?
Influential
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The influential Belgian scientist Quetelet demonstrated a remarkable scotoma towards the phenomenon.
(2) I care far more that women are absolutely essential to political life, influential at every level, and are leading dynamic conversations in the public sphere around social and cultural change.
(3) Phosphate was the most influential milk salts component that protected the cells and promoted repair of injury.
(4) McCain, a former Republican presidential candidate with an influential voice on US foreign affairs, is seen by the Obama administration as a potentially important intermediary in its intensive push to persuade Congress to swing behind the plan for airstrikes .
(5) Fry, who has more than six million followers on Twitter, is an influential voice in the campaign to boycott the Sochi Games, comparing the situation to the decision to hold the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany.
(6) Alcohol and drugs are influential in providing a feeling of hopelessness by their toxic effects, by disruption of interpersonal relationships and social supports, and, possibly, by manipulating neurotransmitters responsible for mood and judgment.
(7) Even more influentially, it was a mostly black community.
(8) One of the Conservative party's most influential voices on defence has conceded that Britain can no longer be regarded as a "division-one military power", and raised questions over the sense of replacing the Trident nuclear fleet with a new generation of missile-launching submarines.
(9) He moved on to Tunis and Paris, and became editor-in-chief of the influential literary review Al-Karmel.
(10) An amendment from George Eustice, a new but influential MP who used to work for Cameron, calls on the coalition to publish a white paper in the next two years setting out which powers ministers would repatriate from Brussels.
(11) In the process, PR firms have grown even more influential in shaping the debate around climate policy, said James Hoggan, who ran his own public relations firm in Vancouver and founded DeSmogBlog , a blog that describes itself as “clearing the PR pollution that clouds climate science”.
(12) This approach to circumscription is inspired by the influential work of John McCarthy at Stanford University.
(13) Survey data were collected from a sample of 298 occupational therapy department directors on (a) department demographics; (b) availability of micro- or macrocomputers; (c) types of hardware, software, and peripheral devices used; (d) major purposes and functions for computers; and (e) major factors regarding choice of computers and equipment or factors most influential in the nonuse of computers.
(14) Children are taught to use condoms there,” Pokrovsky said, indicating that was hardly imaginable in modern Russia where the Orthodox church is growing increasingly influential.
(15) 2 groups who were particularly influential were the doctors and the academic eugenists.
(16) Multiple regression of this preventive orientation index on selected independent variables showed that, for the entire sample, variables representing involvement in academic and institutional dentistry, exposure to education through journals and courses, a predeliction for innovation, and the presence of a hygienist in the office, were most influential in creating a model that successfully predicted reported preventive behavior.
(17) But the remarks by Gross, whose pronouncements on bond markets are regarded as highly influential, added to the sense that the economy remained in a dangerously parlous state.
(18) Professor Lord Stern of the London School of Economics, the author of the influential Stern Report into the economics of climate change for the Treasury in 2006, warned that if the pattern continued, the results would be dire.
(19) In the 1970s, Marco Panella’s Radical party was influential in marshalling opposition to the “partitocracy” dominated by the then Christian Democrats and in championing civil rights on issues such as divorce and abortion.
(20) This study suggests that for children whole-day heart rate monitoring is an objective, nonobtrusive method for measuring physical activity; and maturation, but not gender, is an influential mediating factor for activity.
Princeling
Definition:
(n.) A petty prince; a young prince.
Example Sentences:
(1) The wealthiest people in the world – especially the oil-rich princelings of the Middle East – want to live in the capital as it is secure, large enough to permit anonymity, culturally diverse, and conveniently situated for global business.
(2) Zhang Dejiang Bo's replacement is another "princeling", whose father was a general.
(3) Some think the red culture drive makes the rise of "princelings" such as Bo – the children of revolutionary leaders – look less like inherited opportunity and more like the continuation of a glorious tradition.
(4) In advance of Merkel's visit, the British media stressed the plethora of Anglo-German anniversaries coming up this year: 100 years since the start of the first world war, 200 years since the British and Prussians united to defeat Napoleon, and 300 years since a German princeling became King George I.
(5) So his opponents are quick to dub him a Labour princeling, a "quangocrat" who has been too quick to exploit the looming reorganisation of five local NHS hospitals.
(6) Chinese media is not real media, it’s just part of the propaganda apparatus – and its goal is to push this cult of personality.” Xi is a princeling, as the powerful offspring of China’s revolutionary founders are known, but on Wednesday he became a king.
(7) We know that he has enjoyed the support of the "Shanghai faction", which used to run China and is well-connected with fellow princelings and younger generals in the People's Liberation Army.
(8) Even the Labour party is now parachuting its grandees’ exclusively-educated princelings into its safe seats.
(9) Now at Christmas, it demands the kind of baubles you would expect of an Arab princeling or a banana republic.
(10) An investigation by the US authorities into hiring practices in Asia, similar to the one disclosed by HSBC over the hiring of individuals with links to government officials, known as “princelings” .
(11) Indeed, Riyadh's unelected princelings strongly objected to Mubarak's treatment, viewing it as a dangerous precedent, and now appear doubly determined to prevent Saleh being disposed of in the same manner.
(12) Xi, the "princeling" son of Communist party veteran Xi Zhongxun , has a reputation as a clean politician.
(13) I ask her what she has been most proud of during the infancy of her editorship, and she cites the investigative reporting that has been done on global issues such as the rise of "princeling" families in China , Apple's labour practices and the textile business of Bangladesh .
(14) Vice-premier Zhang Dejiang, who, like Bo is a "princeling" – the son of a key party figure – will replace Bo and keep his current portfolio.
(15) And like many of his peers, he is a "princeling" – someone who has experienced both privilege and prejudice as the child of a powerful Communist party figure.
(16) One member of the publishing industry, who requested anonymity for fear of reprisals, said: “The people behind Sage Communications have long been hated by the princelings, absolutely hated, because their books are so sensationalistic.
(17) Observers were at the time perplexed by Jiang's lavish praise for the princeling who had displaced him.
(18) Although a "princeling" son of a communist veteran, he was a risk-taker in a profoundly cautious system.
(19) Next year marks three centuries since the Hanoverian succession, the moment in 1714 when the crown of England, Scotland and Wales passed to a minor German princeling, George elector of Hanover.
(20) But political commentator Li Datong suggests this "double background" has proved genuinely formative for princelings such as Xi and might even lead them to bolder policy-making.