The chief influence was her awakening sense of the need of money.

She was the source of many of his songs and the chief influence on his singing style.

Eric 'Barney' Barnes was the chief leftist influence on the band.

Then again, it is possible that the artist's chief influence is his own personality.

Its chief early influences came from English and Irish settlers of colonial America.

Helena-West Helena's chief economic influence continues to be agriculture, specifically cotton cultivation.

The Cumberland landscape would always remain her chief influence, inspiration and theme.

His chief influence was that of a preacher and a spiritual adviser.

And of course I deplore what's happening to our chief influence in the world, our culture.

Alcuin of York, who ran the palace school and scriptorium at Aachen, was probably a chief influence in this.