influential
/ˌɪnfluˈɛnʃəl/ adjective B2- Having or exerting influence. · John Lennon was a very influential person in music, as well as in politics, fashion and general culture.· Jane was very influential in getting the motion passed.
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He had learned that Dantès had been taken to prison, and he had gone to all his friends, and the influential persons of the city; but the report was already in circulation that Dantès was arrested as a Bonapartist agent; and as the most sanguine looked upon any attempt of Napoleon to remount the throne as impossible, he met with nothing but refusal, and had returned home in despair, declaring that the matter was serious and that nothing more could be done.
Owing to this change, the worthy shipowner became at that moment—we will not say all powerful, because Morrel was a prudent and rather a timid man, so much so, that many of the most zealous partisans of Bonaparte accused him of “moderation”—but sufficiently influential to make a demand in favor of Dantès.
Sterling, had spent three exhausting months drafting this monumental maritime chart for an influential merchant consortium.
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