The Council of Appointment had its origins in the fear of too much popular influence in the government.

With an intimate, 80-person setting, the club was a popular influence in local music and entertainment during the Beat era.

Perhaps their most striking similarity is a disinclination to recognize boundaries between popular and classical influences.

I'm talking to you, Janet," he said, "because I suspect you have more popular influence than anyone else here.

The subscribers had grown from 2,000 to 4,000, a measure of the growth of the work in popular influence and power.

Even so, by 1880 Spencer's American followers had declared victory over Darwin in the race for popular influence.

Public speeches, debates, and other forms of popular influence arose, creating a new style of politics.

He wished to popularise Kalarippayattu by harnessing the popular influence of cinema.

The Movement subsequently became radicalised, and lost some of its popular influence.

He was an old-fashioned, practical musician, a conductor-slash-composer, with lots of popular influence.