instrumental

You write quite a lot about your relationship with your mother and how she was instrumental in your success.

Goebbels was also instrumental in the initial success Strauss had under the Nazis.

The instrumental view of culture has it wrong, she argues, and should be replaced with what she calls an “expressive view.”

And in 1939, the MOMA building opened that he was instrumental in designing and building.

“It sounds like the kind of decision that a candidate and a campaign would be instrumental in shaping,” she said.

The Duke of Tarentum was mainly instrumental in saving the remnants of the army which had managed to cross the Elster.

This discovery and invention has been largely instrumental in the rapid development of sound recording.

Thus, contributions to vocal music, instrumental music and musical forms have been made by natives and residents of Virginia.

If she had been instrumental in the death of Sir Herbert, surely this was just the way she would conduct herself.

His present rather ridiculous discomfort he had been at least instrumental in bringing on himself.