Nor did it operate on a global scale, though it was deeply influenced by international events.

CNN: Commentary: Is it 1929 all over again?

It is well known that Steve Jobs was deeply influenced by his seven months of wandering around India.

FORBES: Steve Jobs The Buddhist Would Not Have Fired Tim Cook

Britain's reaction to the growth of the European Union has been deeply influenced by this instinctive belief in the need to prevent the rise of a controlling power in Europe.

ECONOMIST: A question of balance

Thus, while Christian teaching draws deeply on the mysticism in the religion of Israel, the modern expression of Judaism has been influenced by patterns of thought which come from the secular or post-Christian West.

ECONOMIST: Christians and Jews