India's strength has always lain in its ability to absorb foreign influences; it need not fear them.

We can easily absorb capitalist influences, but socialism doesn't have much to offer Hong Kong.

She later worked on these tracks in Trinidad, where she absorbed influences from the country's love of soca music.

While esconced in a declining provincial city, he absorbed international influences.

In addition it has absorbed influences from Greek, Italian and English.

We're living in a time when we absorb musical influences from all over, and that's an exhilarating thing.

It absorbs historical elements and contemporary influences into an organic whole.

Throughout its development, pop music has absorbed influences from most other genres of popular music.

She wasted no time absorbing new influences on her work, particularly paying close attention to studying Indian hand movements - some 300 of them.

Each group absorbed Chinese influences at different speeds and customized them in inventive ways.