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задающий тон stresses
gen.	pacesetting; pacemaker; influencer (sankozh)
Игорь Миг	trend-setting
adv.	trend setter
задавать тон
gen.	tone; rule the roost; give tone to; play first fiddle; set the style; give the note (Anglophile); give a lead (Anglophile); set the fashion (Anglophile); set a tone (bookworm); lead the way (nelly the elephant); set the scene (naturalblue); call the tune; call the play; keynote (на съезде партии и т.п.); pitch; set the pitch (Anglophile); commandeer (напр., совет для соискателя: Don't commandeer the interview Jen anto)
Игорь Миг	orchestrate; be in the driver's seat
amer.	keynote (на съезде партии)
dipl.	set the tone (на встрече, на переговорах)
fig.	set the pace
idiom.	call the shots (Increasingly in shaping our foreign policy priorities it is the media which calls the shots. bookworm)
law	act as a rainmaker (Alexander Demidov)
Makarov.	set the расе
obs.	rule the roast (В.И.Макаров)
proverb	set the tone
sport.	make the running
задать тон
gen.	rule the roost; set a tone (bookworm); keynote (на съезде партии и т.п.); get it going (VLZ_58); guide (Don't let one or two overwhelmingly positive or negative examples guide the entire recruiting process. SirReal)
Игорь Миг	take the lead
fig.	set the pace
mus.	pitch; set the pitch; set the style
proverb	set the tone

задающий тон: 33 phrases in 11 subjects

Advertising	2
Chess	2
Diplomacy	2
General	7
Idiomatic	2
Makarov	7
Music	2
Patents	1
Politics	5
Rhetoric	2
Stock Exchange	1