The phrase "a corrupting influence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something or someone that negatively affects morals, behavior, or integrity.
Example: "The constant exposure to violence in media can be seen as a corrupting influence on young minds."
Alternatives: "a detrimental effect" or "a negative impact".
His titles were singled out by the U.S. Congress as having a corrupting influence on the nation's youth, and Feldstein lost his job in 1955.
The Drake Group, in particular, has declared that big-time college sports is basically a corrupting influence on the academic mission of the university.
Chris Garrard, lead author of the report, BP's Cultural Sponsorship: A Corrupting Influence, and a part of the Art Not Oil campaign coalition, said he had little doubt the Museums Association's code of ethics was being challenged.
And that is why abuses in the system so often go unreported and uncorrected, and why the game -- now more a fixture of the national entertainment industry than higher education -- is allowed to spread a corrupting influence.
Of those primed with time-related words, though, only 42% cheated.Nor, despite St Paul's aphorism, was the lure of lucre during the experiment (as opposed to the effect of thinking about it as a result of being primed) necessary as a corrupting influence.
In an article in the spring of 1993, after the James Bulger murder in Liverpool, the man who'd written A Clockwork Orange performed a remarkable volte face and mea culpa, deciding that violent films and books can have a corrupting influence.
"Paying from grants is kind of a corrupting influence.
Such art was largely modern or abstract work that Adolf Hitler's regime believed to be a corrupt influence on the German people.
A wry smile would pull in the corners of his mustache, as if he were saying, "Yes, well, of course that's the obvious question, and I know very well what the answer is, but how can I put it?" He was no defender of Mubarak, who he felt had "become a corrupt influence for Egypt and the reputation of the military establishment".
Vito J. Lopez, the Brooklyn Democratic assemblyman and county kingmaker who stands accused of sexual harassment, saw his favored candidate for district leader in the assembly district covering Williamsburg, Greenpoint and Fort Greene leading over an incumbent who had portrayed him as a corrupt influence peddler.
"What is the Maxine Waters Scandal all About?" The reports painted the embattled California Congresswoman --who is ofe of the most influential and outspoken elected officials as a corrupt, influence peddling, deal making politician who schemed to get millions in TARP bailout money for a bank in which her husband had stock.
