The phrase "a dominating influence in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a person, group, or factor that has a strong impact or control over a particular situation or area.
Example: "The company's innovative strategies have established it as a dominating influence in the tech industry."
Alternatives: "a major force in" or "a significant impact on".
The music of Memphis had for some time been a dominating influence worldwide, and in the 1960s, British bands, among them the Beatles, aspired to emulate the sounds of Memphis musicians including Elvis Presley without whom, according to Lennon, "there would not have been the Beatles".
The local skin friction reduction under the effect of periodic blowing/suction is stipulated by a dominating influence of an unsteady coherent vortex formed in the boundary layer, the vortex propagating downstream promoting a shift of low-velocity fluid further from the wall, a formation of a retarded region at the wall, and hence, a thickening of the viscous sublayer.
In the 19th century there was rapid growth of communities of unassimilated foreigners, mainly European, living in Egypt; these acquired a dominating influence over finance, industry, and government.
Most of his publications became important tools as textbooks used in various school types and exerted a dominating influence for many decades.
William Forsythe is another American whose career has taken place in Europe, from where he has established a dominating influence on the look and aesthetic of post-Balanchine ballet.
At century's end, the conservative commentator Allan Bloom surveyed Nietzsche's dominating influence in America in his Closing of the American Mind (1987), and lamented that readers had used the German philosopher's assaults on truth to underwrite their fuzzy-headed "nihilism with a happy ending".
Regression analyses of MRI data in areas implicated in the previous group comparisons revealed the dominating influence of age in explaining variation in volume and T2: R change = 0.247, P < 0.001 (gray matter volume lentiform); R change = 0.060, P < 0.02 (gray matter volume thalamus); R change = 0.578, P < 0.001 (T2 lentiform); and R change = 0.418, P < 0.001 (thalamusmus).
Men expressed frustration with the dominating influence of some mother-in-laws and were discouraged from involving themselves in decision making processes because their contributions were disregarded.
