The phrase "acquired influence" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to the process of gaining or obtaining power, authority, or control over others. Example: The new CEO of the company quickly acquired influence over the board of directors, implementing major changes that greatly improved the company's performance.
You know, you've acquired influence, and not just money, but your life is good.
It has acquired influence in Africa, and has plenty of soft power (which will be enhanced if this year's football World Cup goes well).
Never a flashy senator — his colleagues Bill Bradley and Mr. Torricelli got more attention — Mr. Lautenberg acquired influence on the Appropriations Committee and had a consistently liberal voting record.
Influence, as a result, can be seen, measured and acquired; influence is now a real-price marketplace.
Thus, Kallergis used his newly acquired influence to have Makriyannis released.
Rogers suggested earlier this month that Russia had acquired influence over Snowden before he left his job as an NSA contractor and traveled to Hong Kong, where he leaked tens of thousands of classified documents describing U.S. and British eavesdropping operations.
However, if potential irrational acquirers are very large, this may be infeasible, both because the cost of acquiring influence may be too high, and because the impact of the irrational acquisition on value may be small relative to the other idiosyncratic risks of the position in the acquirer.
Others fear the abortion move speaks to a sinister and reactionary agenda which is acquiring influence and power across civil society.
The United States has an interest in preventing the Taliban from destabilizing South Asia by acquiring influence in nuclear-armed Pakistan or by provoking a war between India and Pakistan, two still-insecure nuclear powers.
Twomey says upholding caps on donations is important because "it is hard to acquire influence if your donation is only as valuable as that of hundreds or thousands of others".
Whether the society was small, with leadership a matter of acquiring influence rather than hereditary position, or larger, with chiefs who were looked on with awe and treated with reverence, every gift or service had to be reciprocated.
