The phrase "acquiring influence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is gaining power, authority, or sway over others, often in social, political, or professional settings.
Example: "Through networking and strategic partnerships, she is acquiring influence in the industry."
Alternatives: "gaining influence" or "building influence."
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.
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.
Professor Gates said Professor Bryce-Laporte had urged students to involve themselves in activities like writing for the college newspaper and joining secret societies as steps to acquiring influence in the larger society.
How does their motivation for acquiring influence the optimal combination of integration choices?
Second, how students organize the knowledge they are acquiring influences both how they learn and how they will be able to apply what they know.
You know, you've acquired influence, and not just money, but your life is good.
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.
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).
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".
