The phrase "active influence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where someone or something has a direct and significant effect on another person or situation.
Example: "The active influence of social media on public opinion cannot be underestimated."
Alternatives: "direct impact" or "dynamic effect".
– Seth Thevoz Senior leaders often have (psychologically) high control needs: "They have been repeatedly promoted for achieving aims and goals by their active influence and command of their own resources.
"A few companies such as I.B.M., Motorola and Cargill pursue corporate entrepreneurship by establishing and supporting formal organizations with significant dedicated funds or active influence over business unit funding".
It is also shown that if the exit duct has the characteristics of a diffuser it, too, can have an active influence on the resonance cycle.
But mostly the trend for active influence goes — game, set and match — to Riccardo Tisci at Givenchy, whose sportswear with a sexual charge from his summer show last year is all over the spring/summer 2012 runways.
And I close with a quote brought to my attention by the nice fellows over at RiskMetrics' M&A Edge group: "Regard to reputation has a less active influence when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided among a number than when it is to fall singly upon one.
With the flow regime transforming from annular to stratified flow, the active influence of the gases velocity is gradually weakened and the local heat transfer coefficient even starts to decrease when it reaches stratified flow.
In this first story, you hear notes of Isaac Bashevis Singer; you hear Babel, a little Chekhov, some Joyce, all active influences, but above all you hear Paley inventing her own American English, one that clucks and sings.
Which combination of these three deformation mechanism will be active influencing the degree of non-planarity of the crack propagation at various stages of loading depends on the loading mode-mixity.
In political science, social relationships are generally thought of as mere sources of information, rather than active influences on one's political decisions.
Marital interaction means that spouses living together experience mutual influences which make them resemble each other, or that there are active influences of one spouse's phenotype on the other spouse's phenotype.
Variables were either active (high influence, low susceptibility), reactive (low influence, high susceptibility), critical (both high), or buffering (both low).
