The phrase "alien influences" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to external or foreign factors that affect a situation, culture, or individual.
Example: "The artist's work was heavily shaped by alien influences from various cultures around the world."
Alternatives: "foreign influences" or "external influences".
Meanwhile back in Germany a movement was beginning to protect good German gardens from unwholesome alien influences.
Antisemitism was as central to the wartime propaganda his department produced as it had been to earlier campaigns aimed at removing "alien" influences from German culture.
It would not have survived as long as it did had not the country been closed to alien influences for two and a half centuries.
He himself claimed to be superior to most of his contemporaries in "ability and willingness to learn from everybody," and indeed, for all his father's careful schooling, there was never anybody less buttoned up against alien influences than Mill.
At home Alia led campaigns to purge the artistic and intellectual communities of "bourgeois humanism" and other "alien influences" that threatened Albania's independence and the purity of its official Marxist-Leninist ideology.
Such links between Enlightenment thinking and 20th-century barbarism are, for Pinker, merely aberrations, distortions of a pristine teaching that is innocent of any crime: the atrocities that have been carried out in its name come from misinterpreting the true gospel, or its corruption by alien influences.
MANY books about Easter Island are superficial fluff, ranging from breathless pop-archaeology all the way through to outlandish New Age claims of mystic energy fields and alien influence.
"The Waters of Mars" began with Lindsay Duncan's space commander battling an alien influence that infected her colony's drinking water and caused her colleagues to transmogrify into goggle-eyed zombies whose cracked faces issued alarming torrents of clear liquid.
"I would like to urge the entire people to guard the nation with political awareness against any forms of disruptions in order that the mother country's independence and sovereignty will never be under alien influence," General Than Shwe said.
Several towns of Middle Bronze Age Palestine were defended by plaster-faced ramparts (clearly discernible at Jericho and many other sites), an imported method of fortification giving evidence of a new and alien influence superimposed on the existing Canaanite culture.
As Mowl puts it: 'Should a man with no English social background have been encouraged so quickly to a position where he could exert an unwise, and, in a very real sense, an "alien" influence?' The ugliness of the sentiment apart, does Mowl not realise that the migration of scholars and artists was one of the defining characteristics of the age?
