The phrase "altering lives" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the impact of an action, program, or initiative that changes people's lives in a significant way.
Example: "The new educational program is focused on altering lives by providing access to quality learning resources for underprivileged children."
Alternatives: "transforming lives" or "changing lives."
The free market is still limited in Cuba, but already it is altering lives and reshaping attitudes.
In the meantime, a growing number of patients say the lack of basic information about DNA tests is altering lives in each of the three areas where the tests are available: prenatal screening, newborn screening and screening for some cancers and other adult diseases.
Together, we make up over 1,000,000 registered charitable organizations in the U.S. today, and do the daily work of changing and altering lives through grassroots community activism.
To others, like waiters or security guards, the changes have altered lives.
At its most creative and inspired, philanthropy can alter lives, or even a society.
Foremost, though, is her passionate sense of writing's importance, its possibilities to shape and alter lives.
Psychiatrists say longtime captives, who never had a say in how their futures would turn out, feel frustration about altered lives.
For some it was a day to pause and remember, a chance to step back from a tumultuous month to assess altered lives and a changed city.
Speakers Peter Lovatt, a dancer, and DJ Goldie also shared evidence about how staging movement and making music can alter lives and offer insights into human psychology.
It is the stuff of epics, mysteries and horror stories, for the news may alter lives irrevocably, or it may signify nothing more than a branch snapping in the Arcadian woods.
I had wondered, more times than I could count, what happens after the crisis subsides, the pack heads for the airport, the satellite trucks turn toward the interstate and the altered lives go on.
