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The phrase "altering the course" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing changes to a plan, direction, or trajectory, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "The new policy is aimed at altering the course of our environmental impact for the better."
Alternatives: "changing the direction" or "modifying the path".
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Altering the course of sports television wasn't enough?
Altering the course of climate change is a task that will take decades.
But then again, altering the course of a war would be a strategic objective.
Even when he was altering the course of history, he did not cease to be enigmatic, unpredictable.
Fires can produce their own weather patterns, for instance, which can then end up altering the course of the fires.
Nor would a strike be aimed at altering the course of Syria's two-year-old civil war.
But the bombing did begin, very late, that Saturday, saving Benghazi and altering the course of the war.
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alter the course of trade.
This pope altered the course of world history.
Medical advances have profoundly altered the course of human life.
In New York, Holmes vowed to alter the course of games.
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