The phrase "avoid being influenced by" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the importance of maintaining one's own opinions or decisions without external pressure or persuasion.
Example: "In order to make an unbiased decision, it is crucial to avoid being influenced by popular opinion."
Alternatives: "steer clear of external influence" or "resist outside pressure.".
Influences: "There are really good aerial photographers out there but I avoid being influenced by their work.
And the defense lawyers in both of the current trials asked the juries in their opening statements to avoid being influenced by the presence of officers.
To avoid being influenced by product branding or reputation, the tasters were given no indication of which brand they were tasting.
They need to learn from the adults in their lives how to recognize bias in themselves and others, how to talk constructively to others about biases, and how to avoid being influenced by stereotypes.
Interaction between predator and prey is hard to avoid being influenced by some factors.
We chose to work with the original English version of the SWBQ to avoid being influenced by any subtle changes of meaning introduced in the Portuguese translation of the instrument.
I can't think of any singer who is true to himself who has avoided being influenced by Mabel Mercer.
Others are talking of MEPs voting in a secret ballot to avoid them being influenced by their national governments.
Each measurement was done within 10 min to avoid measurements being influenced by the accumulation of yeast cells in the flow-cell, which would alter readings.
But, as Pink points out, it's impossible for human beings to avoid influencing, and being influenced by, other people's words and deeds.
To avoid our results being influenced by preconceptions, we removed all of the lettering from the tables but retained the shape and asked a total of 24 non-chemist undergraduate students, postgraduates and staff to view the patterns on a computer screen and rate them, while we tracked the position of their eyes (see Supplementary Information for detailed methodology and results).
