The phrase "damaging influence" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to something (such as a person, event, or situation) that has a negative effect on someone or something else. For example: "The financial crisis has had a damaging influence on the global economy."
Ofsted holds such a major – perhaps damaging – influence on educational orthodoxy and any sound regime would be one that improved the quality of education, and did not have teachers second-guessing pedagogical preferences.
Before we place the largest burdens of taxation on workers, we should tax areas that have the greatest potential negative or damaging influence on our economy and our society.
And, despite President Bush's damaging influence on the image of Texas, liberal-minded folk thrive here and the arts are taken as seriously as big business.
Olmsted and Goodloe identified slave labor as the single most damaging influence on the southern economy: it was inefficient, absorbed capital away from reinvestment, and required substantial overhead.
To test the damaging influence of melisma, one need only try to hum one of Ms. Carey's vaporous hits all the way through; it's virtually impossible.
Hundreds of thousands have already added their name to campaigns urging governments to recognise the damaging influence "big polluters" have over climate policy, and to kick them out of COP21 and all levels of government.
Therefore, the surface of the tetragonal zirconia ceramics may be transformed and damaged, influencing the mechanical properties of the material.
Results of numerical simulations are provided to show how changes in the L/d ratio (rope length/rope diameter) and the initial state of rope damage influence the capacity, failure strain and stiffness of a damaged PET rope.
As commented earlier, these two first models were monitored by accelerometers in order to identify the damage influence on the dynamic behavior of the joint.
The study on the damage influence was conducted using a climate chamber to perform the temperature changes on the single edge notched beams.
Furthermore, the results reported here show that the smaller the standoff distance, the more significant the damage influence is on the response of the structure.
