The word 'detracting' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is the present participle form of the verb 'detract', which means to diminish the value or importance of something. Example: The constant interruptions during the meeting were detracting from the efficiency of our progress.
But since the end of the investment phase of the boom, exports have taken over in importance: What the graph also shows is that private capital investment is now detracting from GDP growth.
During the GFC, when private investment fell to such an extent it was detracting 0.9% points from annual GDP growth, public investment spending filled the gap.
This amounts to a deft rebalancing of policy without detracting from Brazil's case for reform of global governance.The mother of battles to reform the stateBut Brazilians will judge her on the economy.
Fainthearted Republicans are fretting that what the Wall Street Journal calls his "odour issues" are detracting from their agenda.Sugar Land does not agree.
Meanwhile, net trade exports less imports kept on detracting from GDP growth.Trade to the foreNow the economy must be driven by net trade, with private investment pitching in as well.
Wherever you go, now, thousands of ungrateful yobs turn up, slinging bricks at the police and sound-bites at the cameras, and generally detracting from the seriousness of the proceedings.
She is also active on story-sharing sites such as WattPad and Byliner.Yet it remains the case that efforts to incorporate social media into a work often end up detracting from the narrative.
Dr Brundtland sees such advocacy as a natural extension of the WHO's traditional roles, complementing rather than detracting from its original objectives of setting health-care standards and exterminating such dread diseases as smallpox and polio.The WHO is a complex organisation working in an increasingly politicised environment.
But it seems that attention to the flashier, exhibition side of things is detracting from NARA's real work: making documents available for public release.
Many modern productions use abstract sets that contribute little, if anything, to the mood".Far from detracting from the opera's musical voice, these visual elements let performers more engagingly inhabit their roles.
In sum, without detracting from the significance of Newbery, it may be said that he was merely the first great success in a field that had already undergone a certain amount of exploitation.
