"exercise influence over" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when talking about someone who has a certain amount of authority or power over a particular situation or person. For example, "The board chairman used his position to exercise influence over the decision-making process."
But community school boards would still exercise influence over the city's elementary and middle schools.
But many South Koreans assume that he continues to exercise influence over the chaebol.
Pohl has in the past been able to exercise influence over Joint Task Force-Guantanamo over questions concerning the movement of detainees into his courtroom, but the Baluchi team's gambit would test the relationship between the taskforce and the commissions.
His intervention was part of a chorus of appeals by world leaders for Aung San Suu Kyi, the 1991 Nobel peace prize winner, to exercise influence over the military leaders that controlled the government for decades until 2015.
In recent years, the Fed had whittled down its case, dropping its argument that Mr. Clifford and Mr. Altman had violated banking laws by permitting B.C.C.I. to exercise influence over the management and operations of its subsidiaries, including First American.
While Syria and Iran exercise influence over Hezbollah, the group maintains a large degree of independence, and a chain of events in which it surrenders its members is difficult to imagine.
She is quoted as telling a close friend: "It's not my exercising influence over him.
In the latter years of the ElBaradei administration, DDG Waller has not always exercised influence over programmatic areas or staffing as the USG had hoped.
Worse, they skewed the deals by exercising influence over what securities went into the C.D.O.'s, and they pushed for the worst possible stuff to be included.
Experts on immigration law and child psychology say that, with a 6-year-old boy, whoever exercises influence over him will ultimately win the custody battle, which is really what the asylum hearing is about.
That this was probably an illusion — that so far no laws seem to have been broken, that the Clinton Foundation donors have not exercised influence over the State Department — does not alleviate their cynicism.
