The phrase "immense influence over" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is used to describe a strong and significant impact or control that one person or thing has on another. Example sentence: The billionaire's immense influence over the government allowed him to push through policies that favored his company's interests.
Such companies, known as pharmacy benefit managers, can exert immense influence over what drugs are prescribed and dispensed.
The brainy toilers at think-tanks in Washington, DC, do not earn nearly enough to be admitted to Tiger 21, but they wield immense influence over public policy.
Richter's immense influence over succeeding generations – his intellectualism, his historical reach, the meditative depth of his photo-based paintings – is nowhere apparent at the Saatchi Gallery.
The mayor of New York wields immense influence over the city's roughly 1,700 schools, as a result of a 2002 state law that wrested power from local school boards.
These groups aren't loyal to any one candidate, and they don't plan to disband after the election; instead, they expect to yield immense influence over the party's future, at the very moment when the power of some traditional Democratic interest groups, like the once mighty manufacturing unions, is clearly on the wane.
His grandfather was the famed evangelical preacher Billy Graham, who exerted immense influence over American politics, culture, and theology.
Brat's surprise victory is a powerful reminder, as if any were needed, of the immense influence talk radio has over conservative politics -- it was not only [syndicated talk radio host Laura Ingraham] boosting but also Glenn Beck and Mark Levin bringing their considerable influence with the right to bear as well.
While few, if any, of the proposed measures are likely to pass unchallenged, the immense control Republicans now wield over state legislatures is cause for concern--as is the apparently immense influence Arizona lawmakers wield over their conservative neighbors.
You ignore the immense influence wielded by big business over the policies of governments the world over.You also assert that "Ms Klein deplores freedom to trade as one of the vilest manifestations of the neoliberal tyranny".
By my count, only one of the fifty essays in this volume was originally published in an online-exclusive venue, which, given the immense influence of sites like Pitchfork over the past two decades, doesn't feel like enough.
None of this means, of course, that The Descent of Man has not exerted an immense influence on the sciences of human origins over the last century and a half.
