The phrase "influence on shaping" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it whenever you want to refer to the impact or effect that something has had on the development or formation of something else. For example, “The artist's unique style had a huge influence on shaping the direction of modern art.”.
It has also had a positive influence on shaping the detail of those changes.
If the oil-for-food operation is extended, however, it will have a tremendous influence on shaping the new Iraq.
"He had a tremendous influence on shaping Brookhaven's scientific efforts in the chemical sciences as a researcher and manager," Dr. Harris said.
She added: "Television has an enormous influence on shaping society and how we see each other and we have got to have fair representation of everyone on TV.
"With their powerful influence on shaping the perceptions of large audiences, the media are key players for the gender equality agenda," she said.
Having had such an enormous influence on shaping recent history, perhaps the trainee demagogue has started to fall for his own hype?
Further, TiO2 content shows a slight effect on shape fixity ratio of SMPU, but has an obvious influence on shape recovery ratio.
It is to be expected that environmental influences, such as food, or biological variables, such as age and size, have an influence on shape as well.
While diet could also have a plastic influence on shape components of the mandible, comparative experiments with extreme diet differences showed that the plastic influence is only moderate [ 21] and would not be sufficient to explain the specific shape shift seen in the Heligoland mice.
On the other hand the relatively broad scatter of shape in the PCA analysis (Fig. 6) in spite of a relatively homogeneous genetic background of the island mice could imply a larger role for environmental influence on shape than for the mainland populations.
Our Critical Infrastructure Protection synchronization group (see para 26) will focus on shaping, influencing and exploiting opportunities in this key area.
