"trace influence" is a grammatically correct phrase that is commonly used in written English.
It means to follow or track the impact or effect that someone or something has on something else. Example: In her research paper, the author traced the influence of social media on teenagers' self-esteem.
In announcing the centennial plans at the New York State Theater on Friday, Mr. Martins stressed that unlike the all-Balanchine retrospective of the company's mammoth Balanchine Celebration in 1993, the diversity of choreographers next season was conceived to trace influences on Balanchine and his own influence on ballet.
The theory suggests that a physical trace (in the form of temporarily excited nerve cells) of an original stimulus remains in the brain even after that stimulus stops and that this trace influences the estimate or appreciation of a subsequent stimulus.
It is sometimes possible to identify how research findings have informed policy-making even when it might be extremely difficult to trace influences at other stages in the utilisation processes.
Solid lines traced influence, dotted lines traced assets and wavy lines traced frozen assets.
But this exhibition's ambitions are greater than just tracing influence.
Tracing influence remains a thrilling way to read; hearing echoes of a prior text still inspires.
And relatively few that have traced influence the other way, which is what this small scholarly show, the product of a Hunter College art history seminar, does.
He wrote with a wide-ranging erudition, tracing influences within the history of jazz and comparing them with the lineages of other art forms.
It will also trace his influence on seven Brits: Duncan Grant, Wyndham Lewis, Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore, Francis Bacon, Graham Sutherland and David Hockney.
In Virginia Woolf's words, "we hear her voice and trace her influence even now among the living".
