They see in it a harmful influence to the mastery of good French.

But frankly, she didn't appear to be a harmful influence.

If, on the other hand, he felt that someone was a really harmful influence, he did not hesitate to say so.

Experience may show that the local and municipal levels are unable to control the harmful influences of, say, the brewery industry.

A strong supporting argument was the supposed harmful influence of the cities on young impressionable minds.

World leaders also agree that actions must be taken to avoid harmful human influence on the climate.

According to another, they were meant to symbolically "burn up and destroy all harmful influences".

Yet, although credit rating agencies were not the main cause of the recent financial crisis, they did have a harmful influence.

That can only have a harmful influence on the economy.

For some it means the struggle to defend one's faith and ideals against harmful outside influences.