Geisbert was also quick to mention how the methodology of the study could be affecting the current results.
President Ronald Reagan took similar action, affecting about 100,000 families.
Neither, too, was as chilling, as affecting, or, at times, as much of a slog.
When asked about how his announcement from last November was affecting the race, Michaud seemed momentarily at a loss.
Asthma is one of the most common diseases among children, affecting roughly one in every eleven kids.
Will you doubt, my dear, that my next trial will be the most affecting that I have yet had?
Absorbed in the struggle with his conscience he had no least suspicion of how his words were affecting her.
The conclusion of this affecting narrative brought them to the house.
Thy heart is ingenuous and sincere; thy misfortune is poignant and affecting.
Such was the language, and such the affecting simplicity of the innocent and uncultivated Imogen.
"to make an impression on," 1630s; earlier "to attack" (c.1600), "act upon, infect" (early 15c.), from affect (n.). Related: Affected; affecting.
late 14c., "mental state," from Latin noun use of affectus "furnished, supplied, endowed," figuratively "disposed, constituted, inclined," past participle of afficere "to do; treat, use, manage, handle; act on; have influence on, do something to," a verb of broad meaning, from ad- "to" (see ad-) + facere (past participle factus) "do" (see factitious). Perhaps obsolete except in psychology. Related: Affects.
"to make a pretense of," 1660s, earlier "to assume the character of (someone)" (1590s); originally in English "to aim at, aspire to, desire" (early 15c.), from Middle French affecter (15c.), from Latin affectare "to strive after, aim at," frequentative of afficere (past participle affectus) "to do something to, act on" (see affect (n.)). Related: Affected; affecting.
affect af·fect (ə-fěkt')
v. af·fect·ed, af·fect·ing, af·fects
To have an influence on or affect a change in.
To attack or infect, as a disease.
A feeling or emotion as distinguished from thought, or action.
A strong feeling with active consequences.
