The phrase "affect the circumstances" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing how certain actions or events can influence or change the existing situation or conditions.
Example: "The new policy is expected to significantly affect the circumstances surrounding employee benefits."
Alternatives: "influence the situation" or "impact the conditions".
This will often involve using the state to affect the circumstances of people's lives, but will also require everyone to contribute, step up and take responsibility.
The global financial crisis continues to affect the circumstances of every single person in the UK, and a national programme of austerity affects us all.
Furthermore, individuals may not always understand the formulation of the questions and some criminal individuals might feel unsafe in answering specific questions honestly, as they feel it might affect the circumstances of their incarceration or parole, for example.
What one can see, however, is how the needs of another are enacted by their circumstances and even how one's own being can affect the circumstances, positively or negatively, of another's existence.
To minimize any harm to the potential participants, they and the prison staff were carefully informed about the voluntary nature of the study and that participation should in no way affect the circumstances in the prison.
Troesken neatly separates and contrasts the public requirements for debate on individual liberties and rights that is an inherent part of a healthy democratic society, with the coordinated action necessary to address collective problems, where the actions of one individual affects the circumstances of another.
Thus, the interpreter affects the circumstances of the conversation [ 24] with communication tending to be partial and centred on healthcare staff [ 56].
Key informants were asked to describe generally (a) their professional role as it touched in any way on health, and to discuss (b) the oral health status of Latino children in the community, including their views on and ability to affect the cause, circumstance or outcome of children's oral heath.
A statement from the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, quoting an official spokesman, also urged the Egyptian, Arab and Muslim news outlets to report the issue "without letting it affect the feelings and circumstances of Arabs and Muslims living in western countries".
These factors affect the conditions and circumstances in which CRISPR/Cas9 will be used.
