The phrase "affect the manner of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how something influences or changes the way something is done or expressed.
Example: "The new policy will affect the manner of communication within the organization."
Alternatives: "influence the way of" or "change the approach to".
These considerations do not militate against disclosure, but merely affect the manner of disclosure.
With a big defeat expected in West Virginia today, Senator Barack Obama is ramping up his efforts to affect the manner of a general election candidate with a visit to Cape Girardeau, in the potential swing state of Missouri, for a town hall meeting later today.
The calculus of probability and benefit may affect the manner of our choosing between two courses of rescue, but the choice of present rescue over future cannot be justified by denying that there is any obligation to future rescue at all.
That doesn't mean we play in a different manner away from home – we've got the same personnel, the same way of playing – so there are aspects that are affecting the manner of goals we are conceding".
Pronouncing himself happy to be doing business with the hard-selling W.W.E., he smiled and stretched, affecting the manner of a cat who has just burped up a canary feather.
The Wall Street bank, which employs about 6,000 people in the UK, on Thursday said the Brexit vote "may adversely affect the manner in which we operate certain of our businesses in the European Union and could require us to restructure certain of our operations".
The composition, surface characteristics, and shape of NPs affect the manners that the proteins bind to them [ 129, 133– 133].
The Commission also found that the failure to deliver under the circumstances shown was a violation of § 1 6) which forbids unreasonable practices affecting the manner and method of delivering freight, and also a violation of § 1 9) which requires railroads to operate switch connections with private side tracks without discrimination under such conditions as the Commission found to exist here.
Additional training should encompass and provide an overview of how HIPAA affects the manner in which health care organizations maintain and monitor compliance relative to their patients' privacy and confidentiality.
The timbre of a struck or plucked stringed instrument is also affected by the manner of setting the string into motion.
