The phrase "affect the position of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how one factor influences or changes the location or status of another factor.
Example: "The new policy may affect the position of employees within the company hierarchy."
Alternatives: "influence the status of" or "change the placement of".
Technology continued to affect the position of classical music in the culture at large.
And how will this affect the position of Fletcher, whose Test match record away from India is abysmal.
It is not known whether Abell's appointment will affect the position of the Sun's ombudsman, Philippa Kennedy, who was appointed in September 2012 after being approached by Caseby.
The change will not affect the position of the monarch as the supreme governor of the Church of England, because Catholics will still be barred from the throne.
Therefore, a catalyst does not affect the position of equilibrium of a chemical reaction; it affects only the rate at which equilibrium is attained.
He emphasised that the appointment did not affect the position of Iestyn Harris as head coach and denied a role had been offered to the former Great Britain scrum-half Bobbie Goulding.
"All the stories that we want to go back to the territories, to dismantle the Palestinian Authority or to affect the position of Arafat are total nonsense," he said.
As several readers mentioned, b and c only affect the position of a parabola, not its shape: c merely moves the parabola up and down, and b moves it left or right and up or down.
The big question is therefore not so much how large the latest piece to break off is, but how a warming Atlantic, among other factors, is going to affect the position of the invisible hinge line.
In an 11-page document setting out a provisional defence for a case that could affect the position of hundreds of thousands of jobseekers in a similar position, the DWP has argued that having benefits docked does not equate to forcing the unemployed to work.
Hence, altered position of the tongue can also affect the position of the mandible [9].
