The phrase "affect their situation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how certain actions, events, or decisions influence someone's circumstances or conditions.
Example: "The new policy changes will significantly affect their situation in the workplace."
Alternatives: "impact their circumstances" or "influence their condition".
Facing homelessness can be overwhelming, especially when people have several problems that affect their situation.
Or are people just O.K. being ambivalent about hate or ambivalent about acceptance if it doesn't directly affect their situation?
One emerging tool these Syrians caught in the crossfire have to affect their situation are their phones," observed the team headed by the center's founding director and arms-control expert William C. Potter.
If we want to give weight to the processes of European enlargement, we must reassure our citizens, our fellow citizens who live in those areas, that our words are not just hot air but authentic projects which will genuinely affect their situation, and that, when we talk of law and security, we will provide them with the necessary means, conditions and systems.
(pause) It's really important that you listen to what they're wondering about, how they feel it has affected their situation and family and listen out for what it is they want to know… that you are sensitive to and really find out how it has affected this particular person and not generalise.
"People have not yet begun to calculate how the market turmoil might affect their own situation," said Richard T. Curtain, director of the Michigan survey.
A person's ability to affect their own situation — in this case to have a say in the direction of relief and recovery efforts in their communities — is an important component of success.
The authors also found evidence that students' mental health may affect their financial situations: Poorer global mental health or greater alcohol dependence at the beginning of the survey correlated with greater difficulties paying the bills later on.
Actors that are part of an action situation often have the ability to change at least some of the rules that affect their own (action) situation.
Such a strategy has its justifications, considering the seclusion of American voters in quasi-isolationism, and the fact that they give absolute priority to matters that affect their livelihood and social situation in addition to the public debt, unemployment rates and the future of the economy.
Individual cells can suffer insults that affect their normal functioning, a situation often aggravated by exposure to external damaging agents.
