When Amy is confronted with her apparent acquaintance with a gangster named Cheese, she affects merely a vague knowledge of his existence.
Human beings have the ability not only to win at "Jeopardy!" but to feel a little embarrassed about winning on "Jeopardy!" Nor is this affect merely "emotional," in the classic Kirk-to-Spock sense.
"The definition of "corrupt conduct" does not extend to conduct that adversely affects or could adversely affect merely the efficacy of the exercise of an official function by a public official in the sense that the official could exercise the function in a different manner or make a different decision.
Looks like President Obama wants to see some change in our Cuba policy, and not merely change affecting only Cuban-Americans and their relationship with the country.
Instead, she may see such behavior as a personal or conventional issue: that is, affecting only herself or merely violating an arbitrary social rule (for more on these domain distinctions, see Nucci, 1994).
But it is wrong to suggest that lifestyle changes have minimal impact, merely affecting the probabilities in some small way.
Our generation is the first to be faced with this change affecting not merely one but virtually all paradigms contemporaneously.
Bohr took this further by including observation as one among many "external procedures" that affect not merely what we see but also the terms in which we describe it.[6] Heisenberg too, like Bohr, opposed Einstein's "realism".
The phenotype observed in the p73KO-NS was maintained, and even intensified, through the successive passages, indicating that the effect of p73 loss was not merely affecting the TA population, but rather the pool of NPC, the only capable of generating new NS.
None has the power to really affect policy, merely tinkering around the edges.
