Sentence examples for affects a third from inspiring English sources

This is generally so even when the very same allegedly illegal act that affects the litigant also affects a third party.

This would also be crucial to reverse erosion and degradation, which currently affects a third of the planet's land, a different UN study found last year.

Acid rain affects a third of China's land and hundreds of thousands of people die from pollution-related cancer every year.

Personnel directors have reported that they can spend more than half their time dealing with issues related to a defined-benefit scheme, even when it only affects a third or less of the workforce.

Malnutrition has become "the new normal" and now affects a third of humanity, according to a study that warns of the devastating human and economic toll of undernutrition and obesity.

But the incident left her with expressive aphasia, a condition that affects a third of all stroke survivors and — though Tina can visualize precisely the words she'd like to say — largely robs them of verbal communication.

"The market is growing, that's for sure, and it's certainly not a niche market," says Green. "Disability is something that affects a fifth of the population – 12 million people in the UK.

12. Mediation analysis attempts to determine whether one variable (the predictor) affects a second variable (the outcome) by influencing a third, mediating variable (Baron & Kenny 1986).

For instance, indirect interactions between pathogens and herbivores can occur when infestation by a first attacker changes the shared host plant in a way that affects a second attacker that is often spatially or temporally separated from the first [7].

The 1918 influenza pandemic affected a third of all American women of child-bearing age.

At 9.15am, a third explosion hit a train in Edgware Road station, blowing a hole through the wall of a second train and possibly affecting a third.