Sentence examples for affects past from inspiring English sources

Volcanic activity affects past and present landscapes.

First, using a single fixed gene (or allele) as an IV will generally fail to identify peer effects if the gene affects past values of the treatment.

The Walt Disney Company said today that it had included expenses it should not have in a recent regulatory filing that showed how new accounting rules would have affected past financial results.

This change, which will affect past estimates as well, prompted Oliver Letwin, the Conservative shadow chancellor, to protest about "fiddling the figures".Things could still go wrong for Mr Brown.

If things were different enough — if we could travel backwards in time — then we would have an ability that we don't actually have — the ability to causally affect past persons and things (Horwich 1987, Lewis 1976).

The ruling does not affect past cases.

The intention is to identify, document, and interpret local strategies and conditions affecting past community forestry successes and failures, in order to recognise and understand those factors that might enhance or limit community capacity for CDM implementation.

The purpose of this paper is to examine factors that influence collaboration among the members of a new translational research network (TRN), affecting past collaborative ties, as well as current and future collaborations.

He argues that the widespread agreement that changing the past is impossible captures the truth that transforming the past is impossible but that replacing the past (like affecting the past) is possible.

Earlier we distinguished changing the past and affecting the past, and argued that while the former is impossible, backwards time travel need involve only the latter.

We don't deliberate about the past; we think it irrational to do anything aimed at trying to change or affect the past.