"alter life" can be used in written English.
It is often used to refer to a significant, life-altering event. For example, "Winning the lottery changed her life and provided an opportunity to alter life as she knew it."
But the situation can alter life plans and jettison hopes.
It can challenge relationships and alter life plans.
Already enough CO2 has been pumped into the air to alter life on earth for thousands of years to come.
John Malkovich is the megalomaniacal Murnau, convinced that the camera has the power to alter life itself.
This, of course, would alter life in a small corner of Elyria and disrupt the general continuity of the Breakfast Club, whose daily gatherings are really extensions of the same never-ending meal.
The apostle of ideas as action didn't think that ideas would actually alter life; he expected that life would go on more or less as it had in spite of them, while always giving him another chance to make them better.
These findings provide the strongest evidence to date that the economic circumstances of a family can influence a child's developing stress system and provide a mechanism through which poverty early in life could alter life-course risk for physical and mental health disorders.
According to allocation theory, selection for growth rate is expected to indirectly alter life-history reproductive traits, diverting resources from reproduction to growth.
Such a response would reduce the need to mount a potentially energetically costly immune response, and would parallel that of other hosts that alter life-history traits when there is a risk of infection.
Osama bin Laden has altered life for everyone, everywhere.
THE curtailment translates into an altered life style.
