Sentence examples for be affected by something from inspiring English sources

By demonstrating that exposure to X rays can cause mutations in the genes and chromosomes of living cells, he was the first to prove that heredity could be affected by something other than natural selection.

Environmentalists say that the interconnections are the key, because the model is expected to show how residents many miles from a proposed development project can be affected by something they had perhaps never even heard of.

Other caveats include the fact that individual mothers' personal exposures weren't measured (and might be affected by something inside the home) and that the study looked only at where mothers lived when they gave birth, not throughout the pregnancy.

Two weeks ago, he said that "You can't be going around having hugely promiscuous sex all over the place and hope that you won't be affected by something or the other".

He offers the reformed Giants a definition (horos) of being as a capacity (dunamis) to do something to something else or to be affected by something else (Sophist 247d e), and then tries unsuccessfully to get the Gods to agree (Sophist 248a e).

People's incomes and careers can be affected by something as simple as that, yet nobody seems to be asking whether this is a safe idea.

I couldn't risk our chances being affected by something so relatively unimportant.

Several years ago, Buchanan's mother was affected by something called transient global amnesia.

System accuracy has also been affected by something that is out of nature's control: the military-political complex.

"If a good proportion of test match results are affected by something as arbitrary as the toss, there needs to be a case for abandoning tradition once more".

Some people worry that sales of antiques are being affected by something that has nothing to do with the economy: changing tastes.