Yet Merkel's austerity policies have helped make Europe weaker, and Europe's weakness has begun affecting Germany, whose export-driven economy depends on its neighbors for markets.
By that time, the outer rainbands had begun affecting the region.
But as cross-border takeovers have become more common, so they have begun to affect companies governments regard as the crown jewels of their economy.
Robert Johnson, the prosecutor for Anoka County, in the suburbs of Minneapolis and St. Paul, says the new laws have begun to affect the way he does his job.
They demanded that the government enforce the law and end the prolonged protests, which have begun to affect the country's economy.
Body-image problems have begun to affect a wider range of age groups -- girls as young as 10 and women in their 50's and older -- psychologists have found.
In addition, Mr. Bush's unusual action in the case of Mr. McGinn underscored the way in which modern DNA testing and technology have begun to affect the debate over capital punishment by casting doubt on convictions once considered just.
As ratings have been more widely used in regulation, they have begun to affect the market, in a version of Goodhart's law (that any variable chosen as a monetary-policy target immediately starts to behave differently).
Thronging the area around Syntagma square, surgical masks often hanging about their necks, their presence was the strongest sign yet that the savage measures exacted in exchange for aid have begun to affect people who not that long ago might have considered themselves "well-established".
This has caused the industry's missteps to receive a great deal of media attention, and today environmentalists claim that Norwegian salmon farms — big, hoop-shaped, open-net cages that in their early days were sometimes moored in the migration pathways of indigenous salmon — have begun to affect the wild fish populations.
