But Arul still managed to affect their lives.
In my classes, we read great fiction obsessively, and then attempt to see how a writer managed to affect us.
When we meet on set, Bleakley manages to affect more professional good cheer about the criticism than Chiles, but neither pretends for a second to be indifferent.
Likewise, there's a history of dashing men like Cary Grant and Humphrey Bogart who managed to affect a personal style with plenty of hair goop but without compromising their virility.
I even managed to affect a tone of authority when discussing the previous week's game, which I hadn't seen and wouldn't have understood if I had.
Hunka suggests the salesman is a hangdog figure, derided but still sympathetic: "As an audience, we may think he is crass; at the same time the ideology of the salesman has somehow managed to affect all of us.
A dramatic variety of vote-splitting happens when a "spoiler" with no chance of winning manages to affect the outcome of an election by sucking away votes that could have reversed the positions of two front-runners in a close race.
The girls were able to keep themselves clean and rustle up the occasional meal as they screamed and flounced and slammed doors, and the boys managed to affect a democracy of sorts, writing impressive lists of rules before promptly undermining it all by beating each other up and failing to comprehend precisely how it is that their mum gets a frozen pizza to become edible.
The training resulted in two new, feasible and different types of conversations that managed to affect some of the patient's ideas and action plans.
In addition, earlier security breaches on Zappos.com, Sony Playstation's network, at marketing firm Epsilon (whose customers included TiVo, Walgreens, Disney, HSN, several banks, Marriott and more) and elsewhere, have managed to affect a wide swatch of the U.S. online population.
