The gritty dust is millimeters thick — deep enough to show footprints and allow for sliding, shallow enough to keep from piling up and affecting the way the ball bounces.
Because it was not indexed for inflation, however, Congress has had to approve periodic fixes to keep it from affecting many more people than intended.
It has tried to slow the yen's rise by selling yen for dollars at the government's request, but it "sterilized" its interventions with offsetting transactions to keep them from affecting the larger economy.
It's the story of a troubled hit man (William H. Macy) who is trained to follow his murderous father (Donald Sutherland) into the family business but who also tries to keep it from affecting the lives of his young son and his psychiatrist (John Ritter).
But this process only works in acidic environments and often leaves behind an iron sludge that requires a secondary cleanup to keep it from affecting the environment.
All of us have personal struggles, some of them serious, and when we do, it can be hard to keep them from affecting our performance at work.
By using either air convection or ionic attraction, they suck up the excess smoke caused by your cigarette to keep it from affecting those around your (or your PC).
To ensure that you get a good night's sleep, eye masks are an inexpensive way to keep light from affecting your sleep.
While the loss of sensation on the mastectomy side continues to be a constant reminder of my past, I work hard to keep it from affecting me, as it did in the earlier days.
Also, in the novel, Verger literally has no face and has to be kept in a sterile room at all times to keep bacteria from affecting exposed muscle and tissues.
Eyes flushed, nose and mouth checked for proper breathing etc, and immediately affected clothing removed to keep from further contamination.
