"China is unable to affect Japan's choice.
For the first time, I was unable to affect the way they were playing.
His 78th-minute introduction at Anfield came with his side already 2-1 down and he was unable to affect the outcome.
Bernard is there too, conscious of what is happening (perhaps even fully conscious) but unable to affect what is going on.
The opinion of these young people, or of these old people, is now a thing that is quite unable to affect me.
European governments sense that they are increasingly becoming second-rank powers, unable to affect American foreign policy goals because they can bring too few military assets to the table.
"So this is neither a guaranteed, immediate doomsday scenario for Apple nor a ruling that's unable to affect Apple's business in the very near term just because it doesn't name the German subsidiary.
The ultimate goal is to make him appear powerless and weak, a flailing figure who is unable to affect the midterm elections or give the next Democratic nominee a boost.
James Sterngold (NYT) THE STATES THE VOTE IS IN THE MAIL Unable to affect the presidential nominating contests at this late point, Oregon voters used Tuesday's vote-by-mail primary, the nation's first, to reject ballot proposals calling for a new gasoline tax and limits on damages in personal-injury lawsuits.
Towards the end, she creates an extraordinary image to represent the troubles that punctuated the joyful parts of her relationship with the children: "But I often felt inadequate, wrong, unable to affect them, frustrated, mismatched – at best like a well-intentioned mouse crazily trying to chew two bear cubs out of a massive double net cast upon them by powers beyond its tiny vision".
Unable to affect the course of the disease by their own behaviour and excluded from insurance cover, patients would be forced to rely on the state for support.Neither route deliberately distorting the market or dumping more risk on the state is attractive.
