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  • He was affected by cancer. 
  • The small town was negatively affected by a natural disaster.
  • There is a free helpline for young people affected by cancer. 
  • Those living in areas below sea level were most affected by the tsunami. 
  • College graduates were affected by the temporary contract workers flooding the job market. 
  • There are hundreds of children around the country who will be adversely affected by this ruling.
  • The California town was affected by drought and water shortage.
  • She was affected by his touch.
  • She wiped her face, affected by his words.
  • The lack of employment in factories naturally affected the coal mining industry, and indeed every industry in the states, except those connected with the export trade, was severely affected.
  • There was no sign Ne'Rin's betrayal affected him at all.
  • Linda was too easygoing to be affected by much of anything, and the men seemed more surprised than anything else.
  • In the eastern region this was the last folding which has affected the country, and the Mesozoic and Tertiary beds are almost undisturbed.
  • Rhyn watched him, concerned at finding his sole friend so affected by the recent change in his life.
  • She sat and began playing with the buttons to see how they affected the holograms.
  • His words made Rhyn's throat tighten.  He'd never acted in order to gain his brothers' favor, but Kris's words affected him more than he thought they would.  There was a flash of light and Kris was gone.  Gabe jerked, as if surprised to find himself still standing.
  • They understood giving any credibility to a hint of the existence of a psychic tipster adversely affected their ultimate chance for a conviction.
  • Yet he didn't seem too affected by a life of pain, exclusion, and conflict.
  • Most of all, he wanted to tell her that he had never met a women who affected him the way she did, and he wanted to spend time with her, lots of time.
  • The death of the emperor Maximilian on the 12th of January 1519 had seriously affected the situation.
  • Even private persons, lords and ladies, affected to establish in their honours courts of equity.
  • This period was marked by intense earth movements, which affected the whole of the east Australian highlands.
  • Willoughby Smith found that it was not necessary even to connect the telephone to a secondary circuit, but that it would be affected and give out sounds merely by being held in the variable magnetic field of a primary circuit.
  • Smallpox affected the rich and the poor and it changed the course of history: It killed Queen Mary II of England in 1694, King Louis I of Spain in 1724, Emperor Peter II of Russia in 1730, and King Louis XV of France in 1774, and changed the succession to the thrones of nations a dozen more times.
  • Yet he'd done what Andre always warned him about: he'd acted without thinking and affected someone he hadn't intended to.
  • The Astrakhan rebellion (1706), which affected all the districts under his government, shook Peter's confidence in him, and seriously impaired his position.
  • Theoretically Jorisz regarded polygamy as lawful; there is no proof that his theory affected his own practice.
  • He was appointed inspector-general of higher education in 1876, and after his election as life senator in 1881 he continued to take an active interest in educational questions, especially as affected by compulsory military service.
  • The fineness of the hair may perhaps be ascribed to some peculiarity in the atmosphere, for it is remarkable that the cats, dogs and other animals of the country are to 'a certain extent affected in the same way, and that they all lose much of their distinctive beauty when taken from their native districts.
  • A woman's right to hold, manage and acquire property is not affected by marriage, except that unless she lives apart from her husband, she may not mortgage or convey real estate without his consent.
  • There are many charities starting up to help families affected by the catastrophic event.
  • There were, therefore, two principal epochs of folding in the island, one at the close of the Palaeozoic era which affected the whole of the island, and one at the close of the Mesozoic which was felt only in the western region.
  • Even his wit and knowledge of the world were spoiled, and his affected gaiety was touched with sadness, by the odour of falsehood which escaped through every pore of his body."
  • Thus the estimation of kinetic energy is intimately affected by the choice of our base of measurement.
  • When only one battery is used the current at the distant end may be considerably affected by the leakage to earth along the line.
  • He therefore saw that it was a mistake to insert a potential-affected detector such as a coherer in between the base of the antenna and the earth because it was then subject to very small variations of potential between its ends.
  • Should he go to headquarters next day and challenge that affected adjutant, or really let the matter drop, was the question that worried him all the way.
  • She bit her lip, wondering why the gentle words of a stranger affected her as they did.
  • While he was engaged upon some pieces for the convent of the Dominican friars, he made the acquaintance of Savonarola, who quickly acquired great influence over him, and Bartolommeo was so affected by his cruel death, that he soon after entered the convent, and for some years gave up his art.
  • The principal classes of products affected are foods, wearing apparel, building materials, furniture, &c., chemical products, printing and allied trades, and sundry others, such as cigars, matches, tanning, paints, &c. In some manufactures the raw material is imported partly manufactured, such as thread for weaving.
  • Recovery required years, although made easier by the sound and steady development of the pastoral and agricultural industries, which were slightly affected by the crisis; and the steadily increasing volume of exports, mainly foodstuffs and other staples, saved the situation.
  • The effects of the crisis were mainly felt in the three eastern states, Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia being affected chiefly by reason of the fact of their intimate financial connexion with the eastern states.
  • When this is done we have a syntonic system which is not easily affected by electric waves of other than the right period or approximating thereto.
  • It was then proposed to arrange a detector so that it was affected by the algebraic sum of the two oscillations, and by swivelling round the double receiving antennae to locate the direction of the sending station by finding out when the detector gave the best signal.
  • In the expression of his face, in his movements, in his walk, scarcely a trace was left of his former affected languor and indolence.
  • At that moment of emotional tenderness young Nicholas' face, which resembled his father's, affected Pierre so much that when he had kissed the boy he got up quickly, took out his handkerchief, and went to the window.
  • Darkyn himself had shown some signs of being affected by her, perhaps not as much as she liked, but more than she ever expected.
  • If Darkyn had a connection to Deidre, he'd be affected by the place as much as Gabriel was.
  • As usual, he appeared the least affected by anything that was going on.
  • He was a little resentful of the time she spent with the other boys.
  • Affected, he pushed off his boots and sat beside her.
  • Never had a kiss affected her so dynamically.
  • The last act affected us most deeply, and we all wept, wondering how the executioner could have the heart to tear the King from his loving wife's arms.
  • The narrative affected her greatly when first she listened to it.
  • I was as much affected by the faint hum of a mosquito making its invisible and unimaginable tour through my apartment at earliest dawn, when I was sitting with door and windows open, as I could be by any trumpet that ever sang of fame.
  • He wore a greatcoat in midsummer, being affected with the trembling delirium, and his face was the color of carmine.
  • It indicates better than any water hereabouts the absolute progress of the season, being least affected by transient changes of temperature.
  • The news of Count Bezukhov's death reached us before your letter and my father was much affected by it.
  • Then he lifted his head, stretched his neck as if he intended to say something, but immediately, with affected indifference, began to hum to himself, producing a queer sound which immediately broke off.
  • And this human feeling dominated everything else and soared above all their affected chatter.
  • "Very well, then, be so good as to wait," said Prince Andrew to the general, in Russian, speaking with the French intonation he affected when he wished to speak contemptuously, and noticing Boris, Prince Andrew, paying no more heed to the general who ran after him imploring him to hear something more, nodded and turned to him with a cheerful smile.
  • She did not like Princess Mary, whom she thought very plain, affected, and dry.
  • In Natasha's receptive condition of soul this prayer affected her strongly.
  • He treated his Serene Highness with a somewhat affected nonchalance intended to show that, as a highly trained military man, he left it to Russians to make an idol of this useless old man, but that he knew whom he was dealing with.
  • The establishment of order in the town made the citizens happy.
  • That Chateaubriand, Madame de Stael, and others spoke certain words to one another only affected their mutual relations but does not account for the submission of millions.
  • I may be affected by a theatrical exhibition; on the other hand, I may not be affected by an actual event which appears to concern me much more.
  • No woman had ever affected him this way.
  • He didn't seem affected by the words, as if whatever wound the events caused was completely gone.
  • It was hard not to be affected by the strength and heat of his body or the fact she was way too close to him.
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