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At first this might not seem like a big deal, and in the scheme of things perhaps it is not, but the seemingly meaningless change will affect the look of structures that are built in the county in interesting ways.

This practice has made it ever more difficult for changes in public opinion to affect the branch that the Framers designed to be most responsive to such changes.

''That's a new one.'' The Scientific Theory known as Heisenberg's uncertainty principle holds, in its popular interpretation, that to observe something is to affect its course.

That is because a change in the lines of one or more districts will affect others as they, too, have to be adjusted to keep population equal and comply with other laws.

And that could affect the balance at the Legislature where the GOP controls the Senate on a 17-13 margin and the House by 39-20, with one independent.

Meanwhile, there are various other potential events that could affect this picture.

Schroeder suggested in a photo opportunity before the meeting that he thinks central banks might have to act to affect currency values.

The resolution is merely an expression of opinion and, if passed, will not affect current Kentucky law.

The narrator's subterfuge whereby he hopes to win the story competition leads to personal disgrace, and it's an episode Wolff recounts with such immediacy that the shock of it seems to affect us as vividly as might the misfortune of one of our own friends.

Meanwhile, the rest of the world will have to hold its breath until the dust settles ... The ramifications of what is happening in this Arab country will affect, most of all, the Middle East.

Henry had limped off towards the end of that crushing disappointment, the official line being that a disc problem in his back was threatening to affect his hamstring.

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