1.   The decision affects a significant proportion of the population.

2.   Public perception eventually results in regulation, in media treatment, in planning consents, and in government decisions affecting industry.

3.   Although the decision affected trials only in the United States, it created an impression that full-scale testing would have to wait for more promising candidates.

4.   As the Boston Globe reported on Wednesday, the decisions affected hiring, promotion and research.

5.   Because justices are appointed for life, their decisions affect policy long after the president who appointed them leaves office.

6.   Bill Noack, a GM spokesman, said the company had found that its decision had not affected relations with Congress at all.

7.   But that decision does not affect matters like marriage and religious burial.

8.   But the band retained the final say on decisions affecting it.

9.   But those decisions affect no other churches.

10.   Clifford Chanler, an attorney for As You Sow, said the decision could affect hundreds of other chemicals that Shell sells in the state.