FOI has not directly altered the way in which records are selected for permanent preservation or for alternative disposal.

Nothing in the Medicare legislation before Congress would directly alter the hospital payment system.

But it was thought that leptin acted like most other hormones, attaching itself to brain cells and directly altering their activities.

Dynamics were the ruling element, the different levels of loudness directly altering the timbre of the two instruments.

I know my actions directly alter the course of people's lives.

And, he added, "it constitutes the first statistical evidence," that jet lag directly alters athletic performances.

On geologic time scales, climate cycles can result in cyclic vegetation changes by directly altering the physical environment.

The act directly altered the facilitative circuit of technology.

If we landfill it, directly or in some alter form (eg.

Because facial plastic surgery directly alters appearance, self-image may be affected.