China's growing appetite for wine has already demonstrated the power to alter prices around the world.

The huge mass of metal that makes up your car alters the magnetic field around the loop, changing its inductance.

But it will take more than the shattering events of last fall to permanently alter travel patterns around the metropolitan archipelago.

Fairlie altered his course, toward the hard flare around the excavation.

Gravity altered around them and they slid up inside the opening.

Each correction he made altered the relative paths of the other rocks around him so that their new courses had to be checked.

Small gas bursts altered its straight-line path to curve around the close horizon.

That the world was altering around him, or that he was being extracted from it.

He altered action around him and excited the crowd of 9,516.

The world that had been trying to alter around him was now trying to come back.