Heat oven to 300 degrees F. Line shallow roasting pans with heavy-duty foil. Stir liquid smoke into mustard, if desired. Combine brown sugar, paprika, garlic powder, pepper and salt in small bowl. Brush meatier side of each slab of ribs with liquid smoke-mustard mixture or the mustard. Sprinkle brown sugar mixture evenly over mustard. Place ribs in foil-lined roasting pans.
Synonym Discussion of influence affect, influence, touch, impress, strike, sway mean to produce or have an effect upon. affect implies the action of a stimulus that can produce a response or reaction.
Affect (To, Towards). 1  Affect is based on a Latin word that means 'act on, have influence on, to do something to'. ( 2 The prefix ad results in acting on something.) Affect is both a noun and a verb. 3  The (transitive) verb is the more common form.