Sentences with phrase «actions have little effect»

Most of our actions have little effect on any other part of that creation; so limiting our devotion to this one planet has few negative consequences.

Not exact matches

In fact, some may have little or no effect, especially if your actions show that you don't truly understand what motivates your top performers.

A little more than half (51 percent) think that actions taken by the new president and Congress next year will make their businesses better off, 17 percent think their businesses will be worse off and 26 percent think the actions will have no effect.

The Chinese authorities have expressed concern about overheating in some sectors of the economy, taking action to rein in credit growth and rebalance growth away from investment and towards greater household spending, but as yet there is little evidence that this is having the desired effect.

Put simply, when valuation measures are steeply elevated but investors remain inclined to speculate, as evidenced by very broad uniformity of market action and the absence of internal divergences, rich valuations often have little effect on market outcomes.

Yes, Breaking Bad has some grisly moments, but ultimately, it's a remarkable piece of modern American fiction about the lengths we will go to justify our own evil, the little temptations that start adding up to real wickedness and the ripple effects of our own actions.

He holds that any actions the United States could take in the Japanese situation would have little effect on the deeper forces and movements of history.

«What is particularly missing at this time is her coming out in public, meeting her constituents, talking to TV cameras, explaining what happened, perhaps being a little humble about all of this and giving a satisfactory explanation to her constituents and the wider Conservative family to be quite frank, because speaking to people from the West Midlands region where she is an MP, these things do have a knock - on effect and there are other marginal seats far closer to her constituency where people have got Labour majorities to overturn which may be more difficult if the local Conservative politician is seen as tainted and not having justified their actions and also I gather that Conservative Party HQ has had party donors from the region expressing concern that she hasn't satisfactorily justified what she has done.»

A new study co-authored by an MIT professor finds that little - known state laws called «constituency statutes» have significant effects on the quantity and quality of innovative business actions.

Twenty - five years later, with people still claiming injury from the disaster yet little corrective action having been taken, the government of India has called for a study into the long - term effects of the spill.

One area it falls short: Some of the fight sequences were a little too frantic to follow all the action; this may have been more of a side effect of watching the movie in 3D than anything else.

Quests rarely have any branching paths or variables that hold lasting effects according to your actions; indeed, as demonstrated by Skyrim and Oblivion beforehand, Bethesda fasely believes that «role - playing» amounts to little more than «having alot of stuff to do.»

It would all be a little hard to take if the visual effects were more convincing (they're cartoonish) or the action scenes at all naturalistic (ditto), but director Brad Peyton isn't especially ambitious.

There's little action in between a surprisingly violent gunfight at the beginning and the climactic battle - at - high - seas between Sparrow and Jones» crews, and while the special effects are quite effective, these sequences just don't have the inventive thrills of the last films.

In place of story is a non-stop cavalcade of wire - fu fight scenes rife with CG effects, which impress when compared to those of the original, but in the world of action, offer little we've seen before in better films with bigger budgets.

Even having Cruise demanding David Koepp's original script be re-written by Robert Towne seemed to have little effect on him — he knew that as long as he had some great action set pieces, the film would do its job.

From this whipsmart opening, Whedon builds to a brutal second act that mercilessly piles on the hurt, with each character — even Scarlett — given some really bad business to deal with in an extended mid-air action sequence of such sustained and wrung - out tension that it has the unintended effect of rendering the final showdown just a little limp by comparison.

This being the case, it is surprising how little research has been conducted to understand the effect of this transition on a student's long - term academic, social and emotional wellbeing, and what action can be taken in response.»

Public choice, supplemental services, corrective action plans, and reconstitution have all been implemented limply and to little effect.

Indiana's action will have little effect on the rest of the country, although it may isolate Indiana and present special challenges for Indiana teachers.

Albert Bandura, psychologist, professor, and the leading authority on the research regarding Self - Efficacy, notes «unless people believe they can produce desired effects by their actions, they have little incentive to act or persevere in the face of difficulties» (p. 3.

The idea is to settle the debt for as little as possible so as to avoid a court action and the negative effects the information will have on your credit report and credit score.

* There is too much conflicting evidence about climate change to know whether it is actually happening * Current climate change is part of a pattern that has been going on for millions of years * Climate change is just a natural fluctuation in Earth's temperatures * Even if we do experience some consequences from climate change, we will be able to cope with them * The effects of climate change are likely to be catastrophic * The evidence for climate change is unreliable * There are a lot of very different theories about climate change and little agreement about which is right * Scientists have in the past changed their results to make climate change appear worse than it is * Scientists have hidden research that shows climate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climate change

Indeed, pipeline opposition and other stopgap actions (closing a coal — fired power plant, etc.) have little ultimate effect unless we put in place the real solution.

I find it profoundly telling that we could create some very complex assumptions as to CO2 levels and tree rings and the like to the point of minutia and trivia, but have little to say about the subsequent effects of our actions beyond temp and CO2 levels.

While the animal's nipping beak seems to have had little discouraging effect on the platform worker, as an observer it's hard not to interpret the turtle's actions as a simple rebuke against the whole hazardous practice of underwater drilling.

They've had relatively little effect on most State and national policy decisions because a sufficiently large fraction of the electorate does not believe the case has been sufficiently well proven to warrant large - scale tax or regulatory action.

Professor Hoffmann rationalizes that criminal prosecution has little deterrent effect because the physician's actions in these negligence cases are not intentional.