Sentences with phrase «anything meaningful about»

They get adopted because they appear beneficial, but they are not, but once the harm manifests, it is too late to do anything meaningful about it.

Our continuing failure to do anything meaningful about the enormous real barrier while wasting out time on non-barriers is where the real danger lies.

«can we say anything meaningful about stability of climate states and when will there be rapid changes?»

Secondly, year to year fluctuations are very large and simply reflect the chaotic nature of weather — the change over a single year does not say anything meaningful about climate trends.

But what this really shows is the utter foolishness and willful ignorance at looking at short term trends and trying to extrapolate anything meaningful about long - term climate change.

And to those several people who somehow claim that you can calculate anything meaningful about the complexity of a planet without demonstrating that you grok these fundamental «laws», you demonstrate an astounding ignorance of the method of physics — and planetary temperature is an issue of applied physics.

If we're talking about a once - in - a-century event (the striking figure often used in the media), then we'll need quite a few centuries before we can say anything meaningful about their statistics.

The ETF was launched in February, so it's too soon to say anything meaningful about its performance.

It is difficult to add anything meaningful about taxes because of complexity.

«The results of the phonics screening check are increasingly used in this way and therefore its ability to tell us anything meaningful about progress in early literacy is eroding.»

This is misuse because it invalidates anything meaningful about student involvement.

We, the audience, know it is an excuse because the film never bothers showing / telling us anything meaningful about the suffering of the woman seeking revenge for the accident.

So widely known and loved are The Beatles that it's almost impossible to judge them objectively or say anything meaningful about their creations.

Does it tell us or show us anything meaningful about the refugee issue?

It's nigh impossible to measure anything meaningful about planetary atmospheres when there's such a large confounding influence.

But so far, most of these people have displayed a remarkable lack of willingness to even understand their own predicament, let alone do anything meaningful about it.

Major League Baseball's drug policy didn't say anything meaningful about steroids until 2005, just as it didn't say anything about amphetamines until 2005.

Did Kate learn anything meaningful about football?

If you exist at random, is there anything meaningful about personhood that has implications about being alone?

Hence to say anything meaningful about globalization, including how to respond to it, there is need to know as clearly as possible what it is all about.

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What is disappointing to me here is that even under the NDP reign, the Alberta government still pretends it is serious about protecting and recovering endangered species but refuses to do just about anything meaningful in relation to the most important step in the process — which is to protect critical habitat.

Feelings of inadequacy, performance doubts, worries about under - appreciation, and concern over whether their efforts are actually accomplishing anything meaningful were all noted by participants as significant issues.

There is about a month before anything else meaningful goes down in baseball.

At the end of a more «meaningful» chat always ask whether there's anything else your teenager would like to talk about and — even if they seem embarrassed — reiterate that you're always available to talk to on any topic and that you enjoy these opportunities for frank talks.

Or, depending on who you ask, it was a monumental disappointment, a heap of compromises and half - measures in the state budget and later an anti-climatic finish that seemed more about sticking it to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and boozing it up at brunch than doing anything all that meaningful.

I was listening to 538 podcast about shutdown end, and they made it sound like their opinion is that on balance, Democrats didn't really win anything meaningful (compared to not having started...

Loosely (extremely loosely), the media is hugely left - wing (leaving aside the point I agree with that left / right is a highly imprecise and largely meaningful term); and therefore anything the media says about the right - including calling Nazism «right» - is aimed not at some universal truth but at scoring political points against their opponents.

I realize that two years of marriage doesn't make me an expert or anything, but that doesn't mean I haven't learned a thing or two about what it takes to be a good partner and to build a strong, meaningful and happy marriage.

But I'd say you need to establish trust with a person before you reveal anything really meaningful about yourself.»

You'll quickly know whether you both «click» by having those simple, yet, meaningful conversations, practically about anything you'd like to talk about.

Although Viola Davis offers a fantastic performance here, this disgusting melodrama is much more concerned about making you cry than saying anything meaningful, while most of the characters are one - dimensional and several unnecessary details are constantly added to the story with the sole purpose of cheap sentimentality.

While the respectable result is a more meaningful film than just about anything Mandoki worked on during his 17 years in Hollywood («Angel Eyes,» «Message in a Bottle»), pic suffers from an overindulgence of triumph - over-adversity cliches and a meandering narrative.

The film doesn't have anything meaningful to say about this pattern or the reason it exists for these characters, save for what a few of the characters themselves have to say for those things.

, these quirks are hung on the character in lieu of real development; like Steve Carell's obsession with Proust, or Paul Dano's desire to be a pilot, they don't reveal anything meaningful to us about these people, it's just lazy writing.

And whether or not you sauntered back into the daylight thinking those films had had anything meaningful to say about the human capacity for violence, you had to admit it was hard to shake their crude, violent images out of your head.

Do not go into this movie expecting deep plot, meaningful conversations among characters, or anything remotely resembling a serious action or drama movie — because that's not what it's all about.

Not only does it immerse them in relevant learning and meaningful application of skills, it provides them with authentic preparation for adapting to a world yet to be.If we know anything about the Earth it is this: The one constant is change.

That doesn't say anything about how they're treated during their lives, and isn't subject to any meaningful oversight or enforcement, but surely we can rely on the industry to «self - regulate,» as we do with other eaten animals.

Describing your work as meaningful, captivating, groundbreaking, beautiful, or interesting doesn't tell your reader anything about what your work actually is.

Bush has made it painfully clear that he has no interest in doing anything meaningful on energy and environmental issues unless it, first and foremost, helps the special interests he cares about the most.

In the scorching summer of 1988, when global warming first hit headlines in a significant way, presidential candidate George H.W. Bush used a Michigan speech to pledge meaningful action curbing heat - trapping greenhouse gases, saying, «Those who think we are powerless to do anything about the greenhouse effect forget about the White House effect.»

Of course, the thorniest question is whether anything meaningful can be done about it.

They can't do anything about this in any meaningful way.

The problem with the chart is that it starts in 1998 (not to mention thinking anything particularly meaningful about long - term climate trends can be extrapolated from 12 years — try this one instead).

The irony to me is we in this post appear to have near - unanimity on the inability to conclude anything (project with meaningful confidence) about the future from the GISS data alone.

For all that, it is well beyond my areas of competence, interest and experience to having anything meaningful to say about the actual practice of law and such opinions as are expressed relate only to the issue of law publishing and the provision of information to and for people with interests in law.

They don't want to take meaningful efforts to curtail illegal content on their site (and are known to be terrible about removing flagged content) so instead of putting effort into anything... they'll just shut the section down.

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