Sentences with phrase «anything meaningful on»

Scientists expressed concern that the oil and gas regulations will fail to do anything meaningful on climate change given the federally - allowed expansion of oil sands developments, and the long history of broken promises on climate action.

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.

«Thus far, we haven't observed anything meaningful on a trend basis, which is good news,» he said.

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Nate Elliot, a vice-president with Forrester Research who works with marketers, notes that the promoted tweets are the only meaningful advertising options for his clients, and he doesn't see anything else on the horizon.

i think that's a very good question — but i don't believe there's enough room on all the forums of all the websites to even approach the subject with anything meaningful.

It got so bad that Fernando decided that he'd prefer to do the Indy 500 than race at Monaco, and on a few occasions even retired a car that had nothing wrong with it because he couldn't be bothered to drive around near the back with no hope of achieving anything meaningful.

Should this season go down and us not achieving anything meaningful the blame will be solely on Wenger and he should pack his bag next season (he acts as though money comes from his pockets).

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.

If you can't contribute anything meaningful (like a whole paragraph of decently written THOUGHTS on a subject), then STFU and take your dumb ass elsewhere.

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...

«Whether or not anything meaningful comes out of the session hinges almost entirely on whether the governor puts his political muscle behind the effort in the way that he did on raising the minimum wage and paid family leave.»

Dawe and his team are optimistic that they will make progress by the end of their initial 18 - month project period, but whether their trials yield anything that can be scaled up on a meaningful level remains to be seen.

Phillips suggests limiting the power of «Internet trolls» — and encouraging meaningful conversation with the rest of the public — by deleting anything they (the trolls) post on your blog, banning them from your site, and using word filters.

Even at the age of 55, the 4 - minute warning seems inadequate to get anything meaningful done on the horizontal front: at least with global warming there is time for a little indulgence before we go.

At the Renfrew Center, she can easily spot patients who have been so focused on their looks that they've never bothered to invest in hobbies, like drawing or literature or pottery or anything they might have found meaningful.

You can personalize anything you want on them and keep them for yourself or give them as a meaningful gift to someone special in your life!

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.

, 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.

But on the whole, there is never anything in the way of meaningful introspection.

And right now I have five hours of it to burn before I can do anything meaningful in Dead Rising 2's $ 10 add - on title Case West.

With the NEA opposed to meaningful accountability, genuine school choice, and anything resembling merit pay, politicians have little to gain from trumpeting reforms that might get schools back on track.

On the topic of communicating student achievement, the academic said «we've actually basically lied to parents that the information we're giving them is useful and meaningful... these grades that we give to students, really don't tell parents anything at all».

But meaningful parental involvement in a «reform» planning process doesn't happen when you don't give notice of the meeting, don't have anything relevant for parents to comment on, and don't give a presentation that is substantive.

With students seated on the rug, the teacher tells students, «Please include words or drawings to represent anything that is meaningful to you, special talents you might have, or your accomplishments.

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.

If the markets aren't doing anything meaningful and there are no obvious setups from key levels or with trends, then close up your charts and get on with your day.

I hate to portray scores as a meaningful metric, but they're useful to illustrate a point: anything short of amazing for Final Fantasy XV is going to be viewed as a disappointment, but I hold on to my hope.

Does simply asking people if they're happy on a survey measure anything meaningful?

Of course, as they point out «because rainfall is such a variable element, trend values are highly dependent on the start and end dates of the analysis» and the fact they are simply using linear interpolation it is very difficult to derive anything meaningful in terms of climate change from just one map.

What I'm ready to say and what's more meaningful for me to comment is that I don't believe that anything essential is left hidden or that any significant errors in data based on instrumental records were left uncovered by the questionable actions.

See it as curious, and swiftly move on to something meaningful, as LOD variations do not force or drive anything.

Couple that with the limited growth potential of CO2 concentrations and growing biological response (which likely lags concentration growth), and it doesn't even seem plausible that warming will be a net cost on a meaningful time scale (hey anything is possible — maybe there are temporary climate regimes where even mild ghe produces worse weather which we just haven't experienced yet — eg a portion of the - PDO phase).

Bottom line is your SWAG on the above is probably more meaningful than anything NASA or other more mainstream sources could put out these days... and I'd be privileged and appreciative of any thoughts you might share on the above.

Take your pick — oil shales in the US, Orinoco heavy from VZ, Madagascar, offshore Brazil — these all trump anything renewable on a cost basis today without a meaningful carbon price, and so with KXL blocked, that's what will fill the void, which is the point of my piece.

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.

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.

So perhaps people, and particularly lawyers, should at least consider clicking on the T&C links on the Web sites we use for anything meaningful?

It can present itself in a number of different ways: 1) not listening to or learning from others on the committee, quickly discounting their point of view; 2) dismissing what other competitive firms are doing as not meaningful or valuable; and 3) strongly believing that we have to have the perfect answer before we do anything — perfectionism before action.

«Viv has been demonstrated as a very clever assistant that understands complex multipart questions as well as context, but Samsung will be unable to do anything meaningful with this functionality on Android devices.»

Although it doesn't innovate on the gameplay in any meaningful way, it's as well - designed as anything in the series and fans will enjoy facing new challenges in the streets of Karnaca.

The University has still asked high schools to report incidents where students have practiced responsible citizenship by engaging in peaceful, meaningful protest related to this (or any other) issue but it does not hold «such conduct on its face as inappropriate or inconsistent with their prior conduct, or anything we wouldn't applaud amongst our own students, it will not negatively impact their admissions outcome,» he added.

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.

If anything, the bass feels a little more rounder than it was on the previous version although not necessarily to any meaningful degree.

A firm believer that PMO s should be enablers of progress, not a bureaucratic entity that will count, measure anything and everything just because it can be; producing reams of reports that contain pages and pages of data as opposed to meaningful information for the actual intended audience; imposing an overhead of 7 % -10 % on otherwise productive Project Management time filling out redundant templates.

In a non-election year it's hard enough for the U.S. Congress to get anything done, and now that we're quickly approaching the midterm elections, progress on meaningful legislation is next to impossible.