Sentences with phrase «appreciable effect»

The two extra gears have little appreciable effect on performance, but they improve fuel economy by 1 mile per gallon.

The only appreciable effect of these losses was getting less ammo packs or fewer grenades or lose the ability to call in airstrikes.

Here, the Commission defines market shares below which agreements are considered not to have appreciable effects on competition.

Three hundred years earlier, in the time of Galileo, the end of geocentrism had intrigued or disturbed thinking minds without having any appreciable effect on the mass of people.

Because the number of home births in the U.S. is small, the inclusion of prenatal stillbirths, congenital anomalies and unplanned, unattended home births in the «home midwife» category is likely to have an appreciable effect on the negative outcomes examined here.

The subway system's decline has had an appreciable effect on the city's economy — a study by the Independent Budget Office last fall found that the constant delays cost residents about $ 864,000 per day in lost wages, and a study by Comptroller Scott Stringer's office noted that the figure could add up to $ 389 million per year if the transit system is not brought into a state of good repair.

Problem is there was a so - called assault weapons ban that was enacted some years ago during the Clinton administration, and what the Justice Department found when they did a study of this after about 10 years of experience they found it had no appreciable effect upon the incidence of gun violence in our country.

Now waves have a certain wavelength, and common experience of such waves as may be seen, for example, on the surface of the sea tells us that an object which is very much smaller than the length of the wave has no appreciable effect upon it.

The researchers then found that, while the drug continued to inhibit FGFR activity in the resistant cells, its inhibition of FGFR signaling had no appreciable effect on the cells» survival.

As this pressure is very weak, the process relies on large grains of dust, to ensure a broad enough surface area to have an appreciable effect [2].

Unfortunately, however, those enzymes haven't been very effective — a huge amount of them would be required in order to have an appreciable effect.

Or will eating before training have no appreciable effect on your performance or results?

I worked with some of the sequences and variations for several months with no appreciable effect.

Cold showers arent effective because the duration is too short to have any appreciable effect on the energy balance.

Artificial light impacts nearly every biological system, and it doesn't even take very much to have an appreciable effect (think: checking your smart phone or watching a television show on your iPad in bed at night).

The year I was to be laid off from teaching (because of a reduction in student enrollment), the school's reading specialist came by to let me know that whatever I had been doing in one of my composition classes was having an appreciable effect on the students» reading development.

Including these observed teacher traits in the analysis had no appreciable effect on the performance gains associated with assignment to a teacher of the same race.

As the privatizing reforms grew in scope and gathered in intensity, the lack of evidence that these reforms had an appreciable effect on student achievement or that they mitigated inequality [20] didn't deter the Gates, Walton, and Broad Foundations, among others, from aggressively selling their basket of favored neo-liberal reforms.

Even the thickness of the head gasket has an appreciable effect.

With the refreshed 6's G - Vectoring Control (GVC) there's no discernible torque steer, the wheel spin has no appreciable effect on the car's demeanour, the axle tramp fails to materialise, and you find yourself easing off lock as the car tracks towards the inside of the corner.

Hmmm, I thought that fluids were essentially incompressible, so how can a larger atmosphere column have any appreciable effect on sea - levels?

Raising the alarm about climate change has been tried before, many times in fact, but it has not had an appreciable effect on greenhouse gas emissions.

The Government has criticised the Kyoto Protocol for not going far enough yet its own answer will have no appreciable effect.

Nothing Australia does will have any appreciable effect on atmospheric temperatures that might cause net damage to Australians» welfare (or anyone else's) or on sea levels which might be bad for Australia; 3.

The 1992 Framework Convention is the mother treaty for the Kyoto Protocol, and the latter was agreed 1997 because it was accepted that the voluntary measures set out on the Convention had failed to have any appreciable effect on the growth of greenhouse gas emissions.

The first is that they take quite a while to have an appreciable effect on CO2 concentrations.

Where the top down approach focused on legally binding emissions targets and timetables has had no appreciable effect on global emissions, a bottom up bilateral and multilateral approach focused on real commitments to put clean energy infrastructure in the ground might begin to move the needle.

Most disturbing is the finding that there is no need to demonstrate an appreciable effect on the market under Article 102 TFEU.

In any event, as pointedly stressed by Whish (see here), the demonstration of appreciable effects is a ubiquitous requirement in EU competition law; there is no convincing reason to move away from it in the context of Article 102 TFEU.

For an agreement to be anti-competitive it must have an appreciable effect on competition.

The Supreme Court's decision today will have no appreciable effect on that.

Upon reviewing the available evaluation evidence, he came to the conclusion that: ``... with few and isolated exceptions, the rehabilitative efforts that have been reported so far have had no appreciable effect on recidivism» (1974: 25).

In these states, the fact that the custodial parent's income is equal would have no appreciable effect.