Sentences with phrase «as economic significance»

And while people in Oaxaca today rely largely on meat from animals brought over by the Spanish (like chicken, beef, and pork), turkeys have much greater antiquity in the region and still have great ritual as well as economic significance today.»

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And fiscal policy, finally, takes on new significance as a tool in economic stabilization.

Though the US yield curve remained some way from inversion — which historically is often cited as signaling an impending recession — investors were relatively sanguine about the significance of its flattening, with many arguing that low long - term yields were more reflective of central - bank policies and the weak inflationary environment than dimmer economic prospects.

As the premier economic co-operation forum in the Asia Pacific region, APEC is where the greater strides will be made, where efforts to build on the TPP will take place, and where the geopolitical significance of the TPP will play out.

So Mr. George Henry Soule says of the Puritan revolution in the sixteenth century: «The conflict of religious ideas was indeed important, but it was important not so much because of the abstract significance of these ideas as because they represented the mechanism of attack and defense between economic and social classes who were struggling for power.»

In order to make certain that such statements as these should have more than ephemeral significance, it was proposed that the International Missionary Council should establish, as a part of its organization, a «bureau of social and economic research and information» on problems arising from the contact between Western civilization and undeveloped countries.

In May 2015 under the Turkey Presidency, the G20 agriculture ministers highlighted the extent of food loss and waste (FLW) as «a global problem of enormous economic, environmental and societal significance» and encouraged all G20 members to strengthen their collective efforts to prevent and reduce FLW.

The G20 agriculture ministers highlighted the extent of food loss and waste (FLW) as «a global problem of enormous economic, environmental and societal significance» and encouraged all G20 members to strengthen their collective efforts to reduce FLW.

The China phenomenon is frequently depicted at official and unofficial levels as having put European - US ties under strain, mostly arising from a confluence of the growing significance of Asia in US economic and strategic policy; Europe's political and economic malaise; and China's more confident and assertive external policies that include the prospect of enhanced financial and economic ties between major European countries and China.

Cuomo's GOTV effort has also taken on a bit more significance now that he's facing a GOP nominee who won his own primary by a wide margin, fueled by upstate economic anger and an organic base stemming in part from his role as an employer in Western New York.

The Coalition has created new human rights resources for science and engineering associations, tools for human rights organizations that seek to incorporate science and technology in their work, increased awareness of the opportunities for scientists and engineers to contribute to human rights, and advanced international discussions regarding the significance of the right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications, as guaranteed in Article 15 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

However, the relative significance of farming has dropped steadily since the beginning of industrialization, and in 2006 — for the first time in history — the services sector overtook agriculture as the economic sector employing the most people worldwide.

As per the American Statistical Association's (ASA) recently released «Statement on P - Values,» statistical significance «is not equivalent to scientific, human, or economic significance... Any effect, no matter how tiny, can produce a small p - value [i.e., «statistical significance»] if the sample size or measurement precision is high enough» (p. 10); hence, one must always check for practical significance when making claims about statistical significance, like Kane et al. actually do here, but do here in a similar inflated vein.

This will allow providing supporting evidence to consolidate tourism's economic significance, as well as its social impacts, potential, and future prospects.

The atoll is of significant economic and sociological significance to Belize as a major commercial fishery and ecotourism center.

Tan asks whether the act of collecting could truly capture the past, or serve as a viable strategy to interact with the present — questions injected with contemporary significance by evocations of post-2008 economic instability.

The evidence for this widespread failure to understand the practical significance of seeing climate change as a moral issue includes the almost universal failure of the press or advocates of climate change policies to ask those governments, businesses, organizations, or individuals who oppose national climate change policies on the grounds of national economic cost alone whether they deny that in addition to national economic interest nations must comply with their obligations, duties, and responsibilities to prevent harm to millions of poor, vulnerable people around the world.

A major significance for policy of understanding climate change as a moral and justice issue, is that nations may not look at economic self - interest alone in formulating policies, they must consider their ethical and moral obligations to those who are most vulnerable to climate change.

My main contributions, as an economic policy adviser, were three-fold: to help ensure that the model was correctly specified to address the issue in question; to understand the economic policy significance of the results; and to present them cogently to decision - makers (ministers, heads of department et al.) The modellers themselves weren't always too good at (2) and (3).

The evidence for this widespread failure to understand the practical significance of seeing climate change as a moral issue includes the almost universal failure of the press or advocates of climate change policies to ask businesses, organizations, or individuals who oppose national climate change policies on the grounds of economic cost alone, whether they deny that, in addition to economic interests, nations must comply with their obligations, duties, and responsibilities to prevent harm to millions of poor, vulnerable people around the world.

But as economist Dierdre McCloskey likes to point out, mere statistical significance should never be a substitute for «economic significance» (or «climatological significance» in the present context).

, and since he knows that individual realisations of the GISS model come up with fits to the «socio - economic» variables as good as he has calculated in the real world, the practical significance of these continued variations is zero.

Known as the «Crossroads of New England,» West Springfield, MA is a town full of historical significance, economic stability and family - friendly attractions.

The Ministry's Software Services Division Director Xie Shaofeng is quoted in an official press release as saying that the world is in the process of a new «technological revolution» and the blockchain technology and «its application has universal significance in promoting economic and social development.»

The economic significance of these rights was identified by the Attorney - General and the Minster for Families, Housing and Community Services and Indigenous Affairs as a reason for the recent discussion paper on how to improve the benefits that flow from agreements made through this system.

6.2 That governments fully recognise the significance of water to Indigenous peoples and incorporate their distinct rights, including as water users, to water, the environment, economic development, participation and engagement into the Water Act 2007.

The Commission notes that the economic significance of these rights has been identified by the Attorney - General and the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs as a reason for the this Discussion Paper on how to improve the benefits that flow from agreements made through this system.

«These transactions demonstrate the significance of Lower Manhattan's economic advantage as businesses capitalize on the substantial discount in downtown's rents,» said Ric Clark, Brookfield president and CEO, in a statement.