Sentences with phrase «at least some extent by»

There's no denying the fact that most people are motivated to at least some extent by food, so use this to your advantage.

Not exact matches

Quite apart from the argument over OSFI - style oversight, the former federal official and others stress this segment of the market at least requires more transparency and clearer data so regulators and the Bank of Canada can better understand the credit landscape and the extent of high - risk loans issued by private lenders.

There is a second role which is picking up the types of criminal enforcement that have at least to some extent normally been done by federal prosecutors office.

In furtherance of this requirement, section 2 (c) of Executive Order 13771 requires that the new incremental costs associated with new regulations shall, to the extent permitted by law, be offset by the elimination of existing costs associated with at least two prior regulations.

Also, if a majority of the Board is comprised of persons other than (i) persons for whose election proxies were solicited by the Board; or (ii) persons who were appointed by the Board to fill vacancies caused by death or resignation or to fill newly - created directorships («Board Change»), unless the Committee or Board determines otherwise prior to such Board Change, then participants immediately prior to the Board Change who cease to be employees or non-employee directors within six months after such Board Change for any reason other than death or permanent disability generally have their (i) options and stock appreciation rights become immediately exercisable and to the extent not canceled or cashed out, generally have at least six months to exercise such awards; (ii) restrictions with respect to restricted stock and RSRs lapse and generally shares are delivered; and (iii) performance shares and performance units pay out pro rata based on performance through the end of the last calendar quarter before the time the participant ceased to be an employee.

Therefore, whether current households suffer from inter-generational inequity depends on whether one believes that the average size of houses is a free individual choice or, at least to some extent, is being imposed by the construction industry and society more generally.

The only tactic not employed — at least to some extent — by a majority of the CEOs surveyed is «relocating operations close to talent pools».

But overall demand growth has remained quite strong, boosted to some extent by temporary pre-GST spending, and by public - sector expenditure which, at least as recorded in the national accounts, has also expanded quite quickly.

The present ruling does raise a novel (at least to the extent not already covered by Châteauguay) point of law, which is the circumstances under which delay can serve as a trigger to render a municipal or provincial regulatory requirement inoperative or inapplicable.

And it will be suspicious, a bit less so, of the theology of the marginals, at least to the extent that it is defined negatively by the margin that separates it from the center.

The evidence of the Rabbinical literature, which is mostly of late date and uniformly hostile to Christianity, adds little of historical worth, but confirms that Jews who became Christians formed a community to some extent separate from other Jews, and by the end of the first century at least were regarded as heretics.

Partly by the subtle influence of a partly Christian civilization and partly by processes of inner development analogous to that in which Christianity itself arose, Western Jews, at least, have already to a large extent entered into spiritual existence.

Policy - making in media regulation, particularly in the U.S. and to a large extent also in Australia, proceeds generally by forming, or at least undergirding, political decisions on the same «objective» and «scientific» basis developed for less ambiguous areas such as public engineering, economics, and regulation of public safety.

This much at least may be conceded, that along with the academic tradition of detached secular study of religion, there is growing in both Christendom and elsewhere a religiously related scholarship of religious diversity.30 To some extent in the future these studies, it would seem, are to be carried out by religious people for religious people.

Wenger's record in the competition, winning it five times since taking charge of the club in 1996, backs up his words, reported by ESPN, to some extent at least.

Assuming «not natural» means «made by people» then plastic clearly is, because we do the manufacturing, and, to the extent it compares to natural plastics (polymers, at least), that process has no comparison.

The budget that passed did contain new ethics measures, which at least to some extent, requires more disclosures of outside income by lawmakers.

Men dominate S&E professorships, regardless of field and race.10 Among the top 50 universities in chemistry, physics, computer science, mathematics, and engineering, at least 69 % (most times this number is much higher) of the professors are men, according to a report recently released by University of Oklahoma chemistry professor Dr. Donna Nelson.9 The lack of female professors was far greater among minority women.9 Although the number of master's degrees and doctorates increased for every racial and gender category, except for white males, 1 white — and, to a lesser extent, Asian — men constituted the clear majority of S&E graduate and faculty positions between 1990 and 1999.9

Newborn children of mothers who used SSRI drugs were also given low activity scores and they were twice as likely to end up in intensive care than other newborns; however, these changes can likely be explained by the mother's depression at least to some extent.

They believe that the threats posed from ocean acidification (OA) and ocean warming can, at least to some extent, be balanced by adaptation and evolution.

By the late 1990s, the extent of sea ice had fallen to its lowest level for at least 1400 years.

The extent to which traditional dietary items may mitigate inflammation and oxidative stress may be controlled, at least to some degree, by microbiota.

It is also becoming increasingly clear that the extent to which phytochemical absorption can provide systemic antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activity is controlled, at least to some degree, by resident intestinal microbiota [82 — 84].

The fact that cancer began rising in the vegetable oil group in the last few years of the study — again, despite the heavy rate of smoking and deficient intake of vitamin E in the control group — suggests that the full extent of the ravages of oxidative stress and inflammation caused by vegetable oils takes at least five years to develop.

Eating starch and therefore a bolus of glucose will, at least to some extent, by spiking blood glucose, insulin, and leptin, mimic the stress response.

This is complemented by the experience system (Which I've no idea why it is not in Quest mode) that makes use of the list of perks you've unlocked in the aforementioned Quest stages to reward you with extra abilities that can radically change the way you play the game (Again, why was this not implemented, at least to a lesser extent, in the Quest mode?!)

Finland is able to meet the needs of high - ability students, to some extent at least, by employing «exceptionally well - prepared teachers whose skills include the capacity to differentiate their instruction according to the needs, capacities, and prior achievement of their pupils.»

Tablets are now being used, at least to some extent, in 68 % of primary and 69 % of secondary schools, according to the study headed by Barbie Clarke of the Family, Kids and Youth research group.

Resolved, that upon the recommendation of the Superintendent, the person (s) certified as listed below is (are) appointed to the administrative tenure area and the assignment shown, with the effective date, probationary period and salary stated, and that such person (s) shall be eligible for tenure upon completion of the probationary period subject to the Board of Education's unfettered right to deny tenure and, to the extent required by Education Law Section 3012 with respect to building principals, the requirement that such person (s) receive at least three (3) Effective APPR ratings within the four (4) years prior to consideration for tenure and do not receive an Ineffective rating in the final probationary year.

As such, the way things stand right now can be like this, we may have mobile devices with the most vivid of displays, have considerable amount of processing power at disposal along with enough of storage to boot though almost all of the feats have been nulled to some extent at least by a limited power source.

Additionally, you may want to consider maintaining at least a minimal qualified retirement plan account balance because, in the event you want to transfer or rollover qualified assets to your qualified retirement plan account in the future, to the extent it is allowed by your plan, your plan may require you to have an open account with a balance when your request is received by that plan.

I take it that an objective in management of Index Funds and also Index ETFs is to have as little trading in the underlying securities take place as possible, at least to the extent that the trading would be driven by market «noise» such trading would add to expenses of the funds and possibly capital gains again Gus Sauter's proprietary stuff?

Records substantiate the existence of short, square, «under the table» dogs from at least 1000 B.C.. By piecing together historical facts and documented records, it is possible to some extent to follow the development in China of the breeding of dogs likely to be the ancestors of the present - day Shih Tzu.

To be clear, I have played the Metal Gear Solid games, at least to the extent that I know they're not for me but can appreciate why they're regarded as much loved by others.

We wanted to create a campaign that will support our dealers and drive more traffic to their stores, which is something that has never been done by a supplier in our industry, at least not to this extent.

2,» is approximately 9.5 by 13 feet, and the full extent of the damages done to it are unknown but reparations are estimated to cost at least $ 10,000.

By the same token, the exhibition will feature a selection of classic, already extent works as well as at least a dozen new commissions made especially for the Lulennial.

This was a separate negotiation track initiated by President Bush in 2007 and aimed at making sure China and other emerging powers pony up as well — at least to the extent they can.]

There can / will be local and regional, latitudinal, diurnal and seasonal, and internal variability - related deviations to the pattern (in temperature and in optical properties (LW and SW) from components (water vapor, clouds, snow, etc.) that vary with weather and climate), but the global average effect is at least somewhat constrained by the global average vertical distribution of solar heating, which requires the equilibrium net convective + LW fluxes, in the global average, to be sizable and upward at all levels from the surface to TOA, thus tending to limit the extent and magnitude of inversions.)

Physiologically probably not - at least only to the extent that physiological response may be determined by the particular environment and climate conditions usually experienced.

The region's sea ice extent — defined by NSIDC as the total area covered by at least 15 percent of ice — varies from year to year because of changeable weather conditions.

Passive cooling and natural ventilation have the potential to reduce mechanical system demand by at least 30 to 50 percent, and to an even greater extent if appropriate fenestration and sun shading strategies are employed.

«Though most of the CMIP5 models project a nearly ice - free Arctic (sea ice extent less than 1 × 106 km2 for at least 5 consecutive years) at the end of summer by 2100 in the RCP8.5 scenario...»

Though most of the CMIP5 models project a nearly ice - free Arctic (sea ice extent less than 1 × 106 km2 for at least 5 consecutive years) at the end of summer by 2100 in the RCP8.5 scenario (see Section 12.4.6.1), some show large changes in the near term as well.

«CMIP5 models project a nearly ice - free Arctic (sea ice extent less than 1 × 10 ^ 6 km2 for at least 5 consecutive years) at the end of summer by 2100 in the RCP8.5 scenario... «Assume a 15 km2 million max and 3 km2 million min.

Should be some interesting climate - related stories coming along soon; sea - ice minimum is coming soon, and will be at least the 3rd - lowest ever by extent, probably 2nd - lowest by area.

But we will be saved to some extent at least initially by the ocean heat bank which is much higher than around 1940.

«But it does enhance our understanding of interactions between plate tectonics, Earth's climate system, its oceans, and even how the evolution of life is, at least to some extent, driven by this tidal process.»

Lead by Brazil, which had the lowest extent of deforestation since at least the 1980s, global forest loss likely declined to its lowest level in more than a decade.

Else, there needs to be an admission that perhaps the Earth has a propensity to increase cooling feedbacks to at least some extent to mitigate the rise brought on by continuing AGW forces.