Sentences with phrase «at least some influence on»

There aren't any experience points and your character never permanently becomes any stronger, but it's hard to imagine that the game didn't have at least some influence on action - RPGs to follow.

Not exact matches

'' [Apple COO] Jeff [Williams] has asked me to lead the thinking (or at least the conversation) on the intersection of the regulatory landscape (as it currently exists and where we hope we might be able to influence its movement) and our products and platforms,» Robin Goldstein, a special projects attorney for Apple, said in an email seen by MobiHealthNews.

According to a study by Michael Norton of Harvard Business School and two colleagues from the University of British Columbia, the amount of money people earn has less influence on their happiness than how they spend it, and those who spend at least some of their money on others are happier than those who do not.

But Gates and his predecessors at least agreed to play by certain rules: not to take the money back if they changed their minds, not to use it to further increase their wealth, not to use it influence the political system (although that rule has some loopholes), and so on,» Kwak explains.

For black men, though, the challenges of the corporate life are daunting at least in part because they are sometimes hard to pin down — influenced as much by age - old prejudice as by cultural preconceptions, the subtleties of psychology, and the weight of human history (more on that soon).

At least on Wall Street you have multiple firms providing ratings and vying for influence, in the mutual fund world however there is really only one firm.

ARKK's performance in 2017 was at least partially driven by its allocation to the Bitcoin Investment Trust and the notorious «FANG» stocks (Facebook, Apple, Netflix and Google / Alphabet) that have recently had so much influence on the direction of the U.S. stock market.

The undue influence that an underwriter can potentially place on research, even when it is unspoken, at least appeared to be on display around this high - profile deal.

Even limited religious influence on politics is something at least I want to prevent as far as possible.

The presence of other divergences too (David Moss's luminous piece on friendship stands very well alone), the dispersal of the group on both sides of the Atlantic, and the fact that some members are already deep into other conversations all suggest that as a movement it will (at least in Britain) either fragment or at best fare like feminist, liberation and nonrealist theologies, and have its main influence as a point of reference and interrogation.

In the name of stability of life and values, our children are presented with role models of adults who (at least on the surface) make every effort to block out the feelings and influence of the child.

which influence present behavior profoundly, the facilitator puts at least equal emphasis on the present and the future: What do you want and hope for?

Given Brundage's hands - on supervision of all aspects of the Olympics, many believe he influenced the coaches to rearrange the relay team, and at least one may have been predisposed to agree (Cromwell became an American Firster, too).

at least we know that the sports team really exists and our «worship» (cheering) may actually have an influence on the team's performance!

Yahweh in hebrew means my Lord and is a common reference meaning supreme God.In the bible satan is referred specifically as the adversary in hebrew or slanderer in greek its quite clear there is no confusion.Satan is not in the same league as God he is sovereign in fact God has satan on a leash and limits his control particularly over his people as we read in Job.Christians need to realise that satan can influence us if we walk according to the flesh.In the case of David calling a cencus meant he gave in to his pride he wanted to know how many soldiers he had believing numbers would give him the upper hand and so Satan took advantage of his weakness and Davids choice displeased God.David of all people should have known as he as a young man had defeated goliath a mighty warrior and it was because of his faith and trust in God that he overcame.But it wasnt God that made David make that decision it was his own and satan tempted him and he gave in to that desire In the two verses there is no confusion if you understand how God and satan operate i did at one stage have the same issue with Jesus sending the demons into the pigs why would he help satan or at least it appeared that way?

«If an atheist who grew up without any type of influence on religion» — I don't think this is possible in our country at least.

Specific notions of deity, and of divine action, that have figured in theistic conceptual systems of long - past civilizations have certainly been influenced by then - prevailing technology — the ways in which people made their living.5 In our own time, recent developments in technology and in science have had major influence on how the object of religion is conceived, at least for some theists.6 Whitehead wrote:

Should one not at least acknowledge the influence of Edward Young's Night Thoughts on Novalis» Hymns to the Night, or that of Burke's Reflections on Novalis's political theory?

That said, we do have free will, however it also appears that God often greatly influences our free choices by doing things like «hardening» our hearts — at least if scripture is to be believed on this.

There is at least a possibility that forms of influence may be exerted by one person on another without any of the modes of mediation now known.

Boyagoda deftly traces the manifold careers of Richard Neuhaus, from the stringencies of a Depression boyhood (in 1936, when Richard was born, his father made do on $ 81 a month) through a poor inner - city church in Brooklyn to the corridors of, if not power, exactly, at least influence in the world's omphalos, Manhattan.

One might be tempted to argue at this point that we have discerned the transforming influence of the cosmology of «emergent evolution» at least on Whitehead's thinking.

But, regardless of its actual author, classicists all acknowledge that the Hippocratic Oath dates back at least to the fourth century b.c. and marks the moment when» thanks to Hippocrates» influence on his many students and apprentices» medicine separated itself from magic and pledged itself to preserving life.

That momentous transition had at least as much influence on the dynamics of family life and the shape of twentieth - century feminism as the later move to the suburbs.

While this final indicator can be criticized as being subjective (at least on the part of the legal scholar, if not on the part of those who appended the labels on each country's legal system), it is worth pointing out that as only one of eight indicators, this one influences the index very little.

The fact that a time had arrived when at least one man was to «prefer a popular lectureship even to a bishopric» 72 was quite as much a commentary on the decline of the episcopal office in public esteem at is was an indication of the prestige and influence associated with an important preaching post.

It is difficult to put all the evidence in such a matter into words, to gather up into a distinct statement all that one bases one's conclusions on, but I have always felt that I had abundant evidence to justify (to myself, at least) the conclusion that I came to then, and since have held to, that the physical change which came at that time was, first, the result of a change wrought within me by a change of mental state; and secondly, that that change of mental state was not, save in a very secondary way, brought about through the influence of an excited imagination, or a consciously received suggestion of an hypnotic sort.

One may suggest at least three topologies that have influenced modern thinking on this: Humans above nature; humans in nature, and humans with nature.

It's clear that even if Mertesacker doesn't have an immediate role to return to in the team when he recovers from injury, then at least he still has a massive influence on the players through his leadership qualities.

If this story about Arsenal sending Mesut Ozil off to the international break with Germany carrying a knee problem that he may have been carrying during the Premier League clash with Chelsea on Sunday is true, it would at least answer the questions about why our 25 - year old playmaker seemed to struggle to influence the game in the same way as the Chelsea midfielders Eden Hazard and Cesc Fabregas did.

At least, the derby is one game United can directly influence and there is no doubt the fans will be out to roar the Reds on to a famous victory.

At least in India, businesses are exerting greater influence on the Indian govt to ban or block these sources.

He had 15 months of being at least as hands - on as I was, and I think that's still a major influence on our relationship and my identity as a mother.

This blend has been used safely by at least 50 postpartum breastfeeding moms without any influence on breastmilk.

Specifically, I got the impression that the EC members were supposed to exercise some sort of double - check on the candidate's validity, character and legal qualifications (e.g. lack of conflicts - of - interest) and thereby moderate the influence of pure populism on the outcome, at least to some extent.

It found that 56 % consider themselves to be of no religion (versus 28 % Christian); 56 % never attend a church or place of worship (versus 5 % attending at least weekly); 57 % saying they do not believe in a God (versus 25 % saying they do); and 53 % said religious leaders have no influence on their lives (versus 12 % saying they have a lot or a fair amount of influence).

Whilst his father was noted for his public restraint, our new King has spoken out on many issues — feeling, perhaps, that if he will be denied influence whilst in office, he should at least be allowed to express his views like any other citizen.

Part of making politics more sophisticated is admitting that when your party is in power as a junior partner in a coalition government, that it may have to support things that as a party it doesn't corporately agree with to gain influence on less palatable elements of the bigger partner's agenda and to implement at least part of its own.

Instead phrases like «the scrub jay wants to do this, decides that this is the right time,» and so on, are shorthand for the more correct but cumbersome, «Over the course of evolution, scrub jays who, at least in part through genetically influenced mechanisms, are better able to optimize the timing of their behavior leave more copies of their genes, thus making this attribute more prevalent in the population.»

The assaults that this most fundamental theory of reality makes on our intuition are legion: particles that exist as probabilistic wave functions in «superpositions» of multiple states or places, or at least seem to as long you don't look at them; «entangled» particles that influence each other over vast distances of space when you measure one of them.

In «Linguistic Perspectives on Early Population Migrations and Language Contact in the Americas,» Sicoli shows how big data analyses point to the existence of at least three now - extinct languages of earlier migrations that influenced existing Dene and Aleut languages as they moved to the Alaska coast.

Even though we scientists and engineers pride ourselves on our discipline and objectivity, we all know that subjectivity influences how we interpret data (at least at first).

According to a new study, the heavy shaking in the so - called Kaikōura quake was amassed by ruptures on at least 12 different faults, in some cases so far apart that they were thought to be immune to each other's influence.

A multidisciplinary team led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Dr. Chuck Long found that, at least in the continental United States, changes in clouds and cloudiness have a greater influence on brightening than any decrease in aerosol amounts alone.

Recent genetic association studies identified variants in a locus on chromosome 15 (specifically, in the adjacent genes HERC2 and OCA2) that are major determinants of eye color, but the trait is influenced by interaction among at least ten different genes.

With these mouse models, the main influence on atherosclerosis has been found to be dietary cholesterol rather than the level of fat (42 - 44), but certain threshold levels of dietary cholesterol may exist at least within the context of a low - fat purified diet (45).

«And those results can influence patients behavior and incur, at the very least, a financial and emotional toll on them if they act on it.»

For me, this is ironic because most of us are aware, at least on a conceptual level, that the microflora residing in the gut are well documented to have a powerful influence on the health and well - being of many organ systems outside the gut.

So at my last consultation with my specialist she had told me that it was puzzling to her on why IF (intermittent fasting) might have such an influence but I should «keep doing what I am doing there...» Meaning keep fasting hard at least 20/4 and she gave me 4 more weeks or I would have to stop the chemo altogether to prevent me from getting leukaemia if things would not get better.

The researchers noted that the participants» age may have a strong influence on the results, at least in part because of their adherence to more traditional gender roles.