Sentences with phrase «bear little influence»

Not exact matches

The countryside I traversed had little natural beauty, and most of the wild animals had been killed during the civil war; the souvenirs were five times as expensive as similar items in other countries; the Portuguese - influenced food was bland and boring; and when I asked for a doggie bag to take my leftovers back to my hotel, I got charged five dollars for the bag.

Nevertheless, while the post-1972 federal taxation system bears little resemblance to that advocated in the Carter report, the report's influence is reflected in the partial taxation of capital gains and changes in tax administration.

In that little church, the person who most influenced my life was not the minister, an English - born Congregationalist, but his equally English wife, Mrs. Tudor.

«Clearly there is little consensus about the appropriate policy for treating infants born at low gestational ages, and yet hospital practices regarding the initiation of active intervention have a dramatic influence on rates of survival and survival without impairment,» wrote Neil Marlow, D.M., University College London, in an NEJM editorial that accompanied the research paper.

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There's little doubt, then, that it's John Carpenter's stylish direction that prevents the picture from becoming an all - out bore, as the green filmmaker injects the overly - familiar proceedings with appreciative bursts of style and it's clear immediately that Carpenter has been heavily influenced by Alfred Hitchcock's body of work (the North by Northwest - like open credits, the Rear Window-esque storyline, etc, etc).

At his best, Verhoeven has always compartmentalized his inspirations rather uniquely, so he creatively crafts a fresh experience that stands on its own, but Elle bears a little too much resemblance to its cinematic influences.

Taking all these results together, one implication stands out above all: That schools bring little influence to bear on a child's achievement that is independent of his background and general social context; and that this very lack of an independent effect means that the inequalities imposed on children by their home, neighborhood, and peer environment are carried along to become the inequalities with which they confront adult life at the end of school.

The major take away from this report was captured by this conclusion: «That schools bring little influence to bear on a child's achievement that is independent of his background and general social context».

The major takeaway from this report was captured by this conclusion: «Schools bring little influence to bear on a child's achievement that is independent of his background and general social context».

What's intriguing about the wall of influences is how little bearing they have on how Schloss's mature works actually look.

«For a great artist, he made remarkably little good art,» wrote the New Yorker's Peter Schjeldahl, who went on to celebrate a «brainstorming excitement» that «caught a wave of history» and bore lasting influence.

«Generally speaking, there is nothing that has been done since Duchamp that doesn't bear a little bit of his influence.

In my mind equilibrium climate sensitivity has little bearing on the influence of CO2 when Earth is as seriously out of equilibrium as at present.