Sentences with phrase «by small degrees»

When in 4WD Lock mode, torque at the rear wheels is reduced by a smaller degree through corners than with 4WD Auto mode.

Not exact matches

But as opposing experts (and a small army of writers) feud over the issue here in the United States, across the pond several top universities are eliminating the underlying logic of the argument by creating programs to help budding business owners get their start - up dreams off the ground — while they get their degrees.

By looking at Slack's Growth Score, sales teams might have understood, to some degree, the direction Slack was going in, and poured more efforts into prioritizing that seemingly small prospect.

Core inflation has been lower than expected in recent months... Core inflation is expected to increase gradually over coming quarters, reaching 2 per cent by the middle of 2013 as the economy gradually absorbs the current small degree of slack, the growth of labour compensation remains moderate and inflation expectations stay well anchored.

For turnover in FX derivatives, several things stand out (Graph 4): (i) activity has generally risen over the past decade even when scaled by a measure of cross-border transactions; (ii) developed Asian markets stand out as having a high degree of turnover; (iii) there was a particularly strong increase in turnover in these markets between 2013 and 2016; and (iv) FX derivatives turnover in emerging Asian economies has also increased significantly in the past few years, but remains a small part of the global market.

The oppressed have no other way of protesting their human right to live; and they think, too, that by rebelling they can change their situation for the better, if only to some small degree.

Sure, some Christians «think for themselves» but, at least in some small degree, they rely on poems and fairy tales and, critically, what they are told by others are the «rules», to guide their behavior.

Formed in 1961 by a merger of Unitarians and Universalists, this relatively new denomination is small (its membership peaked at slightly above 200,000 during the bulge of the «60s); wealthy (43 per cent of its members earn more than $ 25,000 a year); and highly educated (42 per cent of them have at least a master's degree).

Occasionally, in small groups, someone's circuits are overloaded by anxiety or too much confrontation (in relation to the degree of trust present).

Some examples: that «every single organic being around us may be said to be striving to the utmost to increase its numbers»; that «of the many individuals of any species which are periodically born, but a small number can survive»; that it is to a mother's «advantage» that her child should be adopted by another woman; that «no one is prepared to sacrifice his life for any single person, but... everyone will sacrifice it for more than two brothers, or four half - brothers or eight first cousins»; that «any variation in the least degree injurious [to a species] would be rigidly destroyed.»

Even within a small group comprising only a few members who are united by the bond of common religious experience, a certain degree of division of functions will exist.

First, several small but notable Christian colleges (unmentioned by Epstein) still promote the liberal arts through their rigorous core curriculums: Thomas Aquinas College (which offers one degree: B.A. in the liberal arts), the University of Dallas, and Calvin College all deserve mentions.

You can definitely limit the size of the church (in a healthy way) by making sure that you multiply small groups that grow beyond a specified size (18 - 20 works nice, at that point you are losing a degree of intimacy already) but more important you make sure that you cultivate the gifts needed to lead these groups — otherwise you end up with a bunch of small churches and a burned out pastor.

I made two smaller pizzas, lowering the temp by 25 degrees and cooking for 13 instead of 15 pizzas.

Homemade Pumpkin Puree (Yields about 1 - 2 cups, depending on size) Ingredients: 1 Sugar Pumpkin, small Directions: Preheat your oven to 375 degrees F Start by removing the top stem of the pumpkin.

For the crust: Preheat the oven to 340 degrees F. Break up the cookies into small pieces and press into a 9 - by -9-inch baking pan.

Start off by preheating the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit (180 degrees Celsius) and greasing a small round cake pan with a removable bottom.

As soon as the plants have perfected their seed - leaves, they should be planted singly into small pots, and these pots again immersed in the hot - bed, keeping them as near as convenient to the glass throughout the whole period of their growth, and shifting them frequently and by slow degrees till they arrive at a fruiting state.

The sweltering 95 degree heat might have kept the masses away from this small North Haven, CT show, but I was not disappointed by the crafters and jewelry found at the Jewelry Spectacular.

A Civil Eats piece written by Steve Holt last fall documents the ever - increasing number of college courses and formal degree programs focusing on the food system, a phenomenon which Holt says is «happening everywhere — from the coasts to small college towns and everywhere in between.»

And according to a SUNY spokeswoman, 83 percent of public college graduates already remain in the state after they receive their degree, so the potential number of students affected by the residency requirement would be relatively small.

And, according to a SUNY spokeswoman, 83 percent of public college graduates already remain in the state after they receive their degree anyway, so the potential number of students affected by the residency requirement would be small.

degree at the Weizmann Institute, «I discovered that I'm attracted by technology and biophysical methods and that I enjoyed collecting data and then putting the small pieces of information together [like] a puzzle,» Sharon says.

Small galaxies» visible gas may have been scoured away by million - degree coronas of nearby big galaxies

They found that our planet's tilt varied between only 10 and 50 degrees, a much smaller range than implied by the earlier study.

Phantom Terrains opens the door to this world to a small degree by tuning into these fields.

In essence, Tunnell's approach finds all such numbers up to some number N by expanding a polynomial of degree N. That's easy enough when N is small, like 10 or 20 or even 1000, but computationally demanding when N gets into the billions.

The techniques are, in a sense, complementary to the «global» methods which Penrose pioneered: they can not handle «generic» collapse, where there is no special degree of symmetry, but they do produce a more quantitative picture of what would happen if a black hole were perturbed (for instance, by, a smaller object falling into it or orbiting close to it).

In tests, the researchers dispersed nanodiamonds in mineral oil and found that a very small concentration — one - tenth of a percent by weight — raised the thermal conductivity of the oil by 70 percent at 373 kelvins (about 211 degrees Fahrenheit).

They found that of the three networks of sage - grouse priority areas — the Washington network, the Bi-State Network comprising California and Nevada, and the Central network, which is the largest and includes parts of ten states — only the priority areas of the Central network had a high degree of connectivity, and even there connectivity was dominated by a small number of large, centrally located sites.

Our Milky Way galaxy and its small companions are surrounded by a giant halo of million - degree gas (seen in blue in this artists» rendition) that is only visible to X-ray telescopes in space.

The study was performed in Kilpisjärvi in northwest Finland, where the research team tested the importance of grazing animals, warming and nutrient availability by combining small greenhouses that increased the summer temperature by 1 - 2 degrees Celsius, small fences that excluded reindeer, voles and lemmings, as well as by use of fertilization.

New Ph.D. researchers with «stronger academic ability,» as indicated by having received university support in the form of a fellowship or assistantship or by having at least one parent with a college degree (which, especially in poor or middle - income countries, places the family among an educated class that is much smaller than in a rich country) are likelier to stay than those who lack these presumed correlates of academic strength.

Each layer is rotated by a small angle from the layer below to eventually complete a 180 - degree rotation.

Naturally this article fails to mention that since the hydrosphere is 271 times as massive as the atmosphere, if oceans are absorbing the heat they are likely to moderate AGW into a nonproblem, as the average ocean temperature has only changed by.1 degrees in 50 years, an amount that is probably smaller than measurement error.

I won't argue that our added gases may contribute to the warming to some very, very small degree, but keep in mind, the ash plume from a good volcanic eruption such as the last big Pinatubo eruption eclipses into insignificants the amount of pollutants added to the atmosphere by human activity.

The small «convective» spots appear mainly in a region from about 55 degrees N to the pole, and were not seen in the south polar region when it was imaged by Keck at similar wavelengths in 2003.

We use this sample to limit any azimuthal variations in the median metallicity within the ~ 45 degree - wide azimuthal region covered by the current sample to be < = 0.02 dex, which is more than an order of magnitude smaller than the radial metallicity gradient.

Large and small hornet attacks upon foragers (Fig 3) significantly decreased colony waggle dancing by the same degree.

We conclude that the degree of starch malabsorption by the small intestine of ileostomates may be less than that estimated by indirect methods in intact humans.

Regarding carbohydrate source, a diet with a low versus high glycemic index can be used to reduce HbA1c moderately (by ∼ 0.5 %).13 Case series and pilot studies reveal more substantial improvements in HbA1c and other benefits (less hypoglycemia and reduced glycemic variability) with a very low — carbohydrate diet (VLCD).14 — 21 Although varying to some degree among studies, a VLCD is typically defined as ≤ 20 to 50 g per day of carbohydrates or ≤ 5 % to 10 % carbohydrates as a proportion of calories.22 — 24 In T1DM, small sample sizes and methodological issues limit the significance of VLCD benefits, and little is known about prevalence, practice, and sustainability.

But Spielberg's achievement on this occasion is to fold into his own celluloid know - how an astonishing script by playwright Tony Kushner that animates the political process to a degree rarely encountered on screen: small wonder both men figure among the film's 12 Oscar nominations, the most of any movie this year.

I would like to redistribute those to the community that I'll be teaching in, and hope that I am in fact doing this in a small way by using my Harvard degree in service of my students.

The «one size fits all» model that characterizes American education typically encourages students to earn bachelor's degrees, even though today, as Symonds points out, the percentage of Americans who actually earn bachelor's degrees by age 27 is still quite small — only 30 percent.

«When Money Matters,» a report of a national study released in 1997 by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), determined that spending money on smaller classes has a greater impact on math achievement than spending on administration, school buildings, or hiring teachers with advanced degrees.

Some states have high - quality programs as evidenced by such traits as ensuring teachers hold bachelor's degrees and enforcing small class sizes.

Choice B: Young college grads with degrees in their desired career area — who complete 5 weeks of education training which includes teaching a class 1 hour daily and a small group 1 hour daily, pass the state required tests, continue basic education classes after they begin teaching, are hired with the district paying a minimum of $ 5,000 per teacher to a private organization, are paid salary and benefits negotiated by the district's union, are sought by big corporations, banks, and Wall Street because of their service and skills gained from 2 years of teaching, after 2 years get discounts and benefits from grad schools and employers, after 2 years receive $ 11,000 toward further degrees in education or that initial career choice, and after 2 years are now «experts» in education seeking positions in government to influence education policy.

Of 16,000 school business managers, a sample survey by NASBM showed that 10 per cent were senior executives of large schools or multiple - academy trusts (MATs)-- while the majority (50 per cent) held «varying degrees of influence» in leadership roles within single schools, and a large proportion (40 per cent) were in smaller - scale administrative roles.

We can see how pervasive zoning restrictions are in the U.S. by how, for example, 84 % of jurisdictions impose minimum lot size requirements to some degree (the average jurisdiction with zoning power has a minimum lot size of.4 acres), and 22 % of jurisdictions have laws that forbid housing units on lots smaller than 1 acre (Gyourko, Joseph, Saiz, and Summers).

Due to a limited degree of correction the sideslip angle is not entirely neutralized by the AHK system; a small delay between steering input and output remains but the delay is very small.