Sentences with phrase «chief culprit»

How ironic it is, therefore, that the supposed chief culprit behind the many real (and imagined) assaults on Earth's vegetation — rising atmospheric CO2 — has been found to be the primary cause of an ever - greener planet.

«The chief culprit among these costs is the New Jersey's property tax burden,» Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, explained.

As seen from the Israeli chief rabbinate's decision not to recognize Conservative and Reform conversions and the general complacency toward such a decision on the part of most American Orthodox Jews, Orthodoxy may actually have been the chief culprit in destroying the concept of peoplehood.

Yes there's been other people involved, but as majority shareholder he's chief culprit.

A number of Chelsea's first team stars have come in for some serious scrutiny recently for their less than impressive start to the campaign, with Hazard and Costa being the chief culprits.

While much of the first half was encouraging for Arsenal, they struggled to finish the chances they created — with Santos the chief culprit as the Gunners misfired.

City defence is looking quite suspect and the surprising thing about it is that Kompany is one of the chief culprits.

West Brom were once the chief culprits, now it was Leicester taking it to a whole new level of blatant wrestling, pushing, jostling, elbowing and shoving.

The chief culprit for an ammonia smell is diapers that aren't clean and detergent residue.

The chief culprit for an ammonia smell is detergent scent or detergent residue.

But the New York State Association of Counties says school taxes and unfunded mandates are the chief culprit.

Officials said they still need to calculate the exact number of youthful offenders who stand to be impacted by the change, the chief culprit in the state's late budget.

Lead paint in Buffalo's old housing stock is cited as the chief culprit.

Experts believe the chief culprit is chipping paint and lead paint dust inside and outside of Buffalo's old housing stock.

Local health officials believe lead paint is the chief culprit.

The three governors, all Democrats, singled out the partial elimination of deductibility for state and local taxes, also known as SALT, as a chief culprit, which Cuomo called «philosophically repugnant and practically damaging.»

«What I fear is that the county leaders will be able to pick off members of the Progressive Caucus,» he said, pointing to Crowley as «the chief culprit» in that effort.

The chief culprit, said Erie County Health Commissioner Gale Burstein, is chipping paint inside and outside of Buffalo's old housing stock.

You have said that engineering failures aren't the chief culprits behind disasters, pointing instead to human and organizational failures — inadequate safety protocols, corporate hierarchies, conflicting egos or just plain laziness.

Both air pollution and pollen, two of the chief culprits behind asthma and allergies, intensify as temperatures increase.

Martin Weisman of the Department of Health says the chief culprit for people's increasing weight must be decreasing physical activity, because on average people today eat fewer calories than their grandparents did («For a few burgers more...», New Scientist, 22 April).

As scientists and policymakers around the world try to combat the increasing rate of climate change, they have focused on the chief culprit: carbon dioxide.

While rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the air can be beneficial for plants, it is also the chief culprit of climate change.

Two of the chief culprits behind asthma and allergies — air pollution and smog — will only intensify as the temperatures rise.

He cited smoking, environmental pollutants and lack of knowledge of health care options as being among the chief culprits.

The findings in this study represent an important step forward in the way we can study and understand proteins that are thought to be among the chief culprits in diseases like Alzheimer's.»

Electrolyte imbalances become a chief culprit with keto flu.

A recent study in mice showed that collagen destruction is the chief culprit causing age - related hair loss, but more studies are needed to warrant collagen supplementation for hair growth.4 Evidence is currently lacking on collagen supplementation for growing stronger nails, 5 so you're better off protecting your nails with a hardening clear coat and supplementing with biotin instead.

Now maybe the creators of this nonsense, SNL - alum Dana Carvey, starring opposite himself in various mawkish roles (including his trademark President Bush fils), and Canadian - born stand - up comic / writer Harris Goldberg (Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo) being among the chief culprits, were trying to slap something together they felt every family could adore.

The turbocharger - fed torque - to - weight ratio (a torque peak of 184 lb ft means you have 176 lb ft per ton) is the chief culprit.

The chief culprit is the steering: in the standard setting it's as if its initial operation and weighting are controlled via a mechanism of elastic bands.

The chief culprit is the suspension, which feels too firm yet offers no real benefits in roll resistance or body control.

The chief culprit in the Nook decline was hardware itself.

There is compelling evidence that the atmosphere's rising CO2 content - which alarmists consider to be the chief culprit behind all of their concerns about the future of the biosphere (via the indirect threats they claim it poses as a result of CO2 - induced climate change)- is most likely the primary cause of the observed greening trends.

The chief culprit is fossil fuel combustion, which releases nitric oxides into the air that combine with other elements to form smog and acid rain.

During a period of time when the phrase «climate change» took root in the U.S. public consciousness, it appears that the state's output of carbon dioxide considered by scientists the chief culprit in warming the Earth's atmosphere — increased at a rate nearly double the rest of the country's.

California Gov. Gray Davis (D) has signed landmark legislation aimed at sharply reducing automobile and truck emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that many scientists say are the chief culprit in the earth's rising temperature.

considered by scientists the chief culprit in warming the Earth's atmosphere — increased at a rate nearly double the rest of the country's.

Chief culprit: Dr M. Monirul Q. Mirza, who repeated the «gone by 2035 ′ and «500,000 — > 100,000 km2 ′ claims in articles or books published in 2002, 2005 and (pre-AR4) 2007.

And they agreed that one of the chief culprits is the billable hour — what one of the speakers described as «the lawyer's curse.»

First of all, there is no doubt that he regards conditional fee agreements (CFAs) and ATE insurance as the chief culprits: «CFAs... have been the major contributor to disproportionate costs in civil litigation in England and Wales.»

«The research showed that the chief culprit for contamination was people eating at their desks and dropping crumbs which lodge between keys and encourage the growth of millions of bacteria.

Uninformed choices of college majors are a chief culprit, says The Resume Place.

One article by By Amy J.L. Baker, PhD, and Katherine Andre, PhD noted that, A chief culprit of this pain from the parent's point of view — apart from the loss of the child — is that of being blamed for the rejection of the child.