Sentences with phrase «extent of the effects of»

We still don't know the full extent of the effects of marijuana on breastfeeding babies, but we do know one thing:

Doctors are still unsure of the extent of the effects of consuming caffeine while pregnant, so it's best to avoid it altogether if possible.

The initial assessment is a cursory look; it will take many more weeks to further understand and analyze the full extent of the effects of the event.

We do not have enough information to know the extent of the effect of this downward pressure on industry profits — it may be minuscule, or it may be substantial.

According to reports last night, a confidential World Bank document indicates the true extent of the effect of biofuels on prices at a crucial time in the world's negotiations on biofuel policy.

In the course of trying to determine the possible extent of the effects of gender bias on the precision of categories in the DSM, Psychologist Paula J. Caplan, PHD and graduate student Kaye Lee Pantony examined whether the research confirmed the existence of such mental disorders as those represented by the labels of the categories they had chosen to study, whether research had made it possible to discover the actual elements, or criteria, of each disorder; and whether research had made it possible to discover exactly how many criteria a person had to meet in order to belong clearly to a particular category.

Not exact matches

This hunch prompted the federal government in March to earmark $ 500,000 for Statistics Canada to study the extent of foreign real estate purchasing and what effect it has on the market.

One of the key points we made involves the difference between marketing, say, a homeopathic «remedy,» which is utterly incapable of having any biological effect because it literally lacks any active ingredient, and marketing herbal products — a category of substances which can in some cases be quite potent, but which can be highly variable in content, concentration, and labelling, not to mention the extent to which their effects and side effects have been verified.

«Most people will have a small number of effective hours to work, and to the extent those hours can overlap with other people's, the net effect will be more impact,» Butterfield says.

If JAMS (or, if applicable, AAA) at the time the arbitration is filed has Minimum Standards of Procedural Fairness for Consumer Arbitrations in effect which would be applicable to the matter in dispute, NBCUniversal agrees to provide the benefit of such Minimum Standards to you to the extent they are more favorable than the comparable arbitration provisions set forth in this Section 26, provided, however, that in no event may such Minimum Standards contravene or restrict the application of subpart (e) or (i) below.

To the extent that prior experience in non-venture-backed companies is important, we will be understating the effect of entrepreneurial experience.

Since a larger share of deposit rates are fixed than are loan rates, this will overstate the effect on cash flows over longer time horizons, though the extent of this bias has not necessarily changed over time in an obvious way.

In particular, to the extent that the effect on inflation of further gradual tightening in labor market conditions is likely to be moderate and gradual, the case to tighten policy preemptively is less compelling.

[7] In fact, however, because proxy access» effect will be to increase the number of short slates, albeit to an uncertain extent, its impact on corporate governance likely will be analogous to that of cumulative voting.

[A] mong the elements to be taken into account for purposes of determining what constitutes an «extraordinary» action, which would normally be outside the apparent authority of senior executives, are the economic magnitude of the action in relation to corporate assets and earnings, the extent of risk involved, the time span of the action's effect, and the cost of reversing the action.

in the case of our directors, officers, and security holders, (i) the receipt by the locked - up party from us of shares of Class A common stock or Class B common stock upon (A) the exercise or settlement of stock options or RSUs granted under a stock incentive plan or other equity award plan described in this prospectus or (B) the exercise of warrants outstanding and which are described in this prospectus, or (ii) the transfer of shares of Class A common stock, Class B common stock, or any securities convertible into Class A common stock or Class B common stock upon a vesting or settlement event of our securities or upon the exercise of options or warrants to purchase our securities on a «cashless» or «net exercise» basis to the extent permitted by the instruments representing such options or warrants (and any transfer to us necessary to generate such amount of cash needed for the payment of taxes, including estimated taxes, due as a result of such vesting or exercise whether by means of a «net settlement» or otherwise) so long as such «cashless exercise» or «net exercise» is effected solely by the surrender of outstanding stock options or warrants (or the Class A common stock or Class B common stock issuable upon the exercise thereof) to us and our cancellation of all or a portion thereof to pay the exercise price or withholding tax and remittance obligations, provided that in the case of (i), the shares received upon such exercise or settlement are subject to the restrictions set forth above, and provided further that in the case of (ii), any filings under Section 16 (a) of the Exchange Act, or any other public filing or disclosure of such transfer by or on behalf of the locked - up party, shall clearly indicate in the footnotes thereto that such transfer of shares or securities was solely to us pursuant to the circumstances described in this bullet point;

There are other aspects of the NGP Report that merit further discussion, including its approach to adaptive management (we now have three different JRP reports in as many years that take different views on the extent to which AM can be relied upon in making a determination as to the likelihood of significant adverse environmental effects under CEAA), the precautionary principle, species at risk and Aboriginal consultation.

Written by NCEO founder Corey Rosen, this issue brief discusses as of mid-2016 the extent and growth of employee ownership; survey data on ESOPs and corporate governance as well as ESOPs and executive compensation; research on the effect of ESOPs on corporate performance; the 2012 shared capitalism study of Great Place to Work applicants; data on employee ownership and employee financial well - being; the NCEO's analysis of data on ESOPs and default rates; trends in broad - based equity compensation plans; equity compensation and corporate performance; the impact of ESOPs and other broad - based plans on unemployment; legislative and regulatory issues for employee ownership; and international developments in broad - based plans.

While Glass Lewis, along with the Company's shareholders, will not know the extent of the bid - rigging and its effect on the Company, we anticipate that concerns will be raised regarding the Company's corporate governance structure and internal controls.

To the extent that a company's accounting for certain income tax effects of the Tax Act is incomplete but it is able to determine a reasonable estimate, it must record a provisional estimate in the financial statements.

«We don't know the extent to which the tariffs will actually come into effect and, if so, how big will that effect be and what will the timing of it be,» Mr. Powell said.

To the extent that a transaction in ARS can be effected outside of auction, the price received may be less than the amount originally invested, depending on market conditions for the given ARS.

The effect of this weakness in the consumer sector on overall activity was, to some extent, offset by robust growth in business investment.

Much of the recent strength has come from a steep rise estimated for «other resource» prices, as sharply higher contract prices for iron ore and coal began to take effect from 1 April, and to a lesser extent, from rising base metals prices.

Prospects for consumer spending will depend importantly on the extent of strengthening in the labour market over the coming year — both because of the impact on confidence and through the effect of employment growth on disposable income.

In short, it seems to me that Christianity by its very nature must admit the claims of Enlightenment scholarship to a greater extent than does Judaism, and that it can survive the dissolving effect of those claims far better.

With respect to the first, Phelps answers well: Economic analysis is good to the extent that it accurately predicts the real effects of economic policy.

But the extent to which human existence depends upon a natural order of «societies, harmoniously requiring each other» has recently become all the more apparent as the accumulated effects of industry, technology, and population growth have presented major «environmental» problems (see CC).

Whatever the case, most everyone agrees that whatever effect Sandy had on the economy will be a short one, and a clearer vision for the pace and extent of the recovery is imminent...

From the standpoint of geographic extent, new movements of marked vitality, and effects upon civilization the world around, this was, as we have suggested, the greatest century which the influence of Jesus has thus far known.

The best theory to explain the rate and extent of change we're seeing includes the effect produced by people.

This limitation of both the extent and duration of the bond that ought to link people in a sexual relation has the effect of making such relations increasingly unstable and at the same time of trimming the virtues required of the agents involved in them.

Through good education, however, it is possible to a large extent to help people habitually to want what they should want, thus effecting a happy reinforcement of devotion by desire.

The incarnation is only truly and actually real if it effects the death of the original sacred, the death of God himself... What is new in the Christian name of Jesus is the epiphany of the totality of the sacred in the contingency of a particular moment of time: in this name the sacred appears and is real only to the extent that it becomes actual and realized in history [The Gospel of Christian Atheism (Westminster, 1966), pp. 54, 57].

This commonly held position seems to the author to be inadequate in the case of applied science, where effects can usually be foreseen to some extent.

To me this appears the most satisfactory interpretation of the present state of Life on the surface of the earth; despite a regrettable recrudescence of racialism and nationalism which, impressive though it may be, and disastrous in its effect upon our private post-war lives, seems to have no scientific importance in the overall process: for the reason that any human tendency to fragmentation, regardless of its extent and origin, is clearly of an order of magnitude inferior to the planetary forces (geographic, demographic, economic and psychic) whose constantly and naturally growing pressure must sooner or later compel us willy - nilly to unite in some form of human whole organized on the basis of human solidarity.

In the following paragraphs an effort will be made to investigate whether and to what extent the mood of the boundless, so characteristic of the American spirit, constitutes a kind of soft and yielding tyranny into which the eschatological and bounded finalities of the gospel are absorbed without great effect.

The effect of this is that one person feels another's needs as if they were his own and for that matter also feels his own needs to some extent as if they belonged to the other.2.

Taken in isolation they only serve to muddy the waters.6 Even in Process and Reality the transformation of God into an actual entity is not wholly complete, and to that extent there is some truth in the assertion that «what little influence Whitehead's God has on the actual world... he has as a principle, not as a being or person, and insofar as God is a personal being, he is without any effect on the actual world.

«The great Flood of Genesis was an actual historic event, worldwide (global) in its extent and effect.»

Although disasters that are particularly severe and cause substantial resource loss can elicit greater mental health distress and PTSD symptoms, to the extent that survivors can find spiritual meaning in such events, the deleterious effects of disasters on mental health functioning may be reduced.

The extent of this rapid phase of church growth — how long it will last, what effect it will have on the general population of the city, and if these churches can endure past a single generation — «remains to be seen,» Carnes says.

The negative effect of the National Council of Churches needs to be understood in relation to the history of the NCC itself, especially the extent to which it was modeled after the United Nations and was prompted by an interest in global religious concerns.

We could put this position into an explicitly Christian context by saying that the new testament will truly be new to the extent that it embodies and effects a negation and transcendence of its old - testament ground.

To what extent can we believe any more that «The prayer of a righteous man has great power in its effects»?

In a world where cause and effect have been shown to operate at so many more points than was earlier imagined, we are forced to ask to what extent prayers of petition and intercession which plead with God for the speedy fulfillment of certain clear objectives, really depend upon a belief in the «God of the gaps».

Ideally, such themes and liturgies should arise out of the needs and concerns of those gathered to perform the sacraments, since intensity can have its effect only to the extent that it touches them.

The purpose was to discover the extent and nature of violent and sexually violent material in the media, and what effects it is having on people in our society.

But mentality can discriminate either by ruling out, contradiction, or including, contrast, As mentality broadens, what were initially contradictions become contrasts.8 Mentality grows by the transmutation of contradiction into contrast, The increase in mental functioning begets in turn greater depth of contrast, which in its own turn further promotes mental functioning.9 This explains to some extent why it is not necessary to increase LSD dosage on subsequent occasions to promote greater effects.

The following tools and guides are for anyone attempting to quantify and reduce their own food loss and waste, as well as reading materials providing additional background on the causes, extent, and effects of lost or wasted food.