Sentences with phrase «greater than the system»

In fact, when externalities such as reduced air pollution and other health benefits are considered, IRENA's approach projects the overall benefits to be between two and six times greater than the system costs of decarbonisation.

Not exact matches

To try to stop the destruction before the Great Barrier Reef — the largest, most extensive reef system in the world — is no more, the Australian government has announced that it plans to spend more than half a billion Australian dollars (about $ 379 million USD) on improving water quality to protect coral reefs; reef restoration; and helping to fight predatory starfish.

For many entrepreneurs and CEOs running fast - growing tech firms, there is perhaps no greater enemy to business than the United States patent system.

«I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticize their own public officials.»

Vulnerabilities linked to greater imbalances in regional housing markets and the continued rise of household debt were higher than they were six months ago, the bank said in its latest financial system review.

It is more effective than caffeine because it stays in your system longer, and it tastes great with toast or fruit.

«Studies show that people who use journaling and tracking systems have far greater success with healthy weight management than those who do not,» said Medifast CEO Mike MacDonald, in a statement.

Sue warns that, if these hormones do have a profound effect on the immune system, then «men may not be exaggerating symptoms, but have weaker immune responses to viral respiratory viruses, leading to greater morbidity and mortality than seen in women.»

# 5 — New tech — VoIP, mobile phones and the paperless office New technology can represent a great way to save money, so investigate using a VoIP phone system rather than a more expensive conventional land line provider.

To me, there was nothing greater that I could build than something that would change the reality in our healthcare system today, which is that when someone you love gets really, really sick, usually by the time you find that out, it's too late to be able to do something about it.

Large banks would love to get a broad pass from Dodd - Frank's regulations, which are tougher on them because they pose a greater risk to the financial system than smaller banks.

«I've been dedicated to the proposition that there's been no greater wealth - creation system in the history of mankind than the American free enterprise system,» he said in the interview.

But for Mr Fitzgibbon, the story is much greater than a simple focus on lowering costs and smoothing out complexity within the many - layered healthcare system, which includes pharmacies, pharmaceutical companies, large medical groups and insurers.

Those countries with less - developed institutions and financial systems, limited policy credibility, greater foreign currency debt and / or more precarious economic situations are certainly more exposed than others to external shocks.

It takes a collapse in liquidity to create a crisis, and if insolvent borrowers remain liquid, we are likely instead to see a long, difficult period of slow growth in which the losses are painfully ground out of the system (and always turn out to be greater than they would have been had they been recognized immediately).

These articles include, Financial Bailout: America's Own Kleptocracy — the Largest Transformation of America's Financial System since the Great Depression; The Paulson / Bernanke Bailout: Will the Cure Be Worst than the Disease?

The risk varies by country and is generally greater within the banking system than with a private vaulting facility.

To what extent should a country impose austerity and even depression on itself — more than a great recession, an entire lost decade on itself — simply to pay interest to bondholders who've been financing a fiscal system that hasn't really taxed the rich in Greece?

Figures such as Bill Gates and Larry Summers are stepping forward to warn us that digital systems will become a greater disruption to jobs earlier than most people realize.

They're generally easy to use and compatible with a wide range of operating systems, and they usually provide greater security than web wallets (but not as much protection as hardware wallets).

Stochastic clearings are not a problem for the banking system as a whole, because banks with unexpectedly large adverse clearings (which leave them with smaller reserves than desired) can sell assets to or borrow from banks that experience positive clearings and reserves greater than desired.

It is possible also that the Bank will continue to rely to a greater extent than normal on foreign exchange swaps to provide system liquidity ahead of Y2K.

Over the course of 30 years this monthly system accumulated greater profits than a buy - and - hold approach (which, of course, does not in anyway guarantee that it will continue to in the future).

But Krugman has a much bigger puzzle to explain away: if free markets in banking are the problem, why did Canada, which, during this period, had a far less regulated banking system than the US, not experience the panics we did, and why did no Canadian banks fail during the Great Depression while around 9000 US banks did?

Displaying what Donald (now Dierdre) McCloskey once characterized as «the intellectual range from M to N,» there is no real comparison of the Fed's record with that of the system that preceded it; no mention of other monetary systems circa 1913 that had better records than the United States (most pertinently, that of Canada); not nearly enough acknowledgment of the great harm the Fed has caused more than once in its history; no discussion of why a few other central banks — though surprisingly, only a few — have performed better than the Fed; and no inkling that central banking may not be the best of all possible systems in the best of all possible worlds.

The new systems often require taller ceilings and greater electrical capacity than what's found in a traditional warehouse, another spur to new construction.

The battery deployed last week in greater Tel Aviv is equipped with a stronger radar system than the other batteries.

With age, he might have succumbed to the temptation to elucidate, to dispel the enigmas and clarify the inchoate intuitions, to produce a system rather than give free expression to his natural creative ferment, and that would have been a great pity.

«And there is nothing greater your life can be about than contributing whatever you can to the revolutionary transformation of society and the world, to put an end to all systems and relations of oppression and exploitation and all the unnecessary suffering and destruction that goes along with them.»

The other way is when a non-spontaneous system, one which is both endothermic and increases in order, to be coupled with a system which produces a greater negative Gibb's free energy change than the positive Gibb's free energy change of the non-spontaneous system.

The science side of me looks at the systematic ways that systems, elements, molecules and atoms come together to form life and I realize it is very easy for me to believe that an intelligence greater than mine is definitely a possibility too.

It is much more simple than you can imagine folks... in every local mosque across America, muslims are being taught something called «soft jihad» which is learning how to exploit the opportunities muslims have to litigate, and defraud the American system with great ease.

And like computer systems, some religions have more features than others, but at the cost of a higheroverhead and the greater possibility of bugs.

He gives examples of complex systems of relationships that are made up of several different levels, in each case attempting to answer the question, «how is the whole greater than the sum of the parts?»

To risk a generalization even more reckless than those I have already made: from the time of the pre-Socratics, all the great speculative and moral systems of the pagan world were, in varying degrees, confined to this totality, to either its innermost mechanisms or outermost boundaries; rarely did any of them catch even a glimpse of what might lie beyond such a world; and none could conceive of reality except as a kind of strife between order and disorder, within which a sacrificial economy held all forces in tension.

I have found by studying systems (powers greater than me) my energy (decision making) is more effective and calming.

Worse, Callahan supports the odious approach of the UK rationing board NICE and the QALY system it imposes on the people of the United Kingdom, a policy in which the young and able - bodied have greater value than others based on «quality of life» judgmentalism:

Anything to ignore that the greatest country on the planet as a less than adequate health care system.

However, there are vast differences within each of these two categories between economic systems that are nominally grouped together, greater differences than there are between some systems that we place on opposite sides of the capitalism / socialism dividing line.

If atheism wants to be taken seriously as a belief system and not just as a rejectionist, negative viewpoint then y» all have got to provide something, a sense of community or of a greater human endeavour, something more than a flat denial.

Raising the income cap would increase the existing progressivity of the system, as would applying greater cost - of - living benefit adjustments for families with lower earnings than to those with high earnings.

Rather than conceiving of modernization as moving happily toward greater prosperity and enlightenment for all, world - system theorists depict it as moving in fits and spurts, as a kind of Hobbesian drama.

Within the functional world - village, to which technology has now shrunk mankind's space - time dimensions, information on a world or inter-continental scale is distorted, mutilated and ignored to a much greater degree than information within the nation - state systems.

First, to say that this pear has mass might be to say that within the framework of physics and systems of physical measurement and associated units, there is some number m greater than zero, which, to some unspecified tolerance, functions as a parameter in a mechanical analysis of the pear's behavior.

We must recognize that in this context «adaptation» is strictly defined in terms of survival values and that, generally speaking, it is the simpler forms of organization that possess the greatest staying power: living systems, no matter how fantastically intricate - and well organized they might be, have a much shorter span of existence than, say, a rock crystal, or a single stable atom.34

Tragically, we should expect that those systems providing the greatest degree of freedom, security, and economic opportunity (today, almost all Western or Westernized states in Asia) will be viewed as rivals and threats to be eliminated — or overrun and poached upon — rather than beacons to be praised and emulated by the less successful.

We need not anthropocentrically imagine the evolutionary process to culminate in man, for it is quite conceivable that in time it might bypass man and the entire class of mammals to favor some very different species capable of a greater complexity than man can achieve; if not here on earth, then in some other planetary system.

Finally, outside the school system, technology has made a liberal education cheaper and more accessible than ever before --- witness, for example, the wild success of the Great Courses, usefully profiled by Heather Mac Donald in the City Journal.

There is very little that is greater than mankind that we have created, perhaps the voyager probes that are finally leaving the solar system.

But the study also found that expert meditators - monks with more than 10,000 hours of practice - showed significantly greater activation of their limbic systems.