Sentences with phrase «has little effect at»

Studies have shown that using a weight belt either has little effect at all on the erector spinae muscles (lower back muscles) or an increase of their engagement by up to 25 %.

In recent years, other regulatory attempts at strengthening online privacy rules have also had little effect at chipping away at the power of the largest tech companies, ultimately aiding internet giants rather than hurting them.

As it turns out, when objects are extremely close together, heat flows not just as electromagnetic waves, but as evanescent waves — exponentially decaying waves that have little effect at the macroscale, as they typically die away before reaching another object.

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Margie Patel, a senior portfolio manager at Wells Fargo Funds, said that she expects to see little to no effect from trade tariffs and has been adding to companies such as PNC Financial Services that have sold off in the market downturn.

Shrewsberry said at the Barclays» conference that there has been little effect so far on customer behavior at Wells, but only time will tell if that remains the case.

The same three factors that cause measles to spread through a grade school classroom, writes Gladwell, can be used to explain the Hush Puppies phenomenon: (1) contagiousness, (2) the fact that little causes can have big effects, and (3) the way change often occurs at one dramatic moment rather than gradually.

Furthermore, the rates at which these securities, by investors can buy and sell have little effect on their prices.

As we noted in our March 19 Institute Alert titled «China's Turn at the Trade War Table,» we believe that China's trade announcement was largely symbolic and could potentially have little direct effect on U.S. exports.

«Repatriation has little effect on real investment in the United States,» said Alan Viard, a tax expert at the conservative American Enterprise Institute and a former senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

Firing Rosenstein Would Be a Mistake: The move, writes Paul Rosenzweig, would come at a high political cost and have little effect on the investigaWould Be a Mistake: The move, writes Paul Rosenzweig, would come at a high political cost and have little effect on the investigawould come at a high political cost and have little effect on the investigation.

As with New York on the opposite end of the price spectrum, drastic differences in pricing had little effect on the available mortgage rates relative to the state at large, with the 30 - year fixed rate landing around 4 %.

But it had very little effect on the School of Theology at Claremont as an institution, and our graduates have had very little effect on the church as an institution.

Parents of large families in which older children have already moved on to adult life report a «squash and a squeeze» effect where each child's birth makes the house a little less bearable until breaking point is almost reached... then older children spend the day at school, then they're off to university and adult life, and slowly the house becomes almost unbearably large.

archeologists... she also fails to mention that it is a book written by goatherds who didn't know why the sun came up in the morning and were this god to exist, believing in him or worshiping him would have little effect as his adherents are subject to his «will» so that our needs and desires are fulfilled at an equal rate to hoping and wishing.

At times he had a similar effect on Dan and me, but I confess that I'll be a little sad this afternoon when I have to take out his batteries, wrap him in bubble wrap, and mail him back to Virginia so he can be rented out to someone else... probably a football jock who won't think to keep him cool enough at nighAt times he had a similar effect on Dan and me, but I confess that I'll be a little sad this afternoon when I have to take out his batteries, wrap him in bubble wrap, and mail him back to Virginia so he can be rented out to someone else... probably a football jock who won't think to keep him cool enough at nighat night.

As a skilful cook says of a dish in which there are already a great many ingredients: «It still needs just a little pinch of cinnamon» (and we perhaps could hardly tell by the taste that this little pinch of spice had been added, but she knew precisely why and precisely how it affected the taste of the whole mixture); as an artist says with a view to the color effect of a whole painting which is composed of many, many, colors: «There and there, at that little point, it needs a touch of red» (and we perhaps could hardly even discover the red, so carefully has the artist shaded it, although he knows exactly why it should be introduced).

The authors, professors of psychiatry, psychology, and medicine at Duke and Southern Methodist University, readily admit that little rigorous scientific research has been done to demonstrate the effects of religious practice on health.

For items that are going to be in the oven longer than cookies, like muffins or cakes, I also add a little moisture (maybe an extra 2 Tbsp per cup), to counteract the drying effect of the extra time things have to spend in the oven to finish cooking at high altitude (lower boiling point, and all that).

It had little or no effect on the finished product, at least from outward appearance — I just took it out of the oven.

Just wanted to add that I made these in a * mini * muffin pan and at 13 minutes they came out soft on the outside, no crust effect (good for teeny kids), and at 16 minutes they started to have a little crunchiness on the outside (nice for adults if eating hot).

Debuchy — 3 Aside from a goal line clearance, he had little to no effect at all on the game.

The young Arsenal striker Yaya Sanogo may not have scored against Hull City in the famous FA cup final triumph at Wembley back in May, but there is little doubt that he did have a big effect for the Gunners after coming on with around half an hour of normal time left to play.

One noticeable feature within this game though was Matip picking the ball up from deep, and moving forward with it — but this particular move had little effect on Swansea's shape at all, and Liverpool's players did not position themselves to take advantage of Swansea's tactical setup.

Pochettino will almost certainly react the same way if Spurs can overcome United at Wembley this weekend before going on to win the FA Cup next month, but he does not hide his belief that an FA Cup success would do little to effect the mentality of his players in terms of achieving the real goals of winning the league or Champions League.

The well - publicized lawsuits by former players against the N.F.L., the suicide of Junior Seau, a «Chicken Little - sky is falling» mentality by some prominent concussion experts and former athletes, some of whom suggest that the sport is simply too dangerous to be played at all at the youth level, and continuing research on the short - and long - term effects of concussion on cognitive function and brain health, have created a pretty toxic environment for the sport.

The information I received from them was that there was little data on the actual effects that interferon had on a nursing child, but from what they did know about interferon being produced naturally in the body, there would probably be no effect at all.

As a mature adult I am able to understand that a drink sipped over several hours with food (because what would a party be without nachos) will have little or no intoxicating effects and if a mom at the party did get tipsy there are plenty of other moms nearby to assist.

We've got a school board election next week, and I've been very disappointed at how little concern the candidates have expressed about the effects of No Child Left Behind on our schools.

Based on data showing that, while youth football players sustained concussions at about the same rate in practice and overall as high school and college athletes, they were injured at a rate 3 to 4 times higher than older players during games, the UPMC researchers predicted that Pop Warner's new rules «may not only have little effect on reducing on reducing concussions but may also actually increase the incidence of concussions in games via reduced time learning proper tackling in practice.»

It's the perfect follow up to Harriet's Home at Sea, a book about a little girl's home on the Great Barrier Reef and the devastating effects an oil spill has there.

Let's start to dig a little deeper at what the U.S. women are experiencing in birth and the effect it has.

While toddlers are notorious for digging in their heels and exerting their will at every opportunity, making a few small changes to your feeding routine can have a profound effect on their willingness to stay at the table and hey, maybe even eat a little.

This would mean that they would most likely not have any side effects, and they can remain comfortable at home while bringing in their little bundle of joy to the world.

➡ Compared to usual care, providing additional social support during an at - risk pregnancy probably has little or no effect on the incidence of low birth weight, preterm births, or perinatal deaths.

There are so many ways their little bodies can come into contact with potentially damaging chemicals, from their toothpastes, shampoos, food, frying pans, shower curtains — there has to be some looking at the cumulative effects versus thinking of each chemical in a vacuum.

Obviously that can have a pretty big impact on you and so one of the things this family wanted to do was at least start small and start with this one hospital again in the UK and see if they can sound proof some maternity to just give people little bit more privacy because it is true you never know what is going on in the room right next to you and it can have the same effect to of someone that is trying not to freak out about labor and delivery over you know the hypnobirthing and you hear something going on in the next room and it totally throws you off.

«Using that little bit of formula earlier really seems to have had a big effect on whether babies are getting formula at one week,» she says.

Despite the widespread public alarm over the effects of the new tax law's capping of state and local tax deductions at $ 10,000, that tax change had little effect on Schumer and Weinshall and the Gillibrands.

It is a convenient non-sequitur which makes a few people feel a little better about themselves, whilst having little effect on those at the bottom who find their new handout immediately swallowed by the inevitable inflation that follows it».

According to the Rallings and Thrasher projection, the seat would have returned a Conservative MP at the last general election with a majority of a little over 500, if it had been fought under the new boundaries which are about to come into effect.

When NBC 4 New York / Wall Street Journal / Marist asked Democrats earlier this month if Spitzer's sex scandal would impact their vote, only 34 % believed it would have an effect on how they cast their ballot, and 62 % reported it would matter little or not at all.

Speaking to Muslim community leaders at a mosque in Birmingham, Sir Menzies Campbell warned indiscriminate powers to stop and search risked alienating minority communities and had been overused to little effect.

The Cuomo administration's claim that closing the plant «will have little to no effect on New Yorkers» electricity bills» was concurred by Dr. Robert Brinkmann, founder of the Sustainability Studies program at Hofstra University.

«What is particularly missing at this time is her coming out in public, meeting her constituents, talking to TV cameras, explaining what happened, perhaps being a little humble about all of this and giving a satisfactory explanation to her constituents and the wider Conservative family to be quite frank, because speaking to people from the West Midlands region where she is an MP, these things do have a knock - on effect and there are other marginal seats far closer to her constituency where people have got Labour majorities to overturn which may be more difficult if the local Conservative politician is seen as tainted and not having justified their actions and also I gather that Conservative Party HQ has had party donors from the region expressing concern that she hasn't satisfactorily justified what she has done.»

«We think our innovative pilot would have done more to protect people from the crippling effects of preventable illnesses like diabetes and obesity than anything being proposed anywhere else in this country — and at little or no cost to taxpayers,» the statement said.

Lenders concludes, «Conversation programmes aimed at the recovery of the salmon population will have little effect, regardless of how clean the water is.

Willpower and meditation have little effect, and after two hours it is increasingly hard to make the stubborn little line move at all.

Although looking at the rarity of these events one might presume that weather extremes have little effect, the number of animals killed in the storms left a persistent recruitment legacy.

The researchers — led by Brett Sandercock, professor of biology — discovered that wind turbines have little effect on greater prairie chickens, and that these grassland birds are more affected by rangeland management practices and by the availability of native prairie and vegetation cover at nest sites.

With a view to clinical studies (tests on humans) it is important to note that the effects on the tumor vasculature were even observed at chloroquine concentrations that had little effect on autophagy in the cancer cells.