Sentences with phrase «have much of an impact over»

Not exact matches

In a statement about the ad, Williams said she hadn't started playing tennis with the explicit intention of breaking down barriers, but that, «Over time, I became much more conscious of the impact I had, and I became more conscious of what I had to do to make a difference.»
That 3 % difference may not seem like much, but it can have an absolutely massive impact over the course of a career.
Tesla noted that the shortages from its suppliers had a negative impact on its first quarter deliveries, with the issues lasting much longer than anticipated over the months of January and February.
As I reminisce over the first few clients I welcomed through the doors of my studio almost five years ago, I could never imagine how much Pure Barre would impact so many lives in Jacksonville, alone.
Check out this comparative illustration of the impact fees have on how much you can earn over the course of 15 years:
Much of the debate over the past years about the benefits and the costs global specialization, primarily the rapid advance of China as a major manufacturing center has been less about the financial costs — the $ 12 trillion dollars of additional liquidity that the US consumers offered to the world (the cumulative US trade deficit from 1990 through 2015 compared to the over $ 3 trillion dollars in trade surplus run - up by China over this same period — and more in terms of the jobs lost and the impact of foreign products on American wages in manufacturing.
It is one, though, that is having a much more significant impact on the understanding and practise of religious faith because it is laying the foundations for a change that will be durable over a much longer period of time.
There is much debate over the relative merits of conventional farming, which has a large environmental impact on the land it uses, and organic farming, which may require greater land use for the same yield.
That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».
His overall score over 90 minutes this year was 38.67 and that is not quite as good as the 40.39 from last year and much worse than the 70.21 of his first season, so does this actually show that Ozil is getting worse or having less of an impact as time goes on?
We've seen far too much over the years from both units to expect otherwise, but they'll want to start digging out of this hole sooner rather than later before it really impacts their Playoff journeys.
A study in the journal Child looked at over 3,000 families and studied how much of an impact support can have on mothers and babies when it comes to colic.
Attachment quality has profound effects for each child over the lifetime, often much more of an impact than is realized outside scientific and clinical circles.
I don't claim to be an expert on the Sikh religion but I have seen over the years how much of a positive impact Sikhs have had not just in my constituency but across Britain.
That's why we have to look at the balance in terms of what is cheaper: Can we reduce emissions of greenhouse gases today so that we can stabilize the earth's climate, rather than adapt to the impacts of climate change and incur much higher costs over a period of time?
It is possible that medical advances over the past few decades in the treatment of type 2 diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol levels have had a greater impact on people who are overweight — which increases the risk for these conditions — whereas the effect was much smaller in those of normal weight.
«While advances in science and technology and improved safety practices have significantly reduced the threat of oil spills in Canadian waters over the past few decades, much about the fate, environmental impacts and remediation of oil spills remain poorly understood,» said Kenneth Lee, the director of Oceans and Atmosphere, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Perth, Western Australia and chair of the seven - member panel.
Last week, lunar scientists made a splash when they announced that three spacecraft — India's Chandrayaan - 1 craft and NASA's Cassini and Deep Impact probes — have detected water's spectral signature over much of the moon's surface.
American impact While global sea levels have risen about 2.75 inches (7 centimeters) over the past 22 years, the west coast of the United States has not seen much of a rise in ocean levels.
A new study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences follows more than 7,000 households in Indonesia over 15 years to conclude that sudden disasters in fact have a much smaller impact on provincial migration than heat stress.
The climatic impact of the Toba supereruption, estimated to have erupted between 10 and 360 times more H2SO4 than Pinatubo (9), has consequently been the focus of much research over the past three decades (1, 3 ⇓ — 5, 10 ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ — 16).
The field of stem cell biology has made major and continuing progress over the last few years towards achieving its much heralded aim of impacting human health.
At Southwest Research and Information Center, much of our work over the past 35 years has been to address the enormous legacy of nuclear's past and present — sick and dead people and contaminated land and water from uranium mining and milling, the world's first underground nuclear waste repository, and the political and economic power of the two nuclear weapons laboratories and their environmental impacts.
However, too much and constant stress over a long period of time will have a negative impact on the dopamine levels in the body, lowering its levels as well as reducing the number of dopamine receptors in the human brain.
Your supplementation of the basic curriculum truly enhanced my understanding of the impact of nutrition and behavior on the operation of our body systems and how much control over our health we actually have.
Another upside to dating over 40 is that the children who are involved are typically older children and will not have as much of an impact on your dating relationship as younger children would have.
Much has been made of the terrifying impact of his guerrilla warfare commandant, but the most masterful moments of the performance are as he loses dominance over his child soldiers — the impotence with which he clings to his his blind warpath lingers after the chills.
National Poll Finds Waning Support for Charter Schools (The Atlanta Journal Constitution) Charter Schools Take a Hit in Nationwide Poll (EdSource) Public Support for Charter Schools Plummets, Poll Finds (Education Week) Enthusiasm for Charter School Formation Takes Hit, New Poll Finds (The Christian Science Monitor) New Poll Shows Sharp Decline in Support for Public Charter Schools Over Past Year (The 74) National Support for Charter Schools Has Dropped Sharply in Last Year (Chalkbeat) People Think Teachers Are Underpaid — Until You Tell Them How Much Teachers Earn (Time) Marty West co-authors the annual EducationNext survey of American public opinion on timely education issues such charter schools, higher education, and the impact of the current administration, among others.
This much is clear: Even though a rising demand for safe, low - impact products has driven competition up and prices down, school administrators responsible for purchasing still need to look beyond the up - front sticker price of green products to consider a product's durability and lifetime expectancy, how much energy it consumes over the long haul, and how much it costs to operate and maintain.
The Edcamp model has not only made an impact, but it has sustained and continues to grow — so much so that it took over the United States Department of Education during the summer last year.
Because so much of the library program's impact has been in the intangible and difficult to measure areas of learning — even in the cognitive domain — we may find it difficult to find support for these strategies, and sustain a rich discovery learning approach over time.
«I've heard complaints from many parents and students over the past few years about lost learning time and the impact of too much student testing, especially for 11th - graders, who have some of the heaviest testing burdens with the SBAC, SAT and Advanced Placement exams,» Senator Bye said.
Over all the features that I did not pay too much attention but have had the greatest impact are: the head rest, it holds my head instead of pushing it up; the drive mode button, i don't like using sport mode at all, but there are some occasions when a driver is being rude and driving the same speed as I am, sports mode really helps to get out of that knot in the road; And finally, the MPG display, that way I get the most miles from my
How much of an impact can an author website have on book sales over the long term, versus other strategies such as social media engagement, metadata optimization, Amazon promotion, Goodreads advertising, traditional media / PR, etc?
This process has actually been ongoing for quite some time and began with the emergence of tools that digitized the back - end of the business; word processors, computers, design software, email and much more (which changed writing, editing, typesetting, design etc) and has over time moved from there towards more front facing aspects of the industry (production, distribution, selling) before starting to make a large impact on the consumer side of the industry, consumption in the form of ebooks and web - reading (not to mention making many other forms of content from music to games available to those consumers).
In the intro, I go into some pertinent publishing news: Kobo has become Tolino's tech partner, which makes it a much bigger player in the growing German ebook market; Amazon is opening a bookstore in New York City; while Barnes & Noble reported a 9 % decline in sales over the holiday period, there's discussion on the impact of the All Romance Ebooks closure, and once again, I talk about the importance of multiple streams of income, as well as multi - currency / multi-country income in order to weather the changes undoubtedly ahead and hedge against potential economic changes.
The average annual impact of closing costs is much smaller when those costs are assumed to have been spread over 30 years instead of seven to 10 years.
If you invest regularly over months, years, and decades, short - term downturns will not have much of an impact on your ultimate performance.
A book that had that much impact on me, and the author mentions one of the exact stocks I'd added to my portfolio since changing it over to a Deep Value portfolio.
When you have a loan that lasts that long, the interest rate can have an enormous impact on how much you pay over the life of the loan (and your credit score is a huge factor for what rate you get... more on that later).
That 3 % difference may not seem like much, but it can have an absolutely massive impact over the course of a career.
Check out this comparative illustration of the impact fees have on how much you can earn over the course of 15 years:
After achieving so much success in just over a decade and positively impacting the lives of numerous pet owners and animals, it is clear that the journey the Stouts began when they got a heart - breaking prognosis for their Saint Bernard will end up having a happy ending.
Truth be told the quality of both the writing and main narrative thread is all over the place, bouncing madly from genuinely beautifully written moments with emotional impact and outstanding twists sure to leave you with your jaw on the floor to scenes with clumsy dialogue and ideas that just didn't work out as well as I would have liked, though exactly how much of this inconsistency can be put down to translation issues is hard to judge.
SHOWCASES Over the past seven years, GAMEHOTEL has also launched a series of complementary spin - offs and showcases that highlight just how much interactive entertainment impacts popular culture around the world.
I've spent a lot of time over the last year thinking about this question: how can The Abundant Artist achieve 10 times as much impact, while I exert the same amount of effort?
It points out that it has taken 50 years to create a vibrant arts culture in Britain that is the envy of the world and appeals to the government not to slash arts funding and risk destroying this long - term achievement and the social and economic benefits it brings to all.The artists acknowledge that reasonable cuts and efficiencies are necessary butthey fear that the 25 % cuts being proposed will destroy much of what has been achieved and will have a particularly damaging impact on national and regional museums and their collections.The campaign is being organised by the London branch of a national consortium of over 2,000 arts organisations and artists dedicated to working together and finding new ways to support the arts in the UK.
A much bigger role for solar would have an impact, but the trend would need to be about 5 times stronger over the relevant period to change the IPCC statement and I am not aware of any evidence to support this (and much that doesn't).
This is a big departure from the work of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change over the last 20 years, in which scientists have periodically laid out «what if» scenarios for emissions, warming, impacts and responses, but avoided defining how much warming is too much.
A new study co-authored by Francis Zwiers, the director of UVic's Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, suggests that human - induced global warming may be responsible for the increases in heavy precipitation that have been observed over much of the Northern Hemisphere including North America and Eurasia over the past several decades.
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