Sentences with phrase «holds more influence»

In top - down team structures, the leader holds more influence than others over the eventual decision.

Not exact matches

«There was a clear pattern in the findings - the more literary fiction authors that participants recognized, the better they tended to perform on the emotional recognition test, and this association held even after statistically accounting for the influence of other factors that might be connected to both emotion skills and reading more literary fiction, such as past educational attainment, gender and age,» reports the British Psychological Society Research Digest blog, summing up the results.

The FED can and did influence long - term rates via QE (or via selling assets held on its balance sheet), but it was much more disruptive to the financial market and economy, and it came with its benefits and costs.

hawaiiguest We do not know what the world would look like without the continuing influence of a core belief held by the vast majority of humans that existence is more than physical needs and desires.

With respect to Neville's kind of claim, nevertheless, Reeves holds with Cobb that the Whiteheadian God is uniquely creative in the sense that his influence alone is universally effective and infinitely more powerful than that of other actual entities.94

Today, he feels that America is growing more extreme in its dogma, which is «holding a growing influence over American politics.»

You do realize you will be held more accountable than any one of us because of your influence on people?

Regardless of how we understand purpose, then, if we hold that nature is influenced by any sort of final causation, this contention will appear to many to be no more than a stab in the dark without any empirical warrant.

Add that to Pogba's, he instigated to Pogba leave in the first place and then sold him back for 89 million pounds, he basically holds clubs to ransom and make them spend more than is necessary not to talk of his disruptive influence in the dressing room.

Burgess also holds that fathers who interact with their children have more influence over their children's lives than fathers who do not spend as much time with them.

Because the selection will the made by the full Legislature, the overwhelming Democratic majority in the 150 - seat Assembly has far more influence over the process than the 63 - seat state Senate, where Republicans hold a bare majority along with Brooklyn's Sen. Simcha Felder.

«Cracking down on drunk and impaired driving is more than vigilance on our roadways — it requires resources and technology to process the evidence and hold accountable those who get behind the wheel while under the influence,» Cuomo said in a statement.»

It might be a bit more difficult for the strategy to have the same impact this time around, as Killian's ties to Trump are more tangential than Astorino's, and the special election will be held on a date with fewer extraneous factors that might influence turnout.

As a result, far more rural people have run for elective office or held an elective office or know someone who has done so, and rural people have far more influence in a direct democracy manner over their local governments than people in urban areas.

It is now hard to argue against the idea that the Lib Dems should have wielded their influence outside of government, holding the Tories to account in a more public manner than they could within.

So far in the mayoral race, REBNY has taken a less aggressive approach, likely holding off until after the primary when the field of candidates is narrowed and its PAC can have more influence.

Also, there's more than campaign money influencing these final days, this campaign - money birds - eye - view of «the game» is quite superficial, because there's many millions more in «insider» pay - offs going to Republican - held districts.

Entomologist Bart Knols of Wageningen University in the Netherlands cautions that cage conditions are very different from those of the field, where many other factors influence an insect's survival; what's more, the results may not hold up in human malaria, he says.

«Although seas have risen and warmed, and the atmosphere now holds more moisture, we can't yet draw definitive conclusions about the influence of climate change on Hurricane Harvey.

When you go back to your normal protein intake, the body is more apt to hold, trap and retain nitrogen, leading to an increase in growth potential that influences the metabolism.

It is hard to remember how few serious film critics held podiums twenty years ago (when Time magazine carried more influence, for that matter, than all the rest of the media combined — among the handful of moviegoers who read reviews at all).

On one level a genre mash - up revelling in influences as diverse as John Carpenter, Night of the Living Dead and The Stepford Wives, it also ambitiously holds a mirror up to the history of modern America, confronting not overt racism (that would be too easy, not to mention predictable) but a more insidious narrative of coercion and white supremacy whose legacy stretches back across the generations.

If everything holds to form, 2016 may turn out to reflect the talent and increasing influence of older actors in the Oscar race more than any year in recent memory.

Engaging more male champions within every organisation is critical as they currently hold the influence to make this change.

This finding is not surprising; it suggests that in schools where parents and other community members hold significant leadership roles, principals are more open generally to outside influences.

Perhaps even more important, though, they gave Robin and Beth a way to influence the design of each school's programs and a means of holding principals accountable.

The bottom line for me is that, although the more efficient markets often misvalue assets, it's not easy for any one person — working with the same information as everyone else and subject to the same psychological influences — to consistently hold views that are different from the consensus and closer to being correct.

Colonial influences and the advent of jet - age tourism have brought metropolitan centers into the 21st century, while more remote out islands still hold to many of the old ways.

Still, want to see just what kind of influences / impacts he has in his final polish work, and if they hold him back / mention some of the more esoteric Ideas he had his hands working with.

Set social policies to influence the behavior of your colony, hold referendum elections to prove to your colonists that you deserve to keep the job, and give your colonists adequate jobs, health care, entertainment, food quality, policing, and much more.

More than with her other artists, most of whom hold art degrees from places like UCLA and New York University, she wonders about the ethics of influencing Mullen's process, intentionally or otherwise.

With a career extended across more than half a century, Stella both holds an important place in the history of American art and maintains contemporary relevance as his work continues to influence younger generations of artists.

Held at the Adobe Books Backroom Gallery, «Welkom Baek» aims to focus less on representation and more on color and the influences it has on the audience when housing all artists who work more or less in this fashion.

The exhibition will feature sixty - five works in painting, drawing, photography, and printmaking juxtaposed in ways that elucidate how artists developed qualified degrees of reality where the imagination held more or less sway, depending on intention and influence.

From October 2009 to April 2010, coal's influence peddlers held at least 33 meetings with White House OMB staff — three times more than meetings that included university scientists and environmentalists.

More SW held below; upward influence on OHC.

Temperature greatly influences how much water vapor air can hold, he explained, and «there are multiple indications that moisture falls in more extreme events as the planet warms.

They hold influence in altering everything we consume and the way in which we consume it to be more sustainable.

Like it or not, Samsung holds major influence over the designs of other manufacturers, and the company ditching physics keys could encourage more OEMs to follow suit.

The difference of views boils down to whether a National Indigenous Representative Body will assert more influence if it is in control of program funding, as against the view that service delivery is properly the province of government, gets in the way of advocacy and representation, and diverts attention from the main job of holding government to account.

Whereas kissing is commonly perceived as a display of affection in romantic relationships, research highlights a far more nuanced explanation regarding the «function» of kissing within relationships.1 Some research suggests that kissing enables individuals to assess the quality of potential partners by putting individuals in close proximity, making it easier to examine features that are associated with mate value, such as breath and skin texture.2 Other research suggests that kissing elevates levels of arousal, which may lead to sexual intercourse.3 A third body of research suggests that kissing can influence feelings of attachment, alleviate stress, and increase relationship satisfaction.4 Given these varied explanations, the question remains: is there a single purpose for kissing or do all these explanations hold truth?