Sentences with phrase «impact than event»

Farhadi is a man more interested in impact than event.

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The key concept is that severity is king, because the impact of an event is way more important than the likelihood of it occurring.

The throwback theme even has an impact on social engagement: Last year's event experienced the broadest reach and engagement on NASCAR social platforms other than the Daytona 500, the sport's marquee race, and NASCAR digital platform visits increased by 35 percent.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

The movie, «The Social Network» might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years.

More than three - quarters said the presidential election is a «game - changing» event that will have a major impact on the direction of the country.

«Sandy event is much more severe... and has impacted NYC to a much worse degree than Irene,» RMS said in a storm report early Tuesday.

Humans have a tendency to place particular events into mental compartments and the difference between these compartments sometimes impacts our behavior more than the events themselves.

An analysis by University of Chicago Law School economists David S. Evans, Howard Chang, and Steven Joyce entitled «The Impact of the U.S. Debit Card Interchange Fee Regulation on Consumer Welfare: An Event Study Analysis» quantifies just how much consumers are expected to lose, rather than gain, from The Durbin amendment.

Through the Let's Play and Good Sports partnership, the St. Louis Pick - Pack - Play event will impact more than 29,000 kids over the lifetime of the equipment.

However, this effect is less likely to impact mortality reports than questions on more subjective or less memorable events.

Here are a few common «lack of focus» examples I see amongst founders all the time: — Doing shit that makes them look busy, but doesn't have significant impact — Trying to do too many things instead of one thing really well — Getting things done themselves instead of taking time to build the team — Fundraising when it's not time — Acquiring users when existing ones keep churning — Adding features instead of fixing or removing the ones they have — Having multiple audiences, rather than one very targeted — Paying attention to vanity metrics or too many metrics instead of core KPIs — Following the competition's every move — Obsessing with getting up on TechCrunch (or other press)-- Attending multiple networking events a week

Through the Let's Play program and Dr Pepper Snapple Group's partnership with Good Sports, the St. Louis Pick - Pack - Play event will impact more than 29,000 kids over the lifetime of the equipment.

First, the tail risks (low - probability, high - impact events) in the global economy — a eurozone breakup, the US going over its fiscal cliff, a hard economic landing for China, a war between Israel and Iran over nuclear proliferation — are lower now than they were a year ago.

Most Canadians (54 %) say they participate in these sorts of events at least «sometimes,» and more than seven - in - ten (72 %) feel that this approach has at least a «fairly meaningful» impact on the charitable organizations involved.

Probably more important than anything that was said that Sunday morning was the symbolic impact of this event.

While I appreciate Cessario's discussion of the dilemma facing Pope Pius IX, torn between his religious obligation to raise the child as a Catholic and the humanitarian plight of the child's parents, Cessario seems more interested in the PR impact of the event than in the parents» loss of their child.

Through the Let's Play and Good Sports partnership, the St. Louis Pick - Pack - Play event will impact more than 29,000 kids over the lifetime of the equipment.

This increase is necessary because the baby's neck is not developed enough to support the weight of the head, which is proportionately bigger than an adult's head, and this leads to a risk of injury in the event of a head - on impact.

«The devastating human impact of these events underscores that, nine years into the conflict, measures to protect Afghan civilians effectively and to minimize the impact of the conflict on basic human rights are more urgent than ever,» UNAMA's director of human rights Georgette Gagnon said.

On Thursday, June 21st, United Way of the Southern Tier will be rallying hundreds of volunteers throughout the community for United Way Worldwide» s Day of Action, an annual event that mobilizes the caring power of volunteers to make a meaningful impact in more than 400 communities around the world.

But consider the matter from the viewpoint of the J Alfred Prufrock MPs of the Tory backbenches — the real players in the present drama, since their lack of attachment to faction or viewpoint is more than compensated for by their relatively large numbers and, therefore, their decisive impact on internal events.

It is significant that he chose to reveal that plan (which doesn't really have any details yet) in front of an audience of potential 2020 Democratic candidates and national politicos at a Center for American Progress event in Washington, D.C., rather than here in New York, in front of the very people whose lives any policy change would impact.

Several teachers attending Monday's event spoke at length about the impact of Common Core testing requirements, saying they result in more «teaching to the test» rather than substantial learning and mastery.

Asked what the next government should do in the event that it has to find more money than it expects, 30 per cent said it should increase taxes more than planned «in order to limit the impact on public services», but 55 per cent preferred to «reduce spending more than planned, in order NOT to increases taxes further».

«Rather than trying to assess the probability of an extreme event occurring, a group of researchers suggest viewing the event as a given and assessing to which degree changes in the thermodynamic state (which we know has been influenced by climate change) altered the severity of the impact of the event,» notes Dorit Hammerling, section leader for statistics and data science at the Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences, National Center for Atmospheric Research.

Damages from extreme events like floods are even more relevant than the mean sea level itself when it comes to the costs of climate impacts for coastal regions.

In today's context of global change leading to extreme climate events impacting habitats, this message is more important than ever.

«Fish assemblages are significantly impacted by loss of coral cover as a result of bleaching events, and some fishes are more sensitive than others,» said co-author Prof Nick Graham of Lancaster University.

«This is the strongest evidence from fossils that the main driver of this extinction event was the after - effects of a huge asteroid impact, rather than a slower decline caused by natural changes to the climate or by severe volcanism stressing global environments.»

More than 60 telescopes on Earth and in space watched the event, many of them also monitoring the comet in the weeks before and after the impact.

Shermer's article is a shallow and tendentious treatment of a complex subject that does not take proper account of rebuttals to critical attacks on the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, in which a comet strike more than 12,000 years ago caused the megafaunal extinction in North America, and misrepresents the state of the argument around my theory that this event wiped out an advanced human society as well.

Their research also suggests that certain harmful events in childhood can potentially have a greater impact on fertility than others.

The date of the impact, estimated at slightly less than 66 million years ago, converges with the hypothesis that worldwide climate disruption in this period caused a mass extinction event in which 75 % of plant and animal species on Earth suddenly became extinct, including all non-avian dinosaurs.

Just how stressful life events impact on the size of the hippocampus depends on more than just environmental factors.

According to the results of the study, just how stressful life events impact on the size of the hippocampus depends on more than just environmental factors.

They combined this information with the land surface temperatures measured by satellite and found that more than half a million people — about 10 percent of the population — inhabit neighborhoods that are most vulnerable to heat event health impacts.

Applying biomechanical formulae to a treasure trove of thousands of fossilized leaves of angiosperms — flowering plants excluding conifers — the team was able to reconstruct the ecology of a diverse plant community thriving during a 2.2 million - year period spanning the cataclysmic impact event, believed to have wiped out more than half of plant species living at the time.

Crashes with more than 50 deaths, on the other hand, were identified as high - impact events.

This period was apparently associated with increased meteoric impacts (around 100 times more frequent than today) associated with the break - up in the Main Asteroid Belt of the L - chondrite parent body — the largest documented asteroid breakup event over the past few billion years.

An improbable event with very bad consequences (the high population scenario) is much more relevant for policy decisions than an improbable event in which impacts are less severe.

The area suffered the worst bleaching event ever, one that impacted over 90 percent of the reef and killed more than a third of its corals.

Volcanic eruptions and impacts from celestial bodies, like asteroids, have a near instantaneous effect, but very few of these one - time events are of sufficient size to impact the global climate for more than a few years.

Tricia's program has had a more lasting impact than any other workshop, seminar or event I've attended: I consider her guidance with literally every meal.

One of those brain hiccups is the «negativity bias,» in which negative events tend to impact our thinking much more than positive ones.

The events of Long Road Ahead are therefore hard to process but make an even greater impact than any of the other episodes.

The scenes of this film have more impact than any other horror film since this is based on real events.

Once there, his weight (nine pounds more than the next contestant), lack of financial support, long - sightedness (which required him to wear glasses that frequently fogged during the competition) and fear of heights adversely impacted his medal chances, and he finished last in both his events.

The fact that the audience (if they saw «Cloverfield») knows more about their situation than the characters do hurts the impact of the final 20 minutes, and it allows all the prior events to be interpreted individually, resulting in a bunch of questions.

While much of the attention at Paris is focused on reducing emissions in a bid to keep global temperature rise to less than two degrees Celsius by the end of the century, many climate impacts will continue to increase — including rising sea level and more extreme weather events — even if greenhouse emissions cease, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.