Sentences with phrase «is at least partly»

* Encourage them to go the extra mile by offering a compensation plan that is at least partly performance - based.

However, this sharing can still be considered as a form of prosocial behavior in that it is at least partly intended to benefit others (Batson and Powell 2003; Warneken and Tomasello 2007).

Since the realization of most human rights is at least partly constrained by the availability of scarce resources, and since this constraint can not be eliminated overnight, the international human rights law explicitly allows for progressive realization of rights... While the idea of progressive achievement is common to all approaches to policy - making, the distinctiveness of the human rights approach is that it imposes certain conditions on the behaviour of the State so that it can not use progressive realization as an excuse for deferring or relaxing its efforts.

Thus, despite several decades of research, there is little consensus on whether childhood television viewing has beneficial, harmful, or negligible effects on educational achievement.10 This uncertainty is at least partly due to a lack of long - term follow - up data, particularly for school - age children.

This inconsistency has baffled researchers and is at least partly responsible for the popular misperception that many bisexual men may not be truly bisexual.

The limited reach of the TROL Act is at least partly explained by the fact that it is coming out of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Instagram copied Snapchat's Stories feature, and its rise as a competitor to Snapchat is at least partly responsible for Snap's business problems and lackluster performance on Wall Street.

With the addition, Google is at least partly challenging existing apps like NoWait, which is handy for seeing restaurant wait times.

Officers will also indicate whether they issued a traffic ticket to one of the drivers, indicating a defendant violated a law and so is at least partly responsible for the crash.

The bee die - off is at least partly explained thanks to Wikileaks.

If you bring a negligence action against another driver, that driver may argue that your own negligence is at least partly responsible for your injuries.

In BC there is a right to Quiet Enjoyment which is at least partly the responsibility of the landlord.

The lack of statistical significance in temperate trends since 1998 is at least partly a statistical power issue - there is not enough data (since 98) to achieve a statistically significant result, even if there has been warming.

Consumers are partly to blame, but the blame is at least partly with agencies that set weak environmental laws (eg Scott Pruitt).

40 % is exceptionally high for any wind farm and it is at least partly due to the very high quality of the wind resource in the area.

Though global warming is a factor in Rio's rising air temperatures, urban expansion is at least partly responsible.

It would be interesting to know whether the climate science denial follows the opposition to wind power, or the opposition to wind power is at least partly because the disbelief in ACC causes the person to not see so much need for renewable energy.

Hopefully this will help you see why you have had the reception you have recieved, it is at least partly your own fault.

And let me state very clearly that I am someone who thinks that global warming is real, is happening, and is at least partly, possibly largely man - made.

If the adjustment incorporated by Kennedy et al is correct then the discrepancy is at least partly accounted for by bias in the temperature record rather than a problem with the models.

It reports more than 90 percent have concluded that climate change is real — and of that group, 90 percent believe human activity is at least partly responsible for this phenomenon.

The other is at least partly human - made: a plume of smoke from seasonal fires set on agricultural fields across central Africa.

Sea levels in the Indian Ocean are rising in some areas and falling in others, which is at least partly a result of climate change influencing how the wind circulates air above the surface of the ocean, said study team member Weiqing Han, a climatologist at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

This drop in public support is itself at least partly due to the state of the national economy, as public enthusiasm about environmental action has — for many decades — been found to be inversely correlated with various measures of national economic well - being.

Many experts on the Arctic say that global warming is causing the ice to melt and that the warming is at least partly the result of the atmospheric buildup of heat - trapping gases from tailpipes and smokestacks.

Killian is at least partly right that we have to address consumption to at least some degree.

This is at least partly because of the «see it before it's gone» travel trend described in The Times Styles section last week.

Indeed, it's arguable that her sustained support of new developments within the medium is at least partly responsible for the renewed popularity it enjoys today.

Even the determined and successful heroine of Mrs. Craik's mid-19th-century novel about feminine artistic success, Olive, a young woman who lives alone, strives for fame and independence and actually supports herself through her art — such unfeminine behavior is at least partly excused by the fact that she is a cripple and automatically considers that marriage is denied to her — even Olive ultimately succumbs to the blandishments of love and marriage.

This connection is at least partly responsible for Turkey's diverse and colourful culture which embraces influences both ancient and modern, and from the East and West.

I pass parking lots and hotels as I walk toward the ocean, surprised and kind of disappointed to see that everyone around is at least partly clothed.

His suit as currently constructed will fail, unless he shows that the journalistic speech of the rating agencies is at least partly driven by commercial concerns, and they implicitly profit through their symbiotic relationship with the financial guarantors, who were too highly rated for too long as a result.

However, if they answer they would rent if the price was zero, then the issue is at least partly financial for them, because the price point or rent - to - purchase price ratio is at least part of the decision.

But the low price is at least partly due to the firm's decision to cut its dividend last year, which indicates the utility ran into trouble.

He said that is at least partly because many workers are required by their IT shops to use a BlackBerry.

The fact that a not - insignificant contingent of customers happens not to believe so is at least partly a marketing problem.

That means we never sell a paper that is at least partly pre-written.

This element of the story, I suppose, is at least partly autobiographical.

Apple's lead in the tablet area is at least partly due to the fact that competitors» offerings are still relatively nascent.

The fuel economy boost is at least partly because of a new continuously variable transmission

The HK in the car's name is a reference to Hong Kong's Hybrid Kinetic Group, suggesting this concept is at least partly propelled by electricity.

Whatever oomph may be missing from this engine is at least partly made up for by intelligence.

At just under # 45,000, the Boxster's considerable rise in price is at least partly rationalised with a boost in standard equipment levels.

Reardon told me that studying gaps is useful despite my objections because «educational success is at least partly what sociologists call a «positional good» — meaning that one's educational success has value partly because of where one ranks relative to others.»

Wolf also specifically acknowledged that the fiscal crisis facing Philly's public schools is at least partly a result of the rapid growth of charter schools.

Studies have suggested that this is at least partly attributable to the ability of Catholic K 12 to create a particular (and positive) school culture.

LMD: I believe Versus is at least partly responsible for the zombie renaissance in film and television we see now.

This is at least partly attributed to my relative lack of knowledge of Norse mythology compared to Greek but I estimate that most gamers who come from a similar background as me will find the enemy types and Gods to be far less exciting than in previous God of War titles.

This sugar consumption is not without its consequences as sugar is at least partly responsible for our epidemic of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and premature aging.

Chronic Inflammation increases as we age and is at least partly responsible for falling NAD + levels.