Sentences with phrase «less consequential»

While many have speculated that low refinance rates are keeping homeowners from pulling the trigger to sell, the survey found that this factor is less consequential than expected.

It's vital whether we are in danger, or whether our distress is less consequential.

The applicant starts with strong, useful skills (hospitality management, staff supervision, customer service), and moves on to less consequential but still important traits, such as being organized and efficient.

The defense lawyer is less consequential because he or she often could care less and may actually want the billing opportunity of a trial.

Affirmative action may be less consequential when the question is whether a minority freshman will graduate, but it greatly affects the number of minorities who will get degrees, and it is the latter that is socially most important.

They are used interchangeably, but global warming is more precise, but less consequential.

Most of the disagreement in the literature on tropical cyclone projections concerns the incidence of weak storms, but these are usually far less consequential in spite of being more numerous.

Some manufacturers choose to equip their hybrid vehicles with minimal gasoline powered engines, and then use a more powerful electric motor, or multiple motors; others use a powerful gasoline engine with a less consequential electric motor.

As it turned out, her tenure has proven much less consequential than her opponents predicted.

Spending in other major categories also accelerated sharply during that time, though their relatively lower costs have been less consequential for state and local budgets overall: health and hospital spending increased 67 percent, from $ 465 to $ 777 per resident; police and fire protection grew 59 percent, from $ 284 to $ 450; and corrections grew 66 percent, from $ 134 to $ 222.

This attitude has made us less consequential on the world stage and alienated many of us inside the UK from a country we used to admire.

Ideas, ideals, loyalties, passions, aspirations can not be directly observed, but their role in human history is not the less consequential, nor their study less significant or valid.7 Nor do the transcendent matters to which these may, no doubt inadequately, refer, have a status in the universe the less solid.

It means cooking out on the grill, digging out our crimson sweatshirts, nearly peeing in our pants after a last - second field goal attempt, and falling asleep on the couch to the sound of the crowd noise from another, less consequential (Big 10) game.

Or for any number of other, less consequential reasons.

The one that drew so much attention, I suggested, would ultimately be judged less consequential.

The New York Fed also reported that the regional housing sector had a less consequential effect on regional economic conditions than in other parts of the nation where housing played a more significant role in dampening economic activity.

This is less consequential in terms of its potential to push forward Trump's agenda; governors have sway over state bills, not federal legislation.

Not exact matches

«(W) hen we bring research on divorce into conversation with rich, emerging bodies of work on social contagion and cultural trauma, we see that bystander effects, while indirect and diffuse, may be no less real or consequential, and that they beckon us to individual and collective reflection on the broader effects of the «divorce revolution.»»

The reforms were implicitly viewed solely as an aspect of executive policy - making and, therefore, in consequential terms as no more or no less independent from government control than any other aspect of policy.

More consequential but less entertaining was yesterday's news that Maya Wiley, the mayor's counsel, was also resigning — in the midst of several federal investigations swirling around the mayor's fundraising and actions he's taken in office.

If the effect of these is a fall in the volume of property transactions with a consequential reduction in revenue, there is then less money to spend on public services and it is then hard to see the changes as especially progressive.

If less is spent in England in these service areas, then the formula produces negative consequentials.

«Paying attention is less important and is taken less seriously than it used to be, and that's very consequential for driving.

Still another hypothesis would be that there was a slightly less dramatic but still - consequential spillover of vehicles from Jakarta's central business district to feeder streets.

While everyone in educatorland obsesses over the $ 4 billion competition among the states for Race to the Top (RTT) funding, the Education Department (ED) is readying a separate competition for less than one - tenth as much money that may nonetheless prove far more consequential for American education over the long term.

Now, less than a decade later, the art critic for The New Yorker has proclaimed him «the most consequential artist to have emerged since the 1980s,» while New York Times critic Roberta Smith predicts he's «bound for greatness.»

(It seems to me that in the US we spend a lot less effort preparing for «natural» risks that are better understood and known to be consequential, such as seismic risks or even meteor impacts, than we do dealing with fairly conjectural things like micro-dose exposures to «toxic» chemicals.)

Groups such as juries that are charged with reaching consequential decisions often polarize (Sunstein 2002), whereas Fishkin's «juries» (deliberative polls), in which the participants are not asked to reach a collective decision at all, are less likely to do so (Fishkin & Luskin 2005, p. 293).

Bloomberg states that «the measures» effects on politics and governance, while they will be less visible, could be more consequential for broader segments of society.»

It will be awards for consequential losses (special damages) and, more than that, costs, which are generally no less in a human rights claim than a common law action.

The less you are around, the more consequential decisions are about childcare, school, household rules, what traditions are valued, how vacations are constructed and how conflicts are resolved.