Sentences with phrase «less influence over»

With the sun dropping ever lower in the sky, it has less influence over that melt, but the warmth retained in the ocean will continue to eat away at the ice for a few weeks.

Greenspan also argues that while the Fed has a lot of power over short - term rates, it has less influence over long - term rates, which he asserted were more important to housing prices.

Choice policies are likely to elicit more extensive responses in large districts, where individual families have less influence over policies and programs than in small school districts.

Likewise, they have less influence over government, because they speak yesterday's language.

Hunt is legally challenging the idea that he has the right to decide the rules around blood donation in Northern Ireland, in a rare instance of a politician fighting to have less influence over policy.

After all, reducing the power of Tory backbenchers would mean the John Redwoods and the Bill Cashs of the world have less influence over the prime minister.

By this I mean that they have less control over their lives, less latitude in decision - making, and less influence over political, educational, and economic institutions which impinge upon their lives, than is the case with people in the middle classes.

The Fed has less influence over long - term mortgage rates than most consumers think.

Not exact matches

Amazon and Whole Foods have a less than 2 percent share of the grocery market, but should have outsized influence over the category.

Baghdad has much less influence, so if Turkey declines to follow through on its threats, the independence vote could give the Kurdish government some leverage with Baghdad in negotiations over revenue sharing, a longstanding grievance that has not been addressed.

Greater Vancouver's share of national sales activity has diminished considerably over the past year, giving it less upward influence on the national average price.

Additionally, the U.S. economy has dramatically changed over the past several years, with structural factors (largely the result of technological innovation and shifting demographic trends) influencing it in a manner that makes comparisons to past rate hiking cycles less relevant.

The financial services and investment community was even less engaged, staying mostly quiet on suggestions that it wield its considerable influence over gun merchants to encourage firearms - related changes.

Such an arrangement would make it even less likely that the local ordinary would have influence over a particular university, since the ordinary granting the mandate might be thousands of miles away from the Catholic institution involved.

Consequently, if it is not possible for him, psychologically to surround each being with that particular, overflowing affection which characterizes our human love, at least he can nurture in his heart that generalized but none the less real affection for all that is which will cause him to cherish in each thing, over and above its surface qualities, the being itself — that is to say, that indefinable, elect part of each thing which, under God's influence, gradually becomes flesh of his flesh.

As the Pope still has significant influence over the less educated masses in these parts of the World, he has exercised this power by:

(More excerpts here from Manent's new book of interviews, Le Regard Politique — i.e., Seeing Things Politically) When I met Aron I was carried away with admiration for him... Aron desired less than any man to exercise influence over people or to dominate a young man [such as I....

Christianity has been confused in the past, in situations more or less similar to the present, with the rule of the Roman Empire, with feudalism, with the divine right of kings, with the rule of majorities, with the dominance of the Northern States over the Southern, with the extension of Anglo - Saxon influence in the Orient.

Keith the verse go and sin no more is a choice the choice is the giver of life Jesus or go and sin no more change the word sin for death.Its our hearts it chooses to sin because it likes to sin thats our nature and the word is clear that our hearts are deceitfully wicked.How do we overcome by admitting our weakness and asking the holy spirit to help us.That is how i have been able to break sins over my life personally i am powerless in the flesh and i freely admit that but i have the spirit of God at work in my life who is able to raise me above my weakness in him.He empowers us to do that so when you feel weak tell the Lord and ask the holy spirit to help you.The more you rely on the holy spirit the more you walk in the spirit and the less influence sin has over you.brentnz

As the Pope still has significant influence over the less educated masses in these parts of the World, he has exercised this power by: (a) Using some of the Vatican's incomprehensible wealth to educate these vulnerable people on health family planning and condom use; (b) Supporting government programs that distribute condoms to high risk groups; (c) Using its myriad of churches in these regions to distribute condoms; or (d) Scaring people into NOT using condoms, based upon his disdainful and aloof view that it is better that a person die than go against the Vatican's position on contraceptive use.

It's like panning for gold: We pore over the top baby names of the year (and the less common ones too) to spot the trends that are influencing name choices.

I do feel that is unfortunate that RD's in schools may seem to have less power over influencing how school lunch programs are run, often because they have less oversight and are often guided or trying to follow the school nutrition standards.

The main impression from the exchange was of two men talking about events they have little influence over and even less intention of getting involved in.

Immigration experts, however, say that governors have little influence over federal resettlement policy, though they can make conditions less welcoming for refugees in their states.

Less heard from in the discussion over minor party influence is the union - backed Working Families Party, which polled fewer than 1,900 votes for its legislative candidates this year.

«Ultimately you want to be supportive of someone who you believe is going to be the next speaker because ultimately this is a competition and you're in a competition to win so that ultimately you have more influence over what will be said and what will be done going forward,» explained Mosley, who like most reform letter signatories has served less than three terms in office.

The long - term warming over the 21st century, however, is strongly influenced by the future rate of emissions, and the projections cover a wide variety of scenarios, ranging from very rapid to more modest economic growth and from more to less dependence on fossil fuels.

Rather than trying to shoot unhelpful thoughts down in flames, Harris and Gunn suggest changing your relationship with them so that when they show up they have less impact and influence over you.

If subpopulation, lets say, adapted to low CHO, then more CHO might lead to bunch of more or less stealth problems, from indigestion over hyperinsulinemia to microbiota rebalancing (which, now we know, release some neurotransmitters on its own and thus influence not only physical health but behavior apart from their ability to use or create nutrients we need).

Measurements of energy expenditure (EE) in a room respirometer indicate that repeated caffeine administration (100 mg) at 2 - h intervals over a 12 - h day period increased the EE of both subject groups by 8 — 11 % (p less than 0.01) during that period but had no influence on the subsequent 12 - h night EE.

It's also $ 6m less than John Carpenter spent over three decades ago on «Starman» — the picture which Nichols freely cites as the template for his «Midnight Special» screenplay, just as he was articulately frank about the Mark Twain influences on «Mud.»

The latter may be influenced by students» homes and neighborhoods and may give teachers in middle - class suburban communities an advantage over those teaching in less advantaged communities.

Teachers, meanwhile, are far more generous in their assessment of their unions» influence and appear to have become less critical of the unions over the past year.

The further your dog is from you, the less influence you are likely to have over him, the less attention he is likely to pay to you.

There has been a tendency over here to belittle Arp through association with lesser talents who worked under his influence (Moore and Hepworth).

Even less in running averages: by averaging over a multiyear periods we may miss some real oscillatory phenomena that, in turn, influence the general trends.

Do you really think the fact that waters are warmer and atmospheric moisture content is higher now due to man - made global warming (not to mention the «blocking high» over Greenland due to Arctic climate change) may be less of an influence on Hurricane Sandy than some other currently unobserved changes to our climate that occurred 3000 years ago?

If bettors expect that emissions reductions will have a discernable influence on GAT over this period, then it should be apparent in the market value for GAT, which would be less than the IPCC's non-policy mid-point projection.

With a little less than two weeks until the presidential elections (thank god it's almost over...) it's worthwhile remembering that it's not just presidential choices which can influence the future of energy

Momentarily setting aside the unprecedented financial firepower that foundations and environmental groups threw at the fight over climate legislation (there's more to come here on the debate over who wielded more or less influence), there's one graph that — to me — utterly punctures arguments that a meaningful cap - style climate bill had a chance (at least one with any environmental integrity).

There is not the slightest influence of any natural cycle, as long as the inflows are equal to the outflows, which is nearly the case: the variation in net sink rate (0.5 - 3.5 GtC) over a year is less than the increase measured in the atmosphere...

Beck interpretes the latter as the direct influence of seawater temperatures, but the measurements near the floating ice border were just average, not the lowest... Modern measurements give less than 10 ppmv difference over the seas from the coldest oceans to the tropics, including a repeat of the trips that Buch made.

So for example a forecast of average climate over 2029 - 2031 would be less believable than one over 2020 - 2040, because 20 - year averaging would remove many of the kinds of unpredictable phenomena such as volcanoes that could have a much bigger influence on the 2029 - 2031 average than on 2020 - 2040.

Urban heat island effects are real but local, and have a negligible influence (less than 0.006 °C per decade over land and zero over the oceans) on these values.

As for the possibility of migration to better climes, you assuredly would be made most welcome in Australia because over here we give credit where its due and we are, as a nation, less than impressed with pomposity and the trading in influence that seems to prevail in selected areas of the NH (which shall remain nameless so as not to offend anyone's sensitivities);).

Urban heat island effects were determined to have negligible influence (less than 0.0006 °C per decade over land and zero over oceans) on these measurements.

He speaks about the fast residence time of CO2, But that only says how much CO2 is going in and out of the atmosphere over the seasons (about 20 %) but that doesn't influence the total amount of CO2 after a full cycle, if ins and outs are equal, Only how much is added or removed over a year is important, not how much circulates, And that is far less (about 4 GtC / year) than what is circulating...

While there are alternative explanations for the ratios over shorter periods, I remain very doubtful on the possibility of fitting the history of the isotope ratios to any alternative theory that includes the large changes in natural fluxes that are required to make human influence less than dominant factor.

The first is cohort shift: based on their experience and common exposure to social influences, the Millennials, while far from uniform in their assessments of controversial science - issues, are less worked up over them.

You may wonder why the government finds the need to pursue such action since 1) U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have already topped out and have generally been on the decline for the past 7 - 8 years or so (from technological advances in natural gas extraction and a slow economy more so than from already - enacted government regulations and subsidies); 2) greenhouse gases from the rest of the world (primarily driven by China) have been sky - rocketing over the same period, which lessens any impacts that our emissions reduction have); and 3) even in their totality, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have a negligible influence on local / regional / global climate change (even a immediate and permanent cessation of all our carbon dioxide emissions would likely result in a mitigation of global temperature rise of less than one - quarter of a degree C by the end of the century).