Sentences with phrase «less significance for»

This would further confound attempts to assess their contribution to temperature change during intervals when their net deviation from their baseline levels was large, although it would have less significance for the post-1950 decades when their net contribution would be small even as independent sources of warming.

Do cold patches of ocean have less significance for affecting marine life than warm patches?

In addition, there was a shift upward within the two to four children range although this was of lesser significance for the baby boom than the rise in the proportion having two children and the shifts in the timing of births.

Not exact matches

As for the significance of handholding, Dalton Conley, a professor of sociology at Princeton University, told The New York Times in 2006: «It's less about sex than about a public demonstration about coupledom.»

Of course they may end up disagreeing with Bernard of Clairvaux, Augustine, and Barth about the moral significance of our being created male and female, but shouldn't they be a little less sanguine about it and a little more deferential, to the point of saying, «We believe the tradition made a grave mistake in its disallowance of gay partnerships, but at the same time we acknowledge our deep indebtedness to that tradition for giving us the theological and ethical vision to even make our argument for inclusion»?

It is still a common experience for the missionaries in a pagan land to find the divisions of the Christian church of less significance than in the place of their origin.

The significance of the myth of the end - time for us must be no less cosmic than it was for the ancients, whose breadth of vision, when carefully examined, is little short of amazing.

This feeling for the deep significance of the suffering and death of Christ is constantly present in Mark, as the quotations just above will have indicated (as well as the familiar «to give his life a ransom for many» [See F. C. Grant, The Earliest Gospel (New York and Nashville: Abingdon - Cokesbury Press, 1943), pp. 78ff], and is only less important in Matthew and Luke - Acts.

Such naïveté is now impossible, for Freud taught us what the Bible knew — that the closer one gets to matters of decisive significance for the self (in this case, God), the less able he is to think disinterestedly.

In case he did not know this definitely, then he has not made the infinite movement of resignation, then, though his word is not indeed an untruth, he is very far from being Abraham, he has less significance than the tragic hero, yea, he is an irresolute man who is unable to resolve either on one thing or another, and for this reason will always be uttering riddles.

The fulfillment of personality is thus a form of communion, whether it be with the God a man worships; or with nature under some aspect; or through intimate communication with ideal things, the inexhaustible quality of beauty or truth that pervades the universe; or with some cause that calls into action all one's powers; or even with things of lesser significance so long as they satisfy the human craving for union.

With the proclamation of the Kingdom by Jesus on the one hand and this parable on the other, we are justified in arguing that Jesus, for all the claims he made and implied about the significance of his ministry and message, none the less looked forward to a consummation to which this was related as seed - time to harvest.

It would indeed be startling if Jews were seeking to inject religion into the public life of the nation when for American Jewry as a whole religion has less significance than ever.

I hope I'm wrong but this could be the most damaging win when it comes to transfers... winning 1 game, after about 20 minutes of really good play, is of little consequence in the grand scheme of things... only those with the most selfish of intentions would suggest otherwise... the only reason we're even in this predicament, where were celebrating our first victory of 2018 against a bottom half squad who is managed by possibly the only individual more antiquated than our manager, is because of Wenger's ridiculous mishandling of his contract last year combined with his mishandling of the contracts of our top players this year; a fact that he himself admitted to... so before you get too excited about the possibilities of our current roster don't forget what has happened over the last several years and pray to the gods of football that real quality reinforcements like Auba are on the way, which could have happened years ago for less money and we might have been holding a trophy of some significance, or this brief respite will be followed by the usual mediocrity and stagnation

Pizza and chicken nuggets might not be healthy for their bodies, but according to parents like Siegel, the ideas that fuel their minds are of less significance.»

The small differences in IQ points between breast fed and bottle fed children, 21 and between children breast fed for less than five months or more than five months, 10 are unlikely to have clinical significance.

Similarly, the unadjusted difference of 8 points between children who were breast fed for less than 3 months, compared to those who were breast fed for six months or more, is unlikely to have clinical significance in a population with a mean IQ at age 5 of 109 points.

Asked about the Wandering Dago case and whether the importance of emails can be assessed in 90 days, he said: «There are any number of situations that have arisen in which a record, or for that matter, a judicial decision might appear to be less than significant but would take on additional significance with the passage of time or the occurrence of events.

«But the larger significance will possibly be one less reason for any person, male or female, to argue that women are not as capable as men in the role of scientist,» she said.»

For retention block 4, we compared the median latency and median excess path length for navigation to store locations that had been learned while stimulation was applied with those learned in the absence of stimulation during blocks 1, 2, and 3, using the Wilcoxon signed - rank test, with a P value of less than 0.05 considered to indicate statistical significanFor retention block 4, we compared the median latency and median excess path length for navigation to store locations that had been learned while stimulation was applied with those learned in the absence of stimulation during blocks 1, 2, and 3, using the Wilcoxon signed - rank test, with a P value of less than 0.05 considered to indicate statistical significanfor navigation to store locations that had been learned while stimulation was applied with those learned in the absence of stimulation during blocks 1, 2, and 3, using the Wilcoxon signed - rank test, with a P value of less than 0.05 considered to indicate statistical significance.

Achiote may be lesser known among the common household spices, but this fragrant and colorful herb can actually be found in many homes around the world, either explicitly added for cultural significance or subtly present as a dye in processed foods.

Therefore, most of the remainder of Jaminet's post that deals only with potential risk to health of glucose levels takes on less significance, but let's look further for more clarifications and explanations.

For instance, De Palma's prom scene, which features tense, split - screen moments of suspense, is replaced with cheap snafus that culminate in the climactic moment being replayed from different angles no less than three separate times, in case we missed its significance.

Run Lola Run for the Lincoln Plaza sect, but with less pop and significance.

Of the many thrills that come from interviewing creative people — variously, unknown, ascendant and at the top of their game — there's also the under - discussed flipside: talking with, 1) vapid young «actors» (line - reciters is more like it) who have neither a sense of film history nor an appreciation for their occupational good fortune and, 2) perfectly genial writers and directors who are nonetheless so relentlessly on script — occasionally reciting entire career - checking passages verbatim from press notes no doubt spit - polished into significance by some friendly faction in the dark wings — that you realize they actually have less summary insight or thoughts about several months or years of their own work than you do after 90 to 120 minutes with it.

Chalkbeat's Matt Barnum writes that, under ESSA, schools «across the country are about to be held accountable for student attendance — attaching stakes to a measure that previously had much less significance and increasing the risk that schools will try to manipulate that data.»

«The significance for the quality of the workforce and student outcomes is less clear: SAT scores alone don't explain variation between teachers.»

I suspect we're talking around the same topic, getting at it in different ways, in our own terms, preferring our own conceptualization of it yet overlapping so much that whatever differences there may have less practical significance for authors than recreation for you and me.

Whether it is the PDO, or another natural oscillation (my money's on the AMO), which is holding global temperatures more or less constant its significance is not just as a weapon for sceptics in the future.

Choosing lower and upper limits that encompass the range of these results and deflating significance levels in order to account for structural uncertainty in the estimate leads to the conclusion that it is very unlikely that TCR is less than 1 °C and very unlikely that TCR is greater than 3.5 °C.

It was Fisher who suggested 95 % to be the level of significance for much statistical work, but if you read Fisher you'll see that he understood that for some fields much greater than 95 % should be asked for, and in other, less.

In some fields the gap is less pronounced; for example, the significance of tax planning constraints and opportunities is impossible to understate, particularly in difficult and sensitive times.

There was also a trend for A.A. - attenders to drink less frequently and in lower daily amounts, but this did not reach statistical significance.