Sentences with phrase «lesser extent by»

SW radiation, as we stated, is absorbed by the surface and to a lesser extent by water mainly in lower parts of the atmosphere.

First, and most politically, we need to recognise that anthropogenic climate change is driven primarily by the economic logic of global fossil fuel extraction, and only to a lesser extent by the social practices and infrastructure that shape national emissions.

It seems to me that «lukewarmers», to the extent that they are represented by Pielke and to a lesser extent by Betts and Edwards, still have a cultural, or spiritual home in The Gaurdian — or even at ATTP.

About 60 percent of Ontario's current generation capacity is already accounted for by low - emission hydro or nuclear - generated electricity, with the balance provided by natural - gas generation and to a lesser extent by renewables.

They are not unique to pugs, they are also suffered to a greater or lesser extent by other brachycephalic dogs.

i will definitely be more conscious of this in the future, given that i own dodge and cox stock fund, which had the same problem to a lesser extent by allowing aig and fannie to gain increased portfolio share in the fund.

That list includes some blue - chip names, and bear in mind too that most of the venues are backed to a greater or lesser extent by local, state, or national governments.

However, different voting systems are affected to a greater or lesser extent by IIA failure.

Unlike the prudent Gunners, many clubs in the PL are funded to a greater or lesser extent by sugar daddy owners.

That pessimism has continued as the Royals have continued to perform well in the top - flight and has been echoed to a lesser extent by Portsmouth boss Harry Redknapp.

Not exact matches

Con artists take this approach to extremes, but putting on a metaphorical mask (to a lesser extent) is a great technique for any entrepreneur beset by a lack of confidence.

«The rest was largely generated by mining itself and, to a much lesser extent, by collecting management fees from the mining pools it operates and renting out the mining power of its mining farms through cloud services.»

A substantial majority of our merchandise is manufactured overseas, mostly in Europe and, to a lesser extent, China, Mexico and South America, and delivered to us by our vendors as finished goods.

The bottom - line improvement was fueled primarily by reduced production costs -LRB--13 %) and, to a lesser extent, lower SG&A -LRB--2 %) and R&D -LRB--1 %) outlays, which helped mitigate a 2 % year - over-year dip in sales.

«Among the working - age population, the rise in income for middle - class families has been fuelled by higher female employment rates, and, to a lesser extent, by higher wages and tax reductions,» says the presentation delivered to Flaherty.

To the extent that repayment of the principal and accrued interest due under all of the FNPA II Notes held by the Virgin Group would require less than 50 % of such remaining net proceeds, the balance would be used to repay a portion of the principal and accrued interest due under certain of the 5 % Notes held by the Virgin Group.

He's well aware that Puerto Rico was in bad financial shape long before it was hit by Hurricane Maria (and, to a lesser extent, Hurricane Irma earlier this month).

In fact the lack of huge fund flows into equities over the past few years is one of the reasons I'm less pessimistic than many about stock markets, even to some extent in the US which looks by far the priciest market.

The recovery in world trade has been propelled mainly by China and other east Asian economies, which are becoming increasingly engaged in international commerce (Table A1), and to a lesser extent other emerging economies.

The kind of creativity involved, however, strikes me as tautological: one's creativity is enhanced more or less only to the extent that one is limited by the form.

And it will be suspicious, a bit less so, of the theology of the marginals, at least to the extent that it is defined negatively by the margin that separates it from the center.

To the extent animals become conscious, they become less driven by what's best for the species.

about people who experience same - sex attraction trying to live a Christian life, this fuller exposition of his thought on the new ideologies presented a fascinating look into the way in which colonialism — discredited by liberals and to lesser extent many conservatives as well — has gone away from the actual military and political rule seen in previous centuries, to a stealthier and subtler form of the exertion of foreign power.

This too — this exodus that has already been experienced by most churches in Europe and (to a somewhat lesser extent) North America — is an inevitable aspect of the humiliation of Christendom, the pluralization of religion, and the secularization of society.

We can now see that the main framework of the ministry of Jesus in Matthew and, to a lesser extent, in Luke is dependent on information supplied by Mark, and that in Mark we have an earlier and clearer picture of the course of Jesus» ministry, even if it has to be supplemented from the other gospels, especially John.

The book's enthusiastic reception by popular and (to a lesser extent) academic readers took Kirk somewhat by surprise.

Henry Rosemont, Jr. highlights the difference between Abrahamic traditions (Judaism, Christianity, and to some extent Islam) which affirm an intelligible universe capable of being fully understood by human rational and moral faculties, while the less ambitious sages of Asia provide only directions, guiding us to lead more meaningful lives in this world, where full understanding will always be elusive and ambiguous.

This reference just made to philosophical presuppositions identifies our thought with one type of Christian theology and cuts across the dominant tendency in the neo-orthodox movement, where philosophy is wholly rejected by theology as in Barth, or is given a merely peripheral role as in Brunner, and, to a lesser extent, in Richard Niebuhr and Reinhold Niebuhr.

The Wahabi who run Saudi, the uber - Wahabi who formed the Taliban and al - Qaeda, and (to a lesser extent) the Khomeinists who now run Iran all share this idea: Turn back the clock to Our Founding Days (by any means necessary) and Everything Will Be Perfect.

If explaining a state of affairs consists in substituting for a lesser known object ones which are more accessible and familiar, and in then explaining them, the objects of knowledge can be discriminated by the extent to which they lend themselves to this rule of explanation.7 That is, they can be discriminated by the extent to which explaining them can be meaningfully replaced by explaining something else without thereby explaining away just what was to be explained.

Flows of world news are carried across the globe by the major printed news agencies (Associated Press, Reuters, and Agence France Press) and the leading agencies for visual news (Reuters Television and World Television Network, and to a lesser extent CNN and the BBC).

While Chicago no longer exists as a center of process thought and is to a lesser extent than before identified with philosophy - theology dialogue and interaction, it leaves a legacy worthy of study by anyone interested in the history of these modes of inquiry in American religious thought.

These lesser authorities, however, are only authoritative to the extent that their teaching can be corroborated by Scripture.

Policy - making in media regulation, particularly in the U.S. and to a large extent also in Australia, proceeds generally by forming, or at least undergirding, political decisions on the same «objective» and «scientific» basis developed for less ambiguous areas such as public engineering, economics, and regulation of public safety.

The majority of oil palm products used by BASF are based on palm kernel oil and its derivatives; to a lesser extent on palm oil.

They are pulling and tugging Landry, they got desperate with Jay Cutler, Gase publicly ripped his team about not being studious enough, the Ajayi situation, the Chris Foerester situation, signing McDonald to a $ 6 million a year contract BEFORE the start of his 8 game suspension for substance abuse (the suspension was already known to be happening), and now they are showing signs of alienating Ryan Tannehill by not hiding their fascination with Baker Mayfield and, to a lesser extent, Josh Rosen.

So by tripping up just when we were set to take control of the title race, have Arsenal handed the initiative back to Man City and to a lesser extent given United a way back into the race?

By the start of the second weekend, the blowout the Bulls put on the Pac - 12 champs had mostly receded into the background of a chaotic tourney, but that doesn't discount the extent of Arizona's collapse less than a week after cruising to a conference tournament crown.

They either congregate at Bayern — and to a lesser extent, Dortmund — or get poached by foreign clubs after a good season or two.

It does vary enormously by gestational age, size of course, and, to a lesser extent, by race, maternal age and maternal marital status.

In a previous study of 24 healthy women, vaginal microbiome composition became less diverse between the second and third trimesters of pregnancy and just before delivery was enriched with Lactobacillus species, likely contributing to vertical transmission of these bacteria during vaginal birth.21 In a study of 10 newborns in Venezuela, within hours of delivery, the intestinal tracts of infants born vaginally were colonized by Lactobacillus and Prevotella, whereas infants delivered operatively acquired bacteria present on the mother's skin and the hospital environment, such as Staphylococcus, Proprionibacterium, and Corynebacterium.15 Quiz Ref ID Our findings, based on a large group of 6 - week - old infants, indicated that Lactobacillus also contributes to the microbial environment of the gut but to a lesser extent than Bifidobacteria, Bacteroides, and Streptococcus.

Due to a series of actions done and promoted by various agents in the USA starting roughly after 1917, following the October Revolution, and continuing to this day (although to a far lesser extent).

Given that humans are governed by rationality to a much less extent than previously considered and that our moral compass shifts and is determined by circumstances, policy - makers have a key role in harnessing the best or the worst feature in mankind.

ICYMI: Here's today's CapTon morning memo, which focuses on the unusual, and probably short - term, alliance between three governors — Andrew Cuomo, Chris Christie and (to a somewhat lesser extent) Dannel Malloy — forced by Superstorm Sandy.

Any extra credit the party receives for its performance on the economy is offset by its performance on immigration and to a lesser extent the NHS.

• Labour supporters who switched to the Tories early in the campaign, were scared off by the dementia tax and the possible return of fox hunting, and have come back to the fold • Supporters of smaller parties - the Lib Dems, the Greens and to a lesser extent Ukip - switching to Labour • Young voters

The relationship between Buckingham Palace and Mr Blair and, to a lesser extent, Mr Brown were marked by tension.

Personally, I think the Lib Dems should have voted with the Conservatives and supported Hunt, and repaid the loyalty shown by many Tories to David Laws, and to a lesser extent Vince Cable.

The top concern — named by almost half of respondents — was the lack of adequate software or algorithms to analyze genomic data, followed closely by a shortage of qualified bioinformaticians and to a lesser extent raw computing power.

Men dominate S&E professorships, regardless of field and race.10 Among the top 50 universities in chemistry, physics, computer science, mathematics, and engineering, at least 69 % (most times this number is much higher) of the professors are men, according to a report recently released by University of Oklahoma chemistry professor Dr. Donna Nelson.9 The lack of female professors was far greater among minority women.9 Although the number of master's degrees and doctorates increased for every racial and gender category, except for white males, 1 white — and, to a lesser extent, Asian — men constituted the clear majority of S&E graduate and faculty positions between 1990 and 1999.9