Sentences with phrase «little influence as»

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The countryside I traversed had little natural beauty, and most of the wild animals had been killed during the civil war; the souvenirs were five times as expensive as similar items in other countries; the Portuguese - influenced food was bland and boring; and when I asked for a doggie bag to take my leftovers back to my hotel, I got charged five dollars for the bag.

The company's overstated political influence was noted by the New York Times political reporter Ken Vogel, who tweeted on Monday that the company's «BIGGEST SECRET» was that it was «an overpriced service that delivered little value to the TRUMP campaign, & the other campaigns & PACs that retained it» and that most people hired it because it was seen as a «prerequisite» for receiving cash from the Mercer family.

Which is why most companies surveyed admitted that the opinion of employees with regard to the corporate security software installed on their personal devices has little or no influence on their decisions, even as three quarters of employees believe they should have some say.

Back - of - the - envelope calculations (described below) suggest that as little as a million dollars could be used to shore up futures positions and influence the auction market.

The concern is not that 1 or 2 people will join a certain group that they are overtly hostile to, as that would yield little or no influence.

Some of these men were friends; some were influences on one another; but as a group they had surprisingly little in common apart from their faith.

Nonetheless, she is surely correct that conversion narratives (such as, most famously, Augustine's Confessions) are of little help in plotting these social changes and that Christianity was indeed influenced by the values of aristocratic culture.

An unbiased view would presume the numbers of homosexual men at that time to be quite small — most likely the 2 to 2.5 percent that is now reported — and as far as I can see from the evidence, these few homosexual men did little or nothing to influence the bachelor subculture at the turn of the century.

Little by little, though the irresistible development of those yearnings you implanted in me as a child, through the influence of gifted friends who entered my life at certain moments to bring light and strength to my mind, and through the awakenings of spirit I owe to the successive initiations, gentle and terrible, which you caused me to undergo: through all these I have been brought to the point where I can no longer see anything, nor any longer breathe, outside that milieu in which all is madLittle by little, though the irresistible development of those yearnings you implanted in me as a child, through the influence of gifted friends who entered my life at certain moments to bring light and strength to my mind, and through the awakenings of spirit I owe to the successive initiations, gentle and terrible, which you caused me to undergo: through all these I have been brought to the point where I can no longer see anything, nor any longer breathe, outside that milieu in which all is madlittle, though the irresistible development of those yearnings you implanted in me as a child, through the influence of gifted friends who entered my life at certain moments to bring light and strength to my mind, and through the awakenings of spirit I owe to the successive initiations, gentle and terrible, which you caused me to undergo: through all these I have been brought to the point where I can no longer see anything, nor any longer breathe, outside that milieu in which all is made one.

I did not consciously come to this conviction under the influence of Wesley, but I have little doubt that as the leader of a great lay movement he would agree.

Indeed we may say, perhaps a little exaggeratedly but not without reason, the liturgy such as it is actually performed today — though, we hope, against its own ultimate principles — this liturgy itself increases this greater danger, because it often has a harmful influence on the private prayer of individuals and groups.

The moral and spiritual contributions of the Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Canaanites, or even Egyptians — at their height so preponderant in power and influence as compared with little Israel — have been negligible in the long run.

If that influence is, as Madden asserts, «seldom recognized by many natural - law theorists,» perhaps my acknowledgment of it will help a little in setting the accounts straight.

There were some influential neo-paganists in the Nazi Party, such as Heinrich Himmler and Alfred Rosenberg, but they were a minority and their views had little influence on Nazi ideology and Hitler denounced Germanic paganism in his autobiographical «Mein Kampf» and condemned Rosenberg's and Himmler's paganism as «nonsense».

The «Father» of the Nation, being the United States of America is quoted saying; «The General is sorry to be informed — , that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing, a vice heretofore little known in an American army, is growing into a fashion; — he hopes the officers will, by example as well as influence, endeavor to check it, and that both they and the men will reflect that we can have little hope of the blessing of Heaven on our arms, if we insult it by impiety and folly; added to this, it is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.»

Perhaps more impressive is the evidence of modern excavation, revealing as it does the influences that beat upon this little land in every age from all the cultures of the ancient East.

Taken in isolation they only serve to muddy the waters.6 Even in Process and Reality the transformation of God into an actual entity is not wholly complete, and to that extent there is some truth in the assertion that «what little influence Whitehead's God has on the actual world... he has as a principle, not as a being or person, and insofar as God is a personal being, he is without any effect on the actual world.

Pursuing the semiotic hints of Heraclitus a little further, one is led to regard the «stuff» of mindings as arising from, or better perhaps precipitated out of, creative affective responses to potential influences.

But this idea has had little influence in the development of rationalistic thought, not surprisingly perhaps since it implies that the concepts of experience and reality are as intimately related as psyche and soma.

I think you need to learn to think for yourself a little more as you are under an illogical influence.

First of all, there is very little theology in America today: dogmatic theology has virtually disappeared, biblical scholarship is largely archeological and philological, church history barely maintains its existence as a discipline; and, in terms of German influences, Bultmann has replaced Barth as the guiding light of the younger theologians.

While this final indicator can be criticized as being subjective (at least on the part of the legal scholar, if not on the part of those who appended the labels on each country's legal system), it is worth pointing out that as only one of eight indicators, this one influences the index very little.

It must be recognized, indeed, that there are comparatively few narratives which correspond in any way to events in the ministry of Jesus, and that where such correspondence is to be found, as for example in the baptism or crucifixion narratives, the gospel account has been so influenced by the theological conceptions and understanding of the Church that we can derive little, if any, historical knowledge of that event from those narratives.

Much of the content of the collection has little or nothing to do with religion at all and popular religion may not have looked to it as the final authority, but higher religion in China has found in it a secure foundation, and morally it has been the predominant influence upon the Chinese people for more than two thousand years.

With Jamaican jerk spices and a little bit of curry powder (a nod to the Indian influence and population in Jamaica) the pork is great even as a standalone item, but a little mango salsa gives it some extra island flair.

O ye of little faith.Just trust me on this one.How many times have owners / presidents come out to say players won't be sold bla bla bla.What he said is just for formality sake.Have you forgotten what Aulas said about Lacazette?Listen Thomas Lemar has his heart completely set on a move to Arsenal.What has even made him firm and influenced his decision the more is the fact that are lot of Monaco players have left and likely more will be leaving.The guy just doesn't want to stay and will likely be an Arsenal player in the coming days.One thing slowing down the deal is Monaco want to be assured they can replace him.The deal is basically a done deal.As I said insider sources are twice as fast as the media.So whether the vice p. likes it or not he'll become an Arsenal player.Mark my words.

The little Spaniard is the key creative influence at City, and as he comes gradually towards the end of his 20s, he might be open to a slight modification in his role at the club as part of Guardiola's ideological approach.

Marcos Llorente Not a great night, as he had little influence on the game at all and it could have ended very badly.

THEO WALCOTT 4.0 Came onto influence the game but could do little in transition as Arsenal succumbed to another defeat in wake of Bayern Munich visit to the Emirates.

I also did a more thorough stats comparison on Squawka.com that showed our little magician having great all round stats and as a little bonus, shows Chelsea's Fabregas struggling to have much influence at all.

«A little muscle issue» is likely to preclude Nathaniel Clyne from the trip but the manager intends to select a strong line - up that is not influenced by the Champions League tie with AS Roma to follow.

There was little in Pogba's performance to cause agitation either way but his influence certainly grew as the second half took hold.

As her report put it: «The research suggests that, while there may be little return to trying to make students more gritty as a way of being (i.e., in ways that would carry over to all aspects of their lives at all times and across contexts), students can be influenced to demonstrate perseverant behaviors — such as persisting at academic tasks, seeing big projects through to completion, and buckling down when schoolwork gets hard — in response to certain classroom contexts and under particular psychological conditions.&raquAs her report put it: «The research suggests that, while there may be little return to trying to make students more gritty as a way of being (i.e., in ways that would carry over to all aspects of their lives at all times and across contexts), students can be influenced to demonstrate perseverant behaviors — such as persisting at academic tasks, seeing big projects through to completion, and buckling down when schoolwork gets hard — in response to certain classroom contexts and under particular psychological conditions.&raquas a way of being (i.e., in ways that would carry over to all aspects of their lives at all times and across contexts), students can be influenced to demonstrate perseverant behaviors — such as persisting at academic tasks, seeing big projects through to completion, and buckling down when schoolwork gets hard — in response to certain classroom contexts and under particular psychological conditions.&raquas persisting at academic tasks, seeing big projects through to completion, and buckling down when schoolwork gets hard — in response to certain classroom contexts and under particular psychological conditions.»

These seven tips can help a man blossom in his role as a grandfather, learn how to best influence these little grandchildren for good and have fun in the process.

He was so very young at the time, but it really was as I described — he just made up his little mind (or someone influenced him) and that was that for years.

The big danger is that the left, because there is little interest in the EU, will allow the Labour In For Britain campaign, in the hands of Alan Johnson, to present something unimaginative and negative, stressing the threat to jobs and the loss of influence that would be a result of leaving, as the general In campaign will do.

This comment sounds a little as if you believed that people living in those «areas of influence» should have no voice about who and how rules their countries.

Hannan's old friend, Mark Reckless, who was a Tory then Ukip MP and then a Ukip and now Tory Welsh Assembly member, said that the then Conservative leadership was «not serious about real change on Europe», and privately described the ERG as «a backwater with little real influence on policy till the arrival of Steve Baker.»

However, he has little influence over an elite unit of fighters, called the Gambia National Guard, who may opt to fight even if vastly outnumbered by the Senegalese and Nigerian forces as they are from the same ethnic group as Mr Jammeh.

But Espaillat, a powerbroker locally, will have little influence in Washington as part of the largely inert House Democratic minority.

While the party leadership promote changes to the tax threshold, the pupil premium and green investment bank as evidence of success, 74 % of those who voted for the party in 2010 (but have since defected) believe that the party has had little or no influence on government decisions.

Which of itself, as FBI statistics routinely show, has remarkably little influence on gun violence.

Surprisingly, the respondents said that it made little difference: they believed their chances of being treated fairly were as good or better online as they were off - line (although Horton paid his Mechanical Turk respondents a good rate to complete his survey which may have influenced their answers).

It included graphs that appeared to show a remarkably close correlation between solar activity and terrestrial temperatures — suggesting that other factors, such as carbon dioxide levels, have little influence on global temperatures.

For example, while both John Sloboda's and Daniel Berlyne's influence is acknowledged, the former appears only in a passing sort of way while the reference to Berlyne, whose Aesthetics and Psychobiology serves as a sort of springboard for the final chapter, is a little strange.

Although much research has examined traumatic brain injury (TBI) as a possible risk factor for later life dementia from neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), little is known regarding how TBI influences the rate of age - related cognitive change.

As a little example Rapp quotes him saying the context of satellite tropospheric temps: «if the influence of the prominent El - Nino of 1998 were ignored, the globally averaged temperature of the atmosphere would display a cooling trend».

As alluded to in our post, one important issue is the possibility that changes in El Nino may have significantly offset opposite temperature variations in the extratropics, moderating the influence of the extratropical «Little Ice Age» and «Medieval Warm Period» on hemispheric or global mean temperatures (e.g. Cobb et al (2003).

Many other factors influence regional climate variations such as the Little Ice Age, the Medieval Warm Period, and the Younger Dryas climate excursion.

As the investigators note, the rapid age - related arterial stiffening and cardiac arrhythmias that appear to be at cause for the majority of deaths in BubR1H / H mice were not attenuated by ablating p16Ink4a - expressing senescent cells — but these tissues had little burden of such cells, so this finding reinforces the conclusion that the multiple aging phenotypes arrested in these mice when senescent cells were ablated is attributable specifically to the removal of their baleful influence on local tissues.