Sentences with phrase «little influence at»

So, income and affordability are secondary, with the credit score having little influence at all.

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Thus, it might have at least a little hope of a broad - based, albeit hardly ideal, appeal to some of the various groups vying for influence over the directions which policy makers choose to take.

While the cabinet members felt at the time that they were seriously involved in the war effort, the unnamed former minister, in retrospect, said he realized how little power and influence they actually wielded.

There were also many other little nuggets of value like: computing the Intrinsic Value of a scrip, buying scrips in industries within our circle of influence, knowing a company by just looking at the balance sheet, and the auditor's report, value investing in general, admitting one's mistakes, and being objective.

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.

On face value, W. E. Hocking's remark that when Whitehead arrived at Harvard «his speculative structure... was already well advanced in its main outlines» is a bit of external evidence against my hypothesis, but it may mean nothing more than that Whitehead was little influenced by the philosophical opinions and controversies of his American colleagues during these years, which seems very much to have been the case.

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.

The Unions are why we have a middle class, I admit they do go a little too far at times and we should reevaluate their influence but without them we would be all be working in sweat shops (all except the rich).

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.

And yet there is remarkably little to show of English influence in the new republic at the level of myth and symbol.

One of the little men is a boy called Ned, and he is a boy of wavering moral character; but at Plumstead School he comes under the influence of Professor Bhaer, a German pedagogue who has an unusual method of discipline.

D. E. Nineham points out that «most commentators accept at any rate the basic facts of the story, arguing that Christians would have been unlikely to invent a tradition in which Jesus receives hurried burial from a pious Jew, and his own followers have no part in the proceedings ’15 and then goes on to add that «scholarly opinion has perhaps been a little inclined to overlook the possible influence of the Old Testament on the story».16

Here was Alyssa Rosenberg at the Washington Post claiming that the whole point of Wonder Woman is that she's a role model for prepubescent girls, a kind of «Fearless Girl» avant la statue: «[T] he movie... argues that it's... little girls all over the world who stand to gain if they can grow up free of the distorting influence of misogyny,» Rosenberg wrote, with a schoolmarm's didacticism.

(Matt 18:3, 4) At Luke 9:48, Jesus used the expression «lesser one» (Greek mikroteros) that means someone who is modest, humble, lowly, insignificant, or of little esteem and influence.

At the same time, however, I have called attention to the difficulty of trying to work out an «ecological» approach to social policy when we, like the chaos scientists, know so little about how to predict and influence long - term developments.

I posit that the world would be a harsh unforgiving and very dangerous place with little influence of good to soften the selfish desires of mankind to gratify their own lusts, at any cost to others.

To describe the Divinity School faculty's perception of the problem in this way is to say little more than that it participated in the Social Gospel movement which was gaining wide influence at the time.

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.

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.

So the whole menu at Pomelo is kind of like that — a little Italian, Thai, or Japanese influence here — Cuban or Southwest there... Somehow it actually works.

However, he sums up, «In general I would say a lot of my influence for my higher end clients is often about focusing on more elegant styles — often looking at options of reducing alcohol a little, sometimes reducing the amount of new oak in some styles — not what many would imagine of a New World based winemaking consultant.»

Lion boss Stuart Irvine, who was in Geelong on Monday morning to launch the nation's biggest brewer's new Little Creatures brewery, said his company's lightening purchase of a 10 per cent stake in takeover target WCB two months ago would deliver it a «seat at the table» and influence over the direction of the outcome.

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.

And while I would not say that he has been poor at it this season, because the stats tell you that he is passing and creating chances more often than any other player in the Premier League, the little magician has not had quite the same influence for us.

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.

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.»

This amazing transformation from an egg and a little swimmer, to a fertilized egg and, ultimately to a tiny, but fully formed baby takes place in a matter of weeks, and while your baby is developing during this period, she is at her most vulnerable to outside influences.

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.

Indeed, some readers may find it curious that a professional organization with the reach and influence of the American Academy of Pediatrics should give so little formal policy guidance on the subject of flavored milk at the same time it is accepting money from the dairy industry and participating so closely in the industry's promotion of that same product.

Let's take a deeper look at it now that a little time has passed and see what we can learn, since writing a column for the newspaper is a time - honored way to influence the public discourse, whether to promote an idea, an...

Let's take a deeper look at it now that a little time has passed and see what we can learn, since writing a column for the newspaper is a time - honored way to influence the public discourse, whether to promote an idea, an opinion or your own reputation.

His roles in Europe mean that he is likely to play a role in influencing the domestic debate over the EU referendum and the lack of a viable alternative candidate at this crucial time leaves the party with little other choice.

It is felt he has succeeded a little in getting Cameron and ministers to concentrate more on the issues that they believe voters really care about; but many MPs were shocked at the extent to which this unelected import influenced the July reshuffle, and particularly his role in Michael Gove's defenestration.

«Previous studies have linked intake of high fructose corn syrup sweetened beverages with asthma in school children, but there is little information about when during early development exposure to fructose might influence later health,» said Sheryl L. Rifas - Shiman, MPH, a study lead author and senior research associate at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute.

Both his parents belonged to the scientific world, but that had little influence on his decision to study physics at university.

«The data from Ryu and colleagues add to the strong and alarming evidence that sitting too much and moving too little has significant negative consequences for cardio - metabolic health,» commented Michael I. Trenell, PhD, Professor of Metabolism & Lifestyle Medicine at Newcastle University, UK, and an expert on how lifestyle influences lifelong health and wellbeing and chronic disease.

At that time, little was known about the molecular biology of development — how what's going on in the development process itself influences what can happen to the evolutionary trajectory of cells and organisms.

Serbian academics say the academy is a political move aimed at increasing tensions between Serbs and Bosniaks in the region, and some Bosniak scientists say the new organization is an attempt by Muslim clerics to increase their influence that adds little to the existing academies of science in the region.

We understand little about factors influencing success at university.

«Clearly there is little consensus about the appropriate policy for treating infants born at low gestational ages, and yet hospital practices regarding the initiation of active intervention have a dramatic influence on rates of survival and survival without impairment,» wrote Neil Marlow, D.M., University College London, in an NEJM editorial that accompanied the research paper.

At the same time, the introduction of genetically engineered crops had little apparent influence on the rate at which agricultural productivity was increasing over timAt the same time, the introduction of genetically engineered crops had little apparent influence on the rate at which agricultural productivity was increasing over timat which agricultural productivity was increasing over time.

Various manipulations of the data showed that two major potential confounding factors, SNP ascertainment bias and weak selection at presumably - neutral sites, had little influence on the inferences from their data set.

Lengthy and expensive reviews that are «methodologically robust» but unusable in practice often fail to inform, inspire, or influence.55 A recent systematic review of diabetes risk scores revealed that the authors of most studies were primarily concerned with the intellectual concept of improving the predictive value of the score but had given little or no thought to how their score might be used, by whom, or for what — nor what the implications would be for real people who would be designated «at risk» by the score.56

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.

According to Gao Xing, an archaeologist at the IVPP, this suggests that local hominins evolved continuously, with little influence from outside populations.

A mom's weight at the time of birth can also influence her little one's risks for conditions like diabetes and obesity later in life.

The record begins with the sense of being in a huge venue, the show is about to start, ant Arcade fire is impatient to show what they've done, then Everything now starts and you begin to feel it, it's a gorgeous move, as they use to do, after it the synthesizers start on and on, a little to much but considering thomas bangalter's influence on the album, it is pretty amazing, the lyrics are not as good as their other albums, but they compensate it with a great concept about having everything now, wanting to get infinite content and dying inside feeling the electric blue, at least i recommend the album for a few listens to grow on you people instead of criticizing it.

Some of these seem a little surprising given the lineup of the last few games, but again, that's the MCU influence at play — and not having the X-Men license, of course.

The body of the score is generally a little lighter, with obvious influence at times coming from Alexandre Desplat (who was launched to film music fame when he scored another film set in the 17th century Netherlands about a woman in a portrait).