Sentences with phrase «little influence of»

Thus the extra CO2 comes from the oceans, not from the ice and may or may not have helped to melt the ice (which I doubt)... But anyway there is little influence of the ice volume on the CO2 levels in the atmosphere, either direction.

Thus even if one does attribute only very little influence of temperature on long term CO2 levels, it is simple to match the data.

To me it meant there was very little influence of Thermohaline Circulation / Meridional Overturning Circulation.

But if there is no change in dimming, no change in cloud cover and little influence of aerosols in Australia (and Antarctica), there may be no connection between these all.

Members of Edutopia's National Advisory Council, which include teachers, administrators, technology experts, and ed school professors, report little influence of or even contact with Lucas.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

But where housing is easy to build, it has little effect on prices, and doesn't have a significant influence on the rate of homeownership, he said.

Big ideas sometimes come in little packages, and plenty of smaller businesses have a big influence on their communities, their customers, and the planet.

With a little bit of patience and practice, you'll build your social capital, expand your sphere of influence and form solid, mutually beneficial business and personal relationships.

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.

«We dug a little deeper into the time spent numbers and found that Snap's strong showing was highly influenced by the strength of the younger age cohorts,» said the analyst.

There's just something about the calming influence of nature, even if it's just a little bit in a pot on your desk.

While there is no evidence to suggest Katz was attempting to influence the Alberta PC party to contribute money to the arena project, even the faintest whiff of currying favour has killed what little chance there was for the government to share costs.

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.

My spirituality is realizing that if I do the first two things that fame and money have little to no influence in my experience of life.

Yet even though anchors often have little direct relevance on where a data point should currently reside, they nevertheless influence our perceptions of reality and can take concerted effort to raise once they have become firmly secured.

Nevertheless, while the post-1972 federal taxation system bears little resemblance to that advocated in the Carter report, the report's influence is reflected in the partial taxation of capital gains and changes in tax administration.

I certainly see no advantage in «alienating» the rural voters, but I AM a little tired of how disproportionate their influence is on government decisions.

The fact that you can operate your bitcoin exchange and trading business from your home does not mean that locations have little influence on the success of a bitcoin exchange and trading company.

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.

but to claim it has little or no influence, or even a shrinking influence, is simply a denial of reality.

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.

It's an argument I've been making for years, with little success: Social observers in general and religious folk in particular vastly overestimate the influence of the news and entertainment media.

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.

Morality and our concept of what is good and what is evil has no influence on the progress of events in the Universe outside our tiny slice of time on this tiny little world.

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.

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

Any study of ancient hsitory and linking it in with all the Old Testament biblical journeys into Egypty, including JC's family pilgrimige, plus coming out of and being exiled back to Mesopotaia, with a little Persian, Greek, Roman, etc. influences along the way should make that clear.

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.

Frankly, I am a little skeptical of some of the elements in these creeds since they were developed after Christianity became the official state religion of the Roman Empire, and I fear that some of the statements of these creeds were politically motivated, and were heavily influenced by Roman Emperors, rather than by honestly dealing with the text of Scripture.

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.

The Muslim culture in Sind did not receive much influence from its Arab rulers since the center of the Arab Empire was in Damascus and then in Baghdad, so far from the Sind that the Arabs paid little attention to their distant eastern provinces.

A little financial power means freedom from the influence of others.

We of different or little faith can clearly see the influence of evangelicals, of every stripe, clammering for access to power, and it's tawdry, un-American, and unacceptable.

If God is «omnipotent in the sense of being the only power there is... where there is not competing power, omnipotence means little... The power that counts is the power to influence the exercise of power by others.»

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.

By the middle of the 20th century, that way of thinking had made room for some Catholic and Jewish influences, but little else.

In the past half - century, Christian Theology and History of Religions functioned with little mutual influence.

Third, the Christian church has little access to or influence on the major policy making institutions of our society, in spite of the noisy presence of reactionary church voices and political campaign allusions to religious values.

We pray for the diplomats, and those in positions of influence trying to bring about an end to conflict, and for the «little people» children in schools, people who've been displaced, those who seemingly aren't involved in either side of this bloody war, but whose lives will never be the same again.

«When one considers the caliber of our authors and the fact that the Principia has occupied a prominent place on mathematical shelves for fourteen years, one wonders that the book has influenced mathematics so little» (BAMS32: 711).

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 can almost sense on the screen the influence of childhood classrooms in a Roman Catholic school (where Scorsese was educated) or in a Dutch Calvinist Sunday school (Schrader's Reformed tradition) in which well - intentioned teachers instilled in two little future filmmakers the idea that Jesus resisted temptation because he was God — so if you don't want to spend eternity in hell, you had better follow Jesus.

(Some features of this new structure may be due to Orphic influence, but too little is reliably know of Orphicism to allow anything more than conjectures with respect to its influence on Socrates.)

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.

thus of a sudden to seduce the Church which was devoted to him, and hung upon him through admiration of his genius, his learning, his eloquence, his manner of life and influence, while she had no fear, no suspicion for herself — thus, I say, to seduce the Church, slowly and little by little, from the old religion to a new profaneness, was not only a trial, but a great trial.