Sentences with phrase «little influenced by»

These serum lipid parameters seem to be little influenced by smoking.32 However, other authors found a clear association of cigarette smoking with low levels of TC and LDL - C.33 In the present study, lower levels of HDL - C were associated with smoking status in men after controlling for several confounders.

Upthread, I've suggested reasons why the CO2 effect is relatively little influenced by chaotic factors, and why anthropogenic warming can be predicted with reasonable accuracy independent of initial conditions.

We had a good laugh then at «critique - good, audit - bad» — an attitude surely more than a little influenced by the name of this blog.

I started out making paintings which were a little influenced by the Pattern and Decoration movement that was very prominent in the late»70s.

Particularly since the 1990s, Goldstein has made extensive trips to secluded communities and cultures in Africa and Asia, which have been little influenced by the West.

-LSB-...] The Abstract Expressionists whose works are on display in this exhibition remain true to abstraction throughout their careers and were little influenced by innovations in the art scene around them.

Maybe I was influenced by Charlotte York and watching too much SATC during formative high school years, but my work style has always been a little influenced by the «museum curator» look.

Hence, Griffin's series includes writings by people who have been little influenced by Whitehead but have come to similar conclusions.

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.

Not exact matches

The designers» work is influenced by femininity and clean lines, like the refined little black dress Michelle Obama wore to this year's ESPY Awards.

«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.

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.

«In sum, we see a global expansion gathering strength and being liberally financed by politicians, politically influenced bankers and academics with little feel for reality.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

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

My very little research shows that he is very much influenced by Nietzsche.

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.

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.»

The second danger is that often under the influence of established powers they might become weighed down in bureaucracy and end up becoming centres of power themselves, which are forced little by little to subscribe to the dominant logic in order to reproduce socially.

Ussher, influenced by the fascination with millennia which had become an integral part of the Christian schema, had little difficulty in making a few minor corrections to Bede's calculations.

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.

The last element of analysis has to do with the particular theological heritage that has influenced many of our congregations, especially in regard to two issues The first is the false spirituality that sees little connection between faith and questions of material well - being, the environment, and so forth ~ The sermon deals with that by stressing God's concern for all of creation, even the animals.

The structures of the Christian church may have little or no part to play in the years ahead, but the world we live in will remain deeply influenced by Christianity, its beliefs, customs, and culture.

You can find a little bit of everything in Texas; our food is influenced by many cultures.

These little treats are the perfect way to taste test your way through this fabulous city, where food has been influenced by Arabic, Roman, and Spanish traditions.

«Matt's style of cooking encompasses a variety of flavors informed by Alpine and coastal influences from his time working in the Rocky Mountains and by the Pacific Ocean,» said The Little Nell's Managing Director, Simon Chen.

The JRW Little League was founded in 1971 by Joseph Haley, a teacher who, troubled by negative influences creeping into his South Side community, wanted to provide inner - city youths with a positive outlet.

Fout, who has known Moss since coaching him in Little League, says Moss has always been influenced by the crowd around him, for good and bad.

«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.

The beautiful illustrations by Molly Brett, Racey Helps and the Little Grey Rabbit illustrations by Margaret Tempest have all influenced my work.

It's so true that little ones are influenced by what their parents are eating.

How many naps your little one needs will be influenced by the length of their naps.

These little gooblets are not really influenced by their frontal lobe.

By concentrating power in the hands of so few, he said, good people are discouraged from running for office because they know they will have little influence on important matters.

He's been sidelined during the campaign by a prime minister reportedly ready to replace him and was struggling before it, so it seems odd to pin the Tories» troubles on a man with so little influence.

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.

In reality the backbench departmental bodies have so far had little influence, but they have the potential to become a vehicle to develop a parallel set of new policies to those being produced by Corbyn's supporters.

Though the funding comes from the state, Cuomo has little influence over education policy in New York other than through legislation — policy is crafted by the Board of Regents, appointed through a legislative process dominated by Assembly Democrats.

I always assumed that the petitions site was designed initially to fob off the Lib Dems when they were in coalition, and then later to make people think they were being listened to by having a little debate with no power or influence that was always ignored.

This outfit derives its resources from the liquidation of the Communist Party's assets built up over many decades by British workers (with a little help from their Soviet comrades) Therefore Progress can have no principled objection to another political tendency with impeccable socialist credentials and a much longer relationship with the organised labour movement to join them in the fraternal contest to shape the direction of Labour's policies and influence the selection of candidates.

These fungi influence our brains by producing a compound called psilocybin, but the origin of this chemical may have little to do with discovering fundamental truth

Like many government AIDS programs in Africa, Botswana's has been heavily influenced by Western donors, who have spent billions of dollars promoting condoms but have placed little emphasis on advising people to have fewer sexual partners.

It's not that Elon Musk has said very many inappropriate things, it's that so much of the dialogue about colonizing Mars — inspired, initiated and often influenced by Musk — uses language and frameworks that are a little problematic (and I'm being -LSB-...]

However, finding out precisely what quasiparticles arise inside a material and how they influence one another is not a simple task, but more akin to a large puzzle whose pieces fit together, little by little, through arduous research.