Sentences with phrase «major driving force»

Both the spirit and notion of social acceptability are major driving forces behind the sweeping changes to Quebec's environmental impact assessment and review regime that are set to come into effect this month.

Engineering and technology are major driving forces behind the UK's economy and innovation is critical to these industries.

In other words, the inherent attractiveness of investing in EMDEs, as opposed to accommodative policies elsewhere, was the major driving force.

Without question, one of the major driving forces pushing stock prices higher is the participation of central banks.

The extensive program of liberalisation of the economy during the past couple of decades was a major driving force behind the improvement in trend productivity growth.

Highly polluting fossil fuels are a major driving force behind this.

As we listen to the political and economic debates in our society relating to competition and privatization, we realize that the major driving force of our social life is selfishness.

It is not inaccurate to say, at least from the point of view of Christian theology, that the search for such a revelation is the major driving force in the history of religion.

The director of the United Nations Environmental Program reported in 1991 that «the global economy continued to be one of the major driving forces behind environmental degradation».

Next up — Ken Friar, aged 82, he's in charge of property matters and was a major driving force in moving to the Emirates.

Over the past two years, foreign investors and people buying second homes have been a «major driving force» in the real estate industry, she said.

«This paper makes the case that, though other factors could contribute somewhat to the early - 2000s hiatus, the Pacific is a major driving force in producing naturally - occurring climate variability that can overwhelm the warming from ever - increasing greenhouse gases to produce the hiatus,» Meehl wrote in an email.

Perhaps not enough mileage is made of biotech's low - tech origins — people have been brewing and baking for thousands of years, after all — or that a major driving force for the industry is a growing and ageing world population and its burgeoning need for food, health care, and energy supplies.

«While age is a major driving force towards decreased fertility, it does not have the highest importance once you have the embryo data,» says Mylene Yao, who co-authored the paper.

It is the first time this mutation has been found to be a major driving force in the development of brainstem gliomas; it is not evident in other brain tumors.

Mutations generate genetic variation, and are a major driving force of evolution.

By introducing change, older men's genes appear to be a major driving force in human evolution, says Kári Stefánsson, founder of the company decode Genetics and author of a study published in August.

The Laurentide Ice Sheet, the major driving force for ocean circulation during the glacials, has also disappeared.

A new paper published in Frontiers in Earth Science by archeologist Dr. David Wright, from Seoul National University, challenges the conclusions of most studies done to date that point to changes in the Earth's orbit or natural changes in vegetation as the major driving forces.

Following transplantation, the researchers observed an influx of T cells — the major driving force behind an immune response — from the mother into the fetus, which subsequently led to rejection of the transplanted graft.

The amounts of salt Americans consume pales in comparison to the amount of fructose eaten on a daily basis, and I'm convinced that it's the sugar / fructose consumption that is the major driving force behind our skyrocketing hypertension rates, not excess salt.

One of the major driving forces between the recently murdered television program Gossip Girl.

Every business is becoming an internet business in some shape or form and SaaS continues to be a major driving force for this sea change.

One of the major driving forces in this paradigm shift is the populariry of interracial dating websites like our white men black women site.

Yet there have been almost no black leaders who have ever come out for vouchers, with two exceptions in recent years — Polly Williams in Milwaukee, who was a major driving force behind the voucher program in Milwaukee, and Floyd Flake in New York, a Democratic congressman who was strongly pro voucher.

Urbanski says the study may reveal what he says is common sense, «And that is that incentives is not is not the major driving force for a teacher, that most teachers already are doing the best job that they can and dangling a few dollars in front of them isn't going to make them teach better.»

Her three children are a major driving force behind her passion for education.

His legacy of doing it his way and not caring what others thought was a major driving force for selecting the GT350 in the first place.

The commitment to providing customers with accessory - packed vehicles at an affordable price is a major driving force behind the entire Kia brand and, by extension, the Kia inventory at Drive Spitzer.

One of the major driving forces for the company has been Zerodha Coin, a platform that allows clients to invest in mutual funds directly without paying any commission.

Education, a major driving force in the economy, has been largely attributed to the city's dramatic population increase over the last decade.

Sanitation, of course, is always a major driving force behind many of the trends in feline waste management products.

While we can not pinpoint the Spay / Neuter Wyoming Program as the sole contributing factor to this dramatic decrease, we share the belief held by participating shelters and municipalities that this program has been a major driving force behind these massive reductions in euthanasia and overall animal intake at shelters.

Just recently, Samantha has also accepted the role of Events Coordinator and has been a major driving force behind getting a fundraising committee off the ground.

Every business is becoming an internet business in some shape or form and SaaS continues to be a major driving force for this sea change.

«The global wellness industry has witnessed incredible growth in recent years as more and more people incorporate healthy habits into holidays and corporate travel, with an increasing trend of travelers willing to commit their time and money to wellness proving to be a major driving force when making vacation decisions,» said Simon Press, Senior Exhibition Director, Arabian Travel Market.

Over the last decade, David Zwirner has undergone an unprecedented transformation and stood as a major driving force in redefining what a gallery presents and how audiences interact with the art and exhibitions.

The process of the de - and reconstruction of the naturalistic image of the human being was one of the major driving forces in the development of painting in the twentieth century and, in the framework of the digital era, is picking up speed once again.

NG: I think the desire to see my work in the world is a major driving force for incorporating certain performative elements into my current practice.

The report found that Obama's stimulus is a major driving force in the clean tech sector, but that green job growth was even on the up and up for a few years before.

As climate talks stall, it's clear the UN process is no longer the major driving force of the climate transition.

Scenarios represent many of the major driving forces - including processes, impacts (physical, ecological, and socioeconomic), and potential responses that are important for informing climate change policy.

The major driving forces on conflict were rapid population growth, reduced or negative economic growth and instability of political regimes.

«There is no solid scientific evidence to date that global warming has been a major driving force of the twentieth century increase in epidemic infectious diseases,» he said.

It also assumes that agricultural commodity prices are a major driving force behind deforestation and that yields decline with expansion.

A new paper published in Frontiers in Earth Science by archeologist Dr. David Wright, from Seoul National University, challenges the conclusions of most studies done to date that point to changes in the Earth's orbit or natural changes in vegetation as the major driving forces.

The major driving force for atmospheric circulation is the temperature difference between the Poles and the Equator — the gradient.