Sentences with phrase «meaningful dent»

We believe that only if the investigation into intellectual property issues leads to material increases in the tariffs the U.S. imposes on telecommunication and semi-conductor imports could this potentially translate into a more meaningful dent in China's exports of around 0.8 pp.

A pair of restaurant chains, even popular ones, can't change the practices of the egg industry on their own, and hence can't make a meaningful dent in the total quantity of cruelty in the industry.

The work people find is too low paid to make a meaningful dent.

In short, the Lib Dems could pick up the odd seat here and there - but to make a meaningful dent on the Conservatives, who themselves will be eyeing up dozens of marginal Labour seats, would probably require a campaign based on far more than just opposing Brexit.

As of now, however, CCS is used very little, nowhere near the scale required to make a meaningful dent in emissions.

«We are working hard on dementia, but we haven't made a meaningful dent.

«Economy - wide job creation is unlikely to be rapid enough to put a meaningful dent in the average unemployment rate,» wrote TD Bank economists Derek Burleton and Shahrzad Mobasher Fard in a recent commentary.

Yet even if we reduced our own emissions to zero tomorrow, we would not make a meaningful dent in solving the problem without concerted action by all major economies.

There is a good case for lifting the cap in its entirety: This policy denies access to basic electricity for the world's most vulnerable while making no meaningful dent in global emissions.

Nonetheless, reducing food miles can still make a meaningful dent in our foods» emissions toll.

This would not make a meaningful dent on the demand for articles.

At this point it seems like no company will ever be able to make a meaningful dent in this duopoly.