Sentences with phrase «meaningful effects for»

Not exact matches

You're going to be setting a tone, a work ethic, and a set of values for the company whether you mean to directly or not, and setting the right example can have a meaningful effect on the mentality of your group.

You might believe that innovative companies should be a force for good in the world, and you see no contradiction between making a profit and effecting meaningful, positive change in people's lives.

However, since Canada's population is concentrated in markets that already fetch their oil at higher world prices, even if western Canadian producers were to access better prices for their products, that would be unlikely to have a meaningful effect on gasoline prices or other segments of our economy.

From no wealth effect realization to meaningful financial market distortions to less Treasury issuance ahead, the Fed knows the costs and the risks (financial bubbles) of further QE are outweighing the less than hoped for positives.

Bultmann called into question not only what could be said about the Trinity, but developed an entire system in which history's effects on doctrine must be overcome so that the Christian message might be meaningful for the concrete individual of the historical present.

Then, within the web of meaningful interpersonal relations, AA proceeds to utilize the alcoholic's growing capacity for self - acceptance and responsibility by saying in effect, «But you can become responsible for changing your personality pattern so that you won't be driven to drink.»

Trying to bait - N - release «noncomforments» via the written word are but idle words to be the least effected ways for trial - N - error statistics renderings ever to be lost in meaningful translations.

For churches already heavily invested (monetarily and otherwise) in computer technology in worship, moving toward this kind of limited use may be a first step in recognizing the effects of PowerPoint in worship and in generating meaningful conversation.

Ultimately, however, since the conflict has not ended yet, it is difficult to say what historians will regard the Oslo process when (or, as disheartening it is to admit, if) this conflict ends, for the Oslo agreement, particularly the original letters of recognition between the PLO and Israel, did have the positive effect of initiating meaningful and lasting dialogue between Fatah and Israel; it will more or less be the basis of any future agreement.

Also at noon, Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic, and Asian Legislative Caucus members; Victor Dempsey, brother of Delrawn Small; Brooklyn NAACP; family members of victims of police shootings; and community leaders, react to the road rage shooting of Small and call for a partnership to effect immediate and meaningful criminal justice reform, corner of Atlantic Avenue and Bradford Street, Brooklyn.

It was slightly better than in my regular TYR shorts, but nowhere near the PR I logged when I donned the racing suit for our editors the first time — all of which suggests that the embarrassment - avoidance effect had a meaningful impact.

Tests of drug effects often rely on short - term surrogate indicators (say, change in cholesterol level), for instance, rather than eventual meaningful outcomes (say, heart attacks).

In such noisy systems, it is easy to mistake a chance observation for a robust, biologically meaningful effect.

«Given the growing worldwide interest in pay for performance programs and the unclear American health policy agenda, these findings should be considered by policymakers when assuming that programs like these simply need more time to have a meaningful effect,» they conclude.

It is uncertain whether other school districts can replicate these effects, because they depend on factors that many have little control over (including the local supply of high - performing teachers), as well as those they do control (for instance, the introduction of meaningful teacher evaluation).

Scientists have discovered several other methane production inhibitors, but 3NOP appears to be the first to achieve a meaningful effect while being safe for cows» health and the environment.

Climate impacts research is in its infancy compared to science on the physical climate, for a number of reasons: attributing cause and effect isn't easy; neither is collecting data over timescales and regions long and large enough such that it's possible to draw any meaningful trends from their analysis.

These results were not statistically meaningful, though, and the researchers didn't find the same protective effects for grilled or barbecued poultry or fish.

«Madhava pledges to effect meaningful change for our stakeholders through socially and environmentally responsible business practices.»

In effect, that lack of explicitness damns The Second Mother, as character relations are hinted at and even primed for confrontation, but without payoff or meaningful conclusion.

I'll even discuss how each color can create a specific mood or effect, in order to make your eLearning course more meaningful and memorable for your target audience.

But this strategy, if well executed, could probably effect meaningful change in some schools, and that would be a real win for children at very little cost.

Assigning a failing grade to a school as a result of high - stakes testing may be politically embarrassing, but it usually has no effect on school budgets and almost never has any meaningful consequences for individual teachers.

The substantial and positive response to the report suggest a powerful opportunity for Turning the Tide to effect meaningful change in college admissions.

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

The substantial and positive response to the report suggests a powerful opportunity for Turning the Tide to effect meaningful change in college admissions.

The degree of private school choice does not have a meaningful effect on the wage for this characteristic.

For a school trip that will have a lasting and meaningful effect, Krakow is the perfect place to explore.

Behind closed doors, insiders may or may not have exchanged their opinions on value - added evaluations, but since the evidence required for a meaningful debate over the real world effects of those evaluations did not exist, I wonder if the lack of research on the policy implications of value - added was considered.

Though the effect is large and meaningful, we offer some caveats to this finding and discuss policy implications for the United States as well as other countries.

The 56 % meeting or exceeding standard for CA's grade 11 E / LA result was an outlier with blinking red lights that defies meaningful interpretation other than a grossly discrepant cut score (to the low side) or some other test development flaw (such as an inadequate item bank for a computer - adaptive test) or an error in the test administration or scoring process, or some weird effect due to the increased number of grade 11 students with scores since EAP moved from voluntary to mandatory in 2015 [which usually would involve a decrease in scores, a reasonable interpretation for the decrease in Math EAP scores this year, rather than an increase in scores].

For example, a 2002 systematic analysis by Dr. Geoffrey Borman and his colleagues of the student achievement outcomes of 29 leading K - 12 CSR models — most of which operated in Title 1 schools — reported that «the overall effects of CSR are significant, meaningful, and appear to be greater than the effects of other interventions that have been designed to serve similar purposes and student and school populations» (Borman, Hewes, Overman, & Brown, 2002, p. 33).

The PS 321 Testing Task Force is a parent - led group that works in partnership with teachers and school leadership to educate our community about the effects of NYS and NYC testing policies and to advocate for meaningful, developmentally appropriate, educator - developed student assessments.

It is unlikely that teacher pensions are a factor in this difference since evidence shows that they do not act as a meaningful retention incentive outside of a small effect for teachers nearing retirement.

By ensuring opportunities for minority and low - income communities to influence the transportation planning and decision - making processes through enhanced engagement and meaningful input, the Department actively prevents disproportionately high and adverse effects of transportation projects on minority and low - income communities.

Obviously in a very small company or private sale this becomes much harder / impossible as it can't be floated in any meaningful way, but versions of this wisdom of crowd type effect can be done by approaching a few outside parties and asking them what they would pay / how they would value it (similar to asking a few estate agents for valuations of a house before a private sale) to at least get some benchmark estimates of what similar private players might pay.

The close - to - zero figures for the value and size factors indicate these have no meaningful effect on the fund's performance.

Julian has requested comments and feedback for «assistance in developing clear rules and meaningful exemptions for activities which have a minimal effect on interstate commerce.»

God of War is a mature exploration of the lasting effects of a violent lifestyle; it's a heartbreaking tale of family tragedy; it's a tight action game with enough meaningful content to last for dozens of hours.

The objective of the meeting, an invitation email explained, was «to construct a network for artists to share information, coordinate responses with established organizations, and leverage our cultural capital to effect meaningful change in our communities, at the state level, and nationally.»

We try to have a meaningful effect on our surroundings, for the benefit of the larger community, while enjoying the freedom of having our own platform for experiments and discussion.

Given the total irrelevance of volcanic aerosols during the period in question, the only very modest effect of fossil fuel emissions and the many inconsistencies governing the data pertaining to solar irradiance, it seems clear that climate science has no meaningful explanation for the considerable warming trend we see in the earlier part of the 20th century — and if that's the case, then there is no reason to assume that the warming we see in the latter part of that century could not also be due to either some as yet unknown natural force, or perhaps simply random drift.

Whereas any efforts to mitigate the risks of, prepare for, or otherwise address our changing climate and its effects should not constrain the United States economy, especially in regards to global competitiveness; and Whereas there is increasing recognition that we can and must take meaningful and responsible action now to address this issue: Now, therefore, be it

No matter how effective we might be in eliminating carbon from the atmosphere, the effects of that might not be meaningful for another 100 years, at least.

For instance, even a relatively modest warming over the coming decades is very likely to have a meaningful effect on the timing and distribution of precipitation and evaporation rates, which will, in turn, have a substantial impact on freshwater supplies.

It's all as it was in those happy carefree days of 2009 and before, BC (yes, Before Cli **** ga **) as we call it now, when the MSM would happily «highlight the most alarmist aspects and downplay any mention of uncertainty» (Zorita), when no doubts were allowed, or should I say expressed, about the holy trilogy of WG1, 2, and 3 — how certain it was that the well - accepted theory of ghg effect, and the impacts thereof, would lead to a Copenhagen / Kyoto utopia of global cooperation, and that the IPCC was cool (whoops, «the request for more research about the social dynamics of the IPCC, of positive feedbacks as described by Judith, is meaningful for me» (von Storch).)

Climate impacts research is in its infancy compared to science on the physical climate, for a number of reasons: attributing cause and effect isn't easy; neither is collecting data over timescales and regions long and large enough such that it's possible to draw any meaningful trends from their analysis.

Regardless of whether the similarity in order of magnitude for these two reports [Stern's and EPRI's] is meaningful or coincidental, and regardless of whether or not it is useful to compare a global to locally projected impacts, the similarity has the unconscious effect of establishing a benchmark for we non-economists.

If the public is fully informed of the magnitude of the existing consensus in the scientific community, if the public is informed of how our modification of the atmosphere is effecting the climate, if the public learn of the magnitude of the effect those changes will have on the common wealth of the entire world, which I expect he would admit is necessarily going to be quite negative, and if the public are then presented with the choice of voting for a government which would take substantial meaningful action, does he suppose that the reaction would then be to do nothing?

The current federal election campaign provides a key opportunity for lawyers to shift the discourse and effect meaningful change towards greater access to legal and justice services.