Sentences with phrase «meaningful influence on»

He is co-author of the article — «Changing Emphasis in Appraisal Techniques: The Transition to Discounted Cash Flow» — cited as one of nine articles out of more than 4,000 articles published in The Appraisal Journal in its first 75 years (1932 - 2007) that had a «meaningful influence on the readership.»

Not exact matches

Sonnenshein spends much of his time these days with banks, broker dealers, hedge funds, and endowments, pitching them not only on his firm's eight different crypto - funds but also on how allocating a portion of an investor's portfolio to crypto can have a meaningful influence.

As vapid and self - impressed as these shows often are (they usually resemble Kabuki theater more than any form of meaningful political discourse), they still have a disproportionate influence on the direction of our political discussion, and by ignoring an issue they can help to bury it.

Based on experience there may be more effective means than divestment to influence the behavior of portfolio companies and accomplish meaningful change.»

One of the main reasons for the lack of movement on party funding reform is that although the public has the view that influence can be bought, people in no meaningful way support the introduction of significant state funding to offset the loss of revenue from a cap in donations.

Research into how social media websites define us socially and the influence that social media has on our personal welfare suggests that a lack of social participation on Facebook leads to people feeling less meaningful.

There's nothing wrong with having inspirations and paying homage to them, but if you don't expand on those influences in any meaningful way, what's the point?

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.»

In other words, though the reforms had measurable, meaningful benefits for students, they also had a major — and not entirely positive — influence on democratic self - determination, the workforce, compensation, race relations, and local authority.

According to John Hattie, acceleration is highly effective, coming in near the top of his ranked list of influences on student achievement, while enrichment does not reach the «hinge point» at which an intervention has a meaningful effect on achievement.

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.

The influence they leave on those who train them, like the Hoe family, is just as meaningful, Lori said.

Even though Waluigi appears as an assist trophy in Brawl, including him as a playable character will have a much more meaningful and positive influence on the next Super Smash Bros game.

As young men and women, many of them worked on the Federal Art Project, although between 1942 and 1949 all the major artists of the New York School except Hofmann transcended their early influences to achieve a distinctive personal style, and all placed paramount emphasis on content or meaningful subject matter in their art, which was predominantly abstract.

Momentarily setting aside the unprecedented financial firepower that foundations and environmental groups threw at the fight over climate legislation (there's more to come here on the debate over who wielded more or less influence), there's one graph that — to me — utterly punctures arguments that a meaningful cap - style climate bill had a chance (at least one with any environmental integrity).

The «miracle» is that after a very cursory guess at the non-climatic effects on tree growth, they imagine that they can remove those influences through some pseudo-statistical procedure and get a meaningful result accurate to tenths or hundredths of a degree.

Does anyone seriously believe that they can estimate in any meaningful way the «damage», in dollars, over decade to century spans, that would ensue by raising the TOE by 1 - 2 degrees amortized over the same spans, assuming for the moment that CO2 actually has a measurable influence on the TOE?

«There's nothing new in it in a big way; it will not influence CRA's interpretation of future events in any major way and it probably will not influence our decisions on prior cases in any meaningful way.

Family engagement: any role or activity that enables families to have direct and meaningful input into and influence on systems, policies, programs, or practices affecting services for children and families.

It has direct influences on our ability to interact successfully in close relationships and to function adaptively so as to have meaningful lives and be valued members of society.

Family psychology is a complex field, as it includes systems perspectives on the multiple influences on relationships, developmental perspectives on how relationships are formed and sustained over time, cultural perspectives on how society and traditions affect relationships, the intersection of individual differences and social relationships, and practice components in how to affect real and meaningful changes in couple, parent, and family relationships.