Sentences with phrase «more consequential»

Based on such gender differences in the emphasis placed on interpersonal relations, particularly within the family, we expected that perceptions of mothers» favoritism would be more consequential for daughters than sons.

The less you are around, the more consequential decisions are about childcare, school, household rules, what traditions are valued, how vacations are constructed and how conflicts are resolved.

Another reason is that even though the opportunity cost of work is, in absolute terms, lower for low - SES parents, losing a week's salary to deal with a sick child may be more consequential for low - income parents.

Without getting into numbers, which could be misleading, the key takeaway point is that much research shows that negative experiences are generally more memorable, more reactive to the body, and more consequential in how we feel and see the world.

«How couples argue and disagree about issues appears to be more consequential to the success of marriage than whatthey argue about or how often they experience conflicts.»

Start small by validating their restaurant preferences, and watch them become more comfortable asserting their input in more consequential situations.

In the meantime, as Uber grappled with its series of unfortunate events under the leadership of its new CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, another more consequential movement was taking shape.

However, there is a small percentage of Americans who are utilizing a life insurance contract in a much more consequential way, and this type of policy is called ordinary life insurance.

But I've been contending with the legal system since a judicial review (that was initially determined in my favour) in 2003 and I have a list of very serious concerns that in my view are more consequential than the costs issues.

There we are simply assured that global macroeconomic trends are much more consequential for those industries than any measures taken pursuant to this trade deal.

The injunctive relief at issue in Harmar is more consequential: it would block widely accepted, essential, and intensely competitive practices.

Then two decades later we had an even more consequential development: the Internet.

These disputes reduce available court time for more consequential issues like parental abuse or the alienation of a child by one parent.

Bloomberg states that «the measures» effects on politics and governance, while they will be less visible, could be more consequential for broader segments of society.»

1 I hear it all the time, and rarely related to anything more consequential than Edelman's $ 4.

Still more consequential, however, was Pouillet's advancement of the work of Fourier, and its transmission to future researchers — most notably Svante Arrhenius, who cited the Mémoire sur la chalure solaire... in his famous 1896 paper, On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground.

Climate change is more vague, but more consequential.

«Climate change is the most consequential, urgent, sweeping collection of challenges we face» (Hillary Clinton)... «confronting climate change» is «a duty or responsibility laid down in scriptures» (John Kerry)... «Climate change is so much more consequential than ISIS ever was» (Leading Democrat consultant)... «we are not very far» from the point where climate change should be declared an international public health emergency» (UN's Christiana Figueres)...

This puts Donald Trump's commitment to withdraw from the treaty in a useful perspective; in fact, his spite may ultimately prove perversely productive, since the evacuation of American leadership on climate seems to have mobilized China, eager to claim the mantle and far more consequential to the future of the planet because of its size and relative poverty, to adopt a much more aggressive posture toward climate.

However, it would be even more consequential if the U.S. departure from the Paris agreement caused other countries to weaken their own commitments, or lower their ambitions.

Other and more consequential outcomes are possible and there are no grounds for complacency — but then the world is rapidly moving to restoration of soils and ecosystems and innovative 21st century energy sources and production technologies.

But these matters are far more consequential than my own employment.

But there's probably no more consequential and contentious a target for the incoming administration than an arcane metric called the «social cost of carbon.»

About the Abstract Expressionist movement and his fellow artists Motherwell said: «But really I suppose most of us felt that our passionate allegiance was not to American art or in that sense to any national art, but that there was such a thing as modern art: that it was essentially international in character, that it was the greatest painting adventure of our time, that we wished to participate in it, that we wished to plant it here, that it would blossom in its own way here as it had elsewhere, because beyond national differences there are human similarities that are more consequential...» (5)

More consequential than the flavor of cat milk, however, was a general impression that lasted.

I've longed for more games that favor small, detailed, and as result more consequential spaces over sprawling open worlds with little to interact with.

But once it's gone, much more consequential money decisions lie ahead.

It was his friendship with Granacci that would prove more consequential, for it was this amiable youth — the sort of good - natured, unambitious man the always competitive Michelangelo preferred to surround himself with — who introduced Michelangelo to the delights of drawing and painting and to the studio where he was to take his first steps toward becoming an artist himself.

For what it's worth a failed water pump alone will not result in immediate performance symptoms, so as @JPhi1618 is suggesting, the symptoms suggest a more consequential wound to the engine.

However, the more consequential changes are on the inside.

Teachers» EVAAS scores, in short, were being used to evaluate teachers in Houston in more consequential ways than anywhere else in the nation (e.g., the termination of 221 teachers in just one year as based, primarily, on their EVAAS scores).

Through the TLI, teachers will play more consequential roles in shaping the policies and practices that govern teaching and learning.

But as troubling as Hollywood's problem is, there is another, much more consequential profession with an even more striking lack of diversity: that of education leaders — in particular, state education commissioners and school district superintendents.

Race to the Top: President Obama's Race to the Top (RttT) initiative helped (and continues to help) to distribute billions of dollars in federal stimulus monies to states, thus far to a total of $ 4.35 billion, if states promise via their legislative policies that they will use students» large - scale standardized test scores for even more consequential purposes than NCLB required prior.

This makes the act feel more consequential and helps it to carry its own motivational weight.

Teachers will play more consequential roles in shaping the policies and practices that govern teaching and learning.

And while public charter schools challenge Democrats» unity, Republicans education factions may be more consequential.

While everyone in educatorland obsesses over the $ 4 billion competition among the states for Race to the Top (RTT) funding, the Education Department (ED) is readying a separate competition for less than one - tenth as much money that may nonetheless prove far more consequential for American education over the long term.

Positive impacts on long - term attainment outcomes and earnings are, of course, more consequential than outcomes on test scores in school.

District administrators may be quick to point out that due to longstanding vendor agreements, work rules, and bargaining arrangements, the net cost might be operationally more consequential than the per - pupil gains.

But at the end of the film, you opt out of a clean ending to make it more consequential for the characters.

It kept me guessing throughout the whole thing, not to mention multiple endings made your choices during the game feel much more consequential.

I would have preferred a story to «Free Fire» and much meatier characters so that their sass had more of a bite and their deaths were more consequential.

The problems that registered sex offenders face are far more consequential than for.

It looks from early evidence that intake of plant toxins may be much more consequential for health than the overall carbohydrate level.

Further from the spotlight is a lot of equally flawed research that is often more consequential.

However, he said the degree of difference in earnings suggested the horizontal stratification in education across field of study appears to be more consequential than the usual focus on vertical stratification, which refers to the earnings gap between levels of education.

A more consequential aspect, in retrospect, was that the CIHR award enabled me to do an unpaid editorial internship at SEED, a science and culture magazine based in Montreal.

What we are talking about, however, is much deeper and significantly more consequential.

That may be the price of Moderna's unicorn status: The higher the hopes are for a new treatment approach, the more consequential its warts and blunders become.