Sentences with phrase «much less influence»

Why would it not be fair for people to comment and give a piece of their minds which will have much less influence when you think of it?

As such, the genome holds much less influence about longevity than expected and our results help to explain why [genome studies] of longevity have failed to find a reliable signal so far,» noted Erlich.

For Qoheleth, God seems remote and uncommunicative, and we can not hope to understand, much less influence, God's activity in the world (3:11; 8:16 — 17).

Baghdad has much less influence, so if Turkey declines to follow through on its threats, the independence vote could give the Kurdish government some leverage with Baghdad in negotiations over revenue sharing, a longstanding grievance that has not been addressed.

OPEC has much less influence on it.

Annuity pricing is much less influenced by interest rates than most people think.

«The judicial branch is much less influenced by special interests such as the fossil fuel industry,» Hansen told The Atlantic in 2012.

Not exact matches

I think the Israelite's did not think much more or less of «their» God then the surrounding nations did, they where all under some kind of influence from one and the other.

We can even see problem solving intelligence in slime mold, and our own brains work very much like the hive intelligence found in bees and ants... no sign of any «divine» influence but fascinating none the less.

The fact is, the Bible has been proven to be a historically - inaccurate account of «history» that is laced with fairy tales — an interesting novel but nothing credible enough to base one's life on much less push to influence society as a whole.

The way in which the reflexive verb is presented in the French suggests a tighter, internal immediacy than what we may be tempted to read into the English... «s» influencent» sounds much less like an actual multiplicity than does the phrase «influence each other.

Apart from the influence of Buddhism, Western process thinkers have hardly asked these questions, much less answered them.

Finally, one attempts by his self - actualization to influence future occasions in other persons, with some, although much less, success.

Kim, You may show up here so you can educate / ridicule those of us with a much less rigid conservative viewpoint, but by just condemning people and their ideas in that way, you lose any authority or influence to teach.

The British influence accounts for the fact that the principal language of Singapore is English (other official languages are Tamil, Malay, and Cantonese), but the British had a much lesser impact on the food.

Most students have never been in a formal interview setting, much less with someone who will be reading their application and potentially influencing their admission to that college.

When it comes to the impact of a father's love versus that of a mother, results from more than 500 studies suggest that while children and adults often experience more or less the same level of acceptance or rejection from each parent, the influence of one parent's rejection — oftentimes the father's — can be much greater than the other's.

It's so true that television and movies, and to a lesser extent music, influence names, certainly much more than any other trend.

They can manipulate the average citizen just as well as they can manipulate politicians, in fact even more, because the average citizen is much less educated, and as such, is more subject to external influence.

They are also less likely to feel as though they can influence political affairs — something which, incidentally, is much more widespread among party members than among the general public.

Less eye - catching to the media is the social liberal approach, which tends to influence party policy much more.

The results showed people who had written about why they disagreed with statements were much less likely to be influenced by their preliminary preferences in the choice process.

Researchers found that male offspring in particular responded much less to the drug's influence

Current computer models, however, do not simplify reality as much as those used a few years ago, and they are less heavily influenced by the underlying assumptions, says Stadler.

That bias can influence the sort of secondary work Gould did is a different and a much less surprising claim than unconscious bias influencing actual measurements.

What we found, however, was that while the majority of customers noticed the labels, a very small percentage reported using them to influence their purchasing decisions and customers with lower income and lower education levels reported using menu labels to a much lesser extent.»

While researchers know that adolescent drinking is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors, much less is known about interactions between the two.

«Human influence is so dominant now,» Baker asserts, «that whatever is going to go on in the tropics has much less to do with sea surface temperatures and the earth's orbital parameters and much more to do with deforestation, increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide and global warming.»

Investigators have found that H. azteca collected from sites influenced by agricultural / urban runoff are as much as 2 - times less sensitive to pyrethroid insecticides than lab - grown H. azteca.

Hanna and Cardillo also found that rats» impact was most pronounced on small mammals — those weighing less than 2.7 kilograms — although the scientists are unsure how much of this influence was due to direct predation as opposed to competition for food and other resources or disease spread.

Compared to the past decades, the pattern (more emissions in South Asia) and the relative forcings are completely different, with much less relative influence of aerosols than today (due to faster increasing CO2 levels).

A less active sun would probably have a small cooling effect on earth's temperature, if man - made greenhouse gases weren't having a much bigger warming influence.

World champs are sparring much less, and spending more time in float tanks thanks in big part to the influence of the forward - thinking podcast king, MMA event host and standup comedian extraordinaire, Joe Rogan.

Block heel boots, wedge heel boots, platform boots, and the classic heeled knee - high boots — they're all reliably present from one season to the next and are much less trend - influenced than flat shoes or stiletto pump shapes.

Both of these things have a heavy influence on Star Trek Beyond, and both tie in to the way that the film takes a more grounded, less spectacle - driven approach that feels different from what Abrams had done with the series, while still very much within the same spirit.

The comment was somewhat facetious, but it underlined a curious fact: not only are most film - lovers unaware of Freed's huge influence on Band Wagon, Silk Stockings, Singin «in the Rain, and the 40 - odd other films produced by his unit, but the very roles of producer and production unit have been little studied by film historians, much less commented on by theorists and critics.

Also shown was a much less finished sequence showing the results of Alex and co trying to reinvent the stodgy circus (that has been bought by the penguins and chimps with their casino gambling winnings, which sadly also represent penguin Private's college fund) and putting on an elaborate, Cirque Du Soleil influenced new show.

The starting point is to recognize that the inherent character traits said to make good leaders are «much less amenable to influence by education, training, and practice than are knowledge and skill.»

That's barely enough time to cover reading, writing, and arithmetic well, much less to offset the harmful influences that may be at work on children during the other 86 percent of their lives.

For our analysis of the relationship between district improvement efforts and state influences (see also section 3.3), we focused mainly on the small - to medium - sized districts, given that more than 90 % of school districts in the United States serve less than 25,000 students, and given our impression that much research on the district role in educational reform is concentrated on the experiences of large, urban districts.

Because a teacher can not influence how much the student knew at the beginning of the year, comparing end - of - year performance will work against teachers whose children began the year with less knowledge or skill.

What's less certain is how much influence the concept will have on the new Sportage.

The MCTWI should fluctuate much less than the actual stock market and is especially resistant to the irrational exuberance or despair that occasionally influences the market.

He owns many more stocks than I do — and is far less interested in the underlying nature of the business; I don't seem to have very much influence on him.

Warren Buffett had this to say about Walters Schloss: «He knows how to identify securities that sell at considerably less than their value to a private owner; And that's all he does... He owns many more stocks than I do and is far less interested in the underlying nature of the business; I don't seem to have very much influence on Walter.

Sure CEOs management practices influence business outcomes, but much less than you argue.

Personality is greatly influenced by their early socialization with people, and much less by their breed or size.

The best part, for many, is that the influence of foreign tourists is much less here, so you will get much more of a feeling of the authentic «real» Costa Rica here, as it was dozens of years ago before so many people moved to the area from the U.S., Canada, and Europe.

After viewing the «Colin Goldberg: Techspressionism» exhibition at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller in East Hampton, I was reminded of how much less attention has been paid to the influence of Japanese sensibilities on the evolution of surrealism, abstract expressionism and other non-objective approaches in the west since the early years of the 20th century.

From the perspective of the UK, it has often seemed that the much contested field (and term) of Latin American art has been far less evident as a self - sustaining category than in other countries where histories of intervention and the consequent demographic influences have demanded it.