Sentences with phrase «not insignificant changes»

Not exact matches

Federal and provincial finance ministers considered the Report in their triennial review of CPP finances in May, 2009, endorsed its main conclusion regarding the satisfactory state of the Plan's finances, and announced some changes to the plan that will likely have minor financial implications, but are not insignificant.

A couple of research papers indicated only a decrease in abortion rates that is statistically insignificant (i.e. it could have been due to chance rather than the change in the law), but these have tended to analyse data on abortion rates for all ages, not specifically teenage abortion rates.

Whereas the Jansenism of old despaired that anyone could really be loved by God, be good enough to receive Holy Communion, or be saved, its newer version has so little faith in the power of God to change hearts that it presumes God does not care for something so insignificant as the human heart.

And yet not even the foremost professional theatrical producer has ever had all in such readiness for the stage and for the change of scenes, as eternity has all in readiness for time: all — even to the least detail, even to the most insignificant word that is spoken; has all in readiness in each instant — although eternity delays.

Get an Economics text and read up on supply and demand... you will see that Arsenal is not a top three team in England, and at the same time, the game has changed to make our team even more insignificant.

But that shouldn't mean that the idea of the small and seemingly insignificant rule changes should be forgotten.

Our NPP is just not visible, the feel of change is insignificant and intangible.

«Usually we'd say this was an insignificant climate change, but on St. Paul, it turned out not to be,» Graham says.

While a 14 % loss is not an insignificant amount, it's smaller than some of the changes in Antarctic sea ice recorded during the middle of the 20th century, as estimated from whaling ship logbooks, the paper says.

Besides causing increased fecal excretion of bile acids, dietary fiber may cause malabsorption of fat.39 However, in our study, the patients» weight did not change with the high - fiber diet, which suggests that the degree of reduction in the absorption of fat was insignificant.

Another not insignificant advantage to using the ROI model on a regular basis is the fact that it changes the attitude both managers of other branches and the top company management have towards training.

For example, there's an insignificant bump in horror popularity during Halloween while romance popularity does not change at all during Valentine's season.

«When rates go up, there is a ripple effect that will likely lead to an interest rate increase on variable rate products,» said Bruce McClary in an interview, a spokesman for the National Foundation for Credit Counseling based in Washington, D.C. «In most cases, it is not a very large change, but even the most insignificant increases can have a major impact on budgets that are very tight.»

I guess maybe the writers were aware that most of the changes don't occur until well into the game, so they wanted to assure the player that they were in fact playing a different game by changing random, insignificant things early in the game.

I am not very impressed by statistics and studies by scientists who are backing the science that mankind is responsible for climate change, though admittedly I probably have read an insignificant fraction compared with what all of you have read.

A cousin of mine who is a Physicist and worked in solid state manufacturing, is a total climate change denier, he reasons that Carbon dioxide has insignificant interaction with infrared radiation (as compared with H2O), therefore the increased levels of Carbon dioxide can not be influencing climate.

1) Denial — man is so insignificant he can not change a climate.

The biggest problem with «writing off solar effects on climate as insignificant», at the same time attributing most of the recent changes to AGW, is that it does not appear to stand up over the longer term.

that CO2 plays a very small to insignificant role in climate change (when we consider observational facts and physical laws instead of models that do not even agree with measured facts).

As time and the solar / climactic cycles march on, natural changes ahead might end up putting a - not insignificant dent - in the harvested energy (measured in kwh / yr) of a larger 20MW PV system over a quarter century.

Since CO2 is increasing at 2ppmv / year but there has not been any detectable change in OLR resulting from this increase; it is safe to say that CO2 increases have not have any more than a trivial insignificant effect on the Earth's energy balance.

-- Muller believes humans are changing climate with CO2 emissions — humans have been responsible for «most» of a 0.4 C warming since 1957, almost none of the warming before then — IPCC is in trouble due to sloppy science, exaggerated predictions; chairman will have to resign — the «Climategate» mails were not «hacked» — they were «leaked» by an insider — due to «hide the decline» deception, Muller will not read any future papers by Michael Mann — there has been no increase in hurricanes or tornadoes due to global warming — automobiles are insignificant in overall picture — China is the major CO2 producer, considerably more than USA today — # 1 priority for China is growth of economy — global warming is not considered important — China CO2 efficiency (GDP per ton CO2) is around one - fourth of USA today, has much room for improvement — China growth will make per capita CO2 emissions at same level as USA today by year 2040 — if it is «not profitable» it is «not sustainable» — US energy future depends on shale gas for automobiles; hydrogen will not be a factor — nor will electric cars, due to high cost — Muller is upbeat on nuclear (this was recorded pre-Fukushima)-- there has been no warming in the USA — Muller was not convinced of Hansen's GISS temperature record; hopes BEST will provide a better record.

Since the sea levels have been rising at about the speed they are rising now for some time, I mean this: if sea level rises are so insignificant that we continue to respond to them in about the same way we do now, who gives a flip except hysterics or deluded people who think the climate did not change prior to the CO2 obsession..

It seems to me that it's much easier to show the opposite conclusion, namely that condensation doesn't cause any change in pressure, and at most an insignificant change in volume if any.

Diverting attention from the elephant in the room, that AGW is hugely exagerated, probably insignificant, and can not change much in several lifetimes, and does not justify any of the very profitable and expensive measures enacted in its name, which make its single and deadly natural supposed cause worse by laws that are regressive inscience fact on each of their own justifications.

Not surprisingly the countries of the global South are the main victims of climate change even though their contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions is relatively insignificant.

What's not insignificant is the change in insolation between perihelion and aphelion where one loses almost precisely what the other gains.

You set up false dilemmas (fight denialists OR effect change) to make it look like we can't do more than one thing at a time, then apply spin and misrepresentations («[denialists] are of a very insignificant nature» (note who's listening to them) «more effort is being expended now on a few denalists than warranted» (note: unsubstantiated assertion), «Is the question about a few snakes biting a few people or doing far more» (shorter: «a few snake bites are OK!»)-RRB-

When put in 2012 prices, the loss is calculated as $ 3.5 trillion, and the spreadsheet is available on the Web for those who would like to check the calculations themselves.f If, indeed, the climate skeptics think this is an insignificant number, they should not object to spending much smaller sums for slowing climate change starting now.

We want to convince people that either don't know about it, haven't thought about it, or aren't convinced they can make a difference, that you can take a lot of these changes, and although it may seem insignificant at the individual level, they will add up, and we'll see significant change from it.

And not small insignificant decisions, but decisions that change the course of the law firm in a profound manner.

If the difference in the gloves» classification could cause serious financial harm to Igloo Vikski, not just an insignificant change in profit margin, then humour is inappropriate.

Further, the change must be substantial, continuing in nature and can not be trivial or insignificant: T. (T.L.A.) v. T. (W.W.)(1996), 26 B.C.L.R. (3rd) 319 at 333 (C.A.); Hickey v. Hickey, [1999] 2 S.C.R. 518 at para. 20 (S.C.C.); Marinangeli v. Marinangeli (2003), 66 O.R. (3d) 40 at para. 49 (Ont.

The volume and velocity of corporate governance changes over the last few years has not been insignificant, to put it mildly, and that trend is expected to continue well into 2014 and 2015.

Whether or not there will be changes in future when the phone arrives in other markets is still unknown, but in case of any, they should be quite insignificant.

Of course, don't expect the design and weight of the Moto Z and Moto Z Force to remain the same once you've added a Mod, however, the changes are insignificant.

«That's where most of the change is likely to occur, which is why I don't think this is an insignificant piece of legislation, because it really does set a backdrop for a lot of future action that could be taken,» Killmer says.