Sentences with phrase «of a few degrees as»

The one thing that stands out for me in the Hansen projections is the [snip] claim that current temperatures are in the same range of a few degrees as the altithermal and Eemian periods.

Not exact matches

Aside from the few who among us who had master's degrees in business administration, most of my classmates brought to the table the skills and experience specific to theor venture, such as backgrounds in fashion, architecture, medicine, food service and so forth.

Lloyd Blankfein's path tothe pinnacle of finance nearly rivals for degree of difficulty that of his legendary predecessor Sidney Weinberg, who was one of eleven children of a Brooklyn bootlegger and started working at Goldman Sachs as a gofer shining spittoons, in 1907, a few years removed from elementary school.

It's a small, but fast - growing, niche that's making inroads in a number of ways — such as providing an alternative to overseas outsourcing while offering jobs in domestic areas that often have few employment options, particularly for skilled workers or those with college degrees.

OGE had the misfortune of launching a few months before the market meltdown, of course, and its NAV didn't crater to the same degree as its market value.

Fortunately, the solution for an open plan environment is almost as simple: 1) check to see if a majority of the women in the workplace feel it's too cold and 2) if so, raise the thermostat a few degrees.

For turnover in FX derivatives, several things stand out (Graph 4): (i) activity has generally risen over the past decade even when scaled by a measure of cross-border transactions; (ii) developed Asian markets stand out as having a high degree of turnover; (iii) there was a particularly strong increase in turnover in these markets between 2013 and 2016; and (iv) FX derivatives turnover in emerging Asian economies has also increased significantly in the past few years, but remains a small part of the global market.

Anyone who doubts this need only consider the rhetoric used to attack the University of Alberta's plan to award an honorary degree to renowned biologist and environmentalist David Suzuki, whose views on oilsands extraction have literally been characterized on social media as treasonous and terroristic in the past few days.

While a few months ago it appeared as if there was a high degree of co-operation among the Financial Stability Board countries, we are now experiencing a divide with different countries trying to initiate rules that best suit their jurisdiction.

And few other companies that are serving on these boards have faced the same degree of vitriol as Uber and Kalanick.

In terms of a secret agenda for collectivist authoritarianism, I admit a few liberal elites are that depraved — I was myself shocked by the degree to which the leaders of the Democratic Socialists of America, the ones who helped train our current President and whose leader (Michael Harrington) I myself read and admired in the 80s, were open to deception and smear - tactics, as revealed by Stanely Kurtz's Radical in Chief.

Couples with a reasonable degree of ego strength can often acquire the ability to help themselves within as few as six to ten sessions.

Every student who graduates constitutes a triumph; so few Ecuadorians complete college - level education that the title Licenciado («One with a college degree») is still used in front of people's names with as much solemnity as others might use «Doctor.»

Out of a vast body of oral or written material, through long testing, a certain few selections are made, generally not by an official body so much as by the decision of the community itself as evidenced by degree of use or disuse, and these become the sacred canon.

In this regard Hausman found himself in good company: Mead, Whitehead, Russell (if that is good company), Santayana and Henry Nelson Wieman to name only a few, also saw Bergson as having sold out, to some degree, the conceptual, structural and / or rational element of thought for a more immediate and fluid grasp of pure becoming.4

What is offered, as far as philosophy is concerned, is a few rather arbitrarily selected reflections such as a theologian must undertake if he is in some degree to deal with his own set of problems.

In physico - chemical terms a very high degree of complexity begets consciousness: few laws of Nature are so sure, so consistent (or so little exploited) as this.

A legal system is generalized, Parsons says, to the degree it is «an integrated system of universalistic norms, applicable to the society as a whole rather than to a few functional or segmental sectors, highly generalized in terms of principles and standards, and relatively independent of both the religious agencies that legitimize the normative order of the society and vested interest groups in the operative sector, particularly in government.

Whether beating up a woman is worse than cheating on taxes or drunk driving is an odd line of thinking to comment on as the degree of all three could vary materially but if we are talking about cheating a few thousand dollars on your taxes vs beating up a woman then to me that is laughable.

Some of them have college degrees and experience working as therapists or teachers, but others have few qualifications.

A few potted things the boycott and campaign has achieved: The International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes (despite what Nestlé told the bloggers, it opposed the Code - scans of documents from the time are on our site), the Code's implementation in 70 countries to greater or lesser degrees, breastfeeding rates in countries taking action to stop malpractice increasing (Brazil from median duration 3 months in the 1980s to 10 months today), Nestlé changing its policy on milk nurses and baby pictures on formula, stopping specific cases of malpractice such as Nestlé promoting formula in Botswana as preventing diarrhoea etc. etc..

There are various degrees of this, as we see in insecure attachment research, and definitely few insecurely attached children grow up to choose violence that makes the news.

It also lets you keep track of your body temperature — because your temperature tends to rise a few degrees when you are ovulating — as well as moods, OPK results, spotting and pain levels so you can talk to your doctor about it at your next visit.

Few people outside of the trans community paid much attention to the report — perhaps unsurprisingly, as despite the committee's vague estimate that there are 650,000 people in the UK who are «gender incongruent to some degree», this is still very much a niche issue affecting a minority of the population.

Critical factors such as a minimum of 4 BTEch Degree Programmes in Science and Technology based disciplines, academic and professional qualification of teaching staff, stock of equipment, strategic partnership with industry and a well crafted legal regime just to highlight a few are all crucial elements that infrastructural provision alone can not satisfy.

Although as at press time, no life was lost, scores sustained high degree of injuries and no fewer than five vehicles nearby were reportedly burnt from the incident.

It has been suggested that he will say two - year degrees could transform university for thousands of undergraduates, and allow students to pay fewer tuition fees, as well as leaving graduates with less debt.

I should declare up front that I am a proud possessor of a few science degrees, and as a priority candidates list member from its inception, I undeniably have a vested interest in highlighting the absence of scientists on the Opposition benches and amongst our group of selected candidates!

As they are opaque to visible light it is difficult for astronomers to observe their inner workings, and so other tools are needed to unveil their secrets — observations in the infrared or in the submillimetre parts of the spectrum, for example, where the dust clouds, only a few degrees over absolute zero, appear bright.

But Jones is not sure if Manley did as well at capturing slower changes, of a few tenths of a degree over decades, which is important for detecting the onset of warming due to the burning of fossil fuels.

Using only a few lines of algebra, Bell proved that no local hidden variables theory could ever reproduce the same degree of correlations as one varied the angles between detectors.

As with the undergraduate programs, master's and doctorate degree programs in geodesy are few and far between: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the University of Colorado, Boulder; and the University of Texas, Austin, all offer M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in geodesy.

As Stephen C. Riser and M. Susan Lozier note in their February 2013 Scientific American article, «Rethinking the Gulf Stream,» «A comparison of the Argo data with ocean observations from the 1980s, carried out by Dean Roemmich and John Gilson of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, shows that the upper few hundred meters of the oceans have warmed by about 0.2 degree C in the past 20 years.

I asked this question because as editor of MiSciNet I was directly involved in an effort to address why so few minorities pursue graduate degrees in science.

Trumpet and flute players have been known to freeze their instruments in -300 degree Fahrenheit «refrigerators» for a few days, describing the sound that comes out of the thawed instrument as «more mellow.»

Jolted by the 40 - million mile per hour sledgehammer blow, one knot of gas — 100 billion miles in diameter in a piece of the ring — has already begun to glow brightly, as its temperature surges from a few thousand degrees to a million degrees Fahrenheit.

Site J was chosen unanimously as the primary landing site because the majority of terrain within an area that size has slopes of less than 30 degrees relative to the local vertical and because there are relatively few large boulders.

It appears the earth's climate is unstable when it cools a few degrees, as that starts the formation of the massive ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere.

If this holds up over the next few years of larger trials it should become very clear as to the degree to which amyloid - β is or is not in fact the primary cause of pathology in Alzheimer's disease.

The higher level of focus on genetic material from the few small fragments from the Central Asian cave shows the people Paabo calls Denisovans — clearly different genetically from Neanderthals but closely related to them and also to our own species — probably to have formed a larger population than the Neanderthals themselves, as they show a higher degree of variation in their genetic makeup.

There is evidence in satellite and radiosonde data and in observational data for poleward expansion of the tropical circulation by as much as a few degrees of latitude since the 1970s [34]--[35], but natural variability may have contributed to that expansion [36].

People experience varying degrees of success as their body begins to flush itself of toxins — but the first few days are hardest.

However, I have found that to obtain the degree of definition and associated low level of body - fat required for stage, nothing works as well as a low fat diet and a few good servings of cardio exercise!

I only wore this for the first half of the day, as it went from 35 degrees to 70 within a few hours today.

While I don't have a lot of the classic pattern lining my wardrobe, I do have a few pieces for my home that I really look forward to digging out as soon as the temperature starts dropping below 50 - degrees in the evenings.

In my experience Madewell has a few different jean mixes — one is 90 % cotton, another is about 70 % and one is somewhere between, and as a result they all have various degrees of stretch.

By the first day of summer, we sometimes are already breaking the 100 degree mark, so we try to cram as much outdoor fun into the few months of Spring.

When the temperatures start climbing upwards of 80 degrees (as they did this weekend), I always reach for easy, simple pieces that I can add a few interesting details to.

NYC has been averaging about 95 - 100 degrees for our stay, so you can say it's been a sweaty few days we've been drinking a lot of iced coff, eating a lot of ice pops and trying to find AC as much as we can... with some thrifting in between!

Another 10 % stated that their belief as «some other viewpoint» (i.e. some other viewpoint than the varying degrees of conservative and liberal viewpoints that are given as options) and a few others chose «no answer».