Sentences with phrase «only marginal»

We like to remind borrowers that when rates are this incredibly low in the first place, rolling a rate down from 4.375 % to 4.25 % will have only a marginal effect on one's payment in any case.

«The shifting of some markets off the IMI in June underscores the fragile nature of the housing recovery as well as the fact that many locations that previously made the list had recorded only marginal house price gains, which were easily wiped out by small downward changes,» notes NAHB Chief Economist David Crowe.

In this week's economic review, mortgage rates increased and consumer sentiment remained strong while consumer prices and sales saw only marginal gains this spring.

Despite only marginal increases in sales, consumer sentiment remains positive.

They will pay only a marginal commission and in exchange they will pester you night and day, demanding more advertising and open houses.

Last year, regional and super regional centres achieved only marginal increases while smaller neighbourhood centres have continued to deliver solid performances with vacancies dropping from 9 % during 2016 to 5.2 % by the end of the first quarter of 2017.

Few studies have assessed the association between childhood abuse and smoking among adults34 - 36 or adolescents.37 - 39 Some studies have found associations of childhood abuse with substance and alcohol abuse but only marginal associations with cigarette smoking.37, 38 We found that the relationship between the number of categories of adverse childhood experiences and each of the smoking behaviors is strong and cumulative.

In the mental subscales, except for vitality (d = 0.52 versus d = 0.33), matching led to only marginal changes.

Some argue that the key to increasing marriage in low income communities is to provide job training to increase the wages and employment of fathers.One problem with this approach is that government job training programs generally have a very limited impact on employment and earnings.More importantly, data from the Fragile Families survey show that increasing fathers» employment and earnings will have only a marginal effect in increasing marriage.

Certainly, cryptocurrency investors felt a sharp pain in their chests as the price dropped, later receiving only marginal relief when bitcoin rose back up and temporarily made its home at around $ 230.

This sounds trivial, but this absence of chiseling and slimming (that sometimes seems like only a marginal improvement on flagship devices) makes the Z1's 5.5 - inch screen feel unwieldy by comparison.

You have Snapdragon 810 phones that have heating issues, Snapdragon 808 phones which are only a marginal improvement over last year's 32 bit processors, and you have Samsung.

Previously we've heard that Apple plans to launch an advanced iPhone 8 alongside two iPhone 7s models that feature only marginal upgrades.

While a display may broaden Echo's features, it may be only a marginal improvement over Echo's existing interface.

Although those are only marginal upgrades, the Z1 was already a smashing piece of kit, and it might be slightly too soon for a full overhaul, given that it was only released in September last year.

Plasma is considered to be only a marginal scalability improvement, even though users will just need to download plasma chains that they care about.

However, ICICI Lombard and Bajaj Allianz saw only marginal rise of 4.2 % and 5.8 % rise in their premium incomes at Rs 517.18 crore and Rs 335.52 crore respectively.

The only marginal benefit to using the tool is to show someone the impact factors have on the relative cost of the policy.

The premium for these plans is generally higher than that for say 10, 15 or 18 years.The premium stays stable throughout the policy period and may have only marginal increases, if at all.

The majority decision written by Justice Marshall Rothstein, found that only marginal gains in efficiency are not sufficient grounds under the Competition Act to block an anti-competitive merger.

It has come to dominate modem thought about law, especially in the United States... Professor Griffiths... concludes that the instrumental effects of law are probably of only marginal importance and interest.

Canadian VC funding saw a big leap for tech and cleantech funding, but only a marginal increase for biotech.

A tribunal has a discretion, in accordance with the overriding objective, to exclude relevant evidence which is unnecessarily repetitive or of only marginal relevance in the interests of proper, modern day case management.

However, it is noteworthy that the differences are only marginal.

There are specific exceptions that disallow the introduction of relevant evidence, the most general of which is that it would be unduly prejudicial to admit the evidence which is otherwise of only marginal relevance, but in practice, I think that the DNA evidence would pass this test.

If you're an attorney who has been paying only marginal attention to the online security of your confidential client communications, perhaps this month's ruling from the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility will persuade you to take a closer look.

Today's opinion was written by Justice Antonin Scalia, who reasoned that the Jackson rule provided only marginal policy benefits while posing «substantial costs to the truth - seeking process and the criminal justice system.»

Across the Arctic, there has been only a marginal decline in total sea ice extent (Fig. 6) between March and June, the critical spring feeding period when polar bears require the ice as a hunting platform for gorging on young, fat seals.

25 November — Approval of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline would have only a marginal positive impact on the economics of the Canadian oil - sands industry, but could nevertheless trigger a rush of high - risk investment into additional projects that would rely heavily on rising oil prices, according to new research from the Carbon Tracker Initiative.

Everyone knows that politically driven policies are costing taxpayers billions while providing only marginal carbon reductions — but we need leaders who will do something about it!

If the oil sands were allowed to expand production with only marginal improvements in their per - barrel emissions, the rest of the country faces a much harder and more expensive challenge in meeting Canadian targets.

One of CSPW's major criticisms of the QER under President Obama was its treatment of natural gas as a «bridge fuel» to a renewable energy future; since the infrastructure used to extract, process, and transport natural gas to market is essentially the same as that for oil and petroleum products, continued reliance on natural gas only delays the transition to clean, renewable energy and has only marginal CO2 - reduction benefits in the near term.

Under the Pearl Harbour assumption, insulated buckets had either been disregarded (because of the assumption that a changeover to engine inlets had been complete at Pearl Harbour) or were held to be of only marginal significance and thus not included in the calculations (the apparent position of Rayner et al 2006).

Thus it is hardly surprising that the upward trend in U.S. hurricane damage is of only marginal statistical significance, and Pielke's own analysis shows that it takes several decades for such a trend to emerge.

The few sites that remain would provide only marginal power benefits, often at great environmental cost.

«Natural» means that we do not have within a defi ned con fidence interval a defi nitely positive anthropogenic contribution and, therefore, only a marginal anthropogenic contribution can not be excluded.

And the striking thing is that cross-spectrum analysis with the (properly recentered) HADCRUT3 series shows virtually no coherence at mutidecadal periods and only marginal coherence at the Nino spectral peak.

Approval of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline would have only a marginal positive impact on the economics of the Canadian oil - sands industry, but could nevertheless trigger a rush of high - risk investment into additional projects that would rely heavily on rising oil prices, according to new research from the Carbon Tracker Initiative.

It does not «prove» that today's climate is warmer than ever before; nor are the findings of only marginal confidence given prominence.

Record warmth at a time of only marginal El Niño conditions confirms that there is no «hiatus» of global warming, only a moderate slowdown since 2000....

Doing too little may expose Australia to ongoing changes elsewhere, yet this strategic repositioning to the rest of the world gains only marginal interest in the public and political debate.

Both consoles are up - converting, and they both look equally fantastic with only marginal visual differences.

If the difference were only marginal then it wouldn't be so obvious, there is a huge difference between the two, to deny that is simply crazy talk.

Similarly, the increases in Category 5 and 6 hotels (2K - 3K per night) is only a marginal increase.

At most, though, this «could have provided only a marginal boost.»

Often vets that use these gases rely heavily on the injectable induction agent and may use only marginal amounts of gas.

Housing analysts have previously predicted only marginal changes for mortgage rates over the next 12 months or so.

Deduction saves you only the marginal rate, while credit is dollar for dollar.

The only marginal benefit to using the tool is to show someone the impact factors have on the relative cost of the policy.

When it is near maturity, only the marginal ideas get done.