Sentences with phrase «outsize impact»

On a panel I ran Tuesday night for the United Nations Foundation, Ronny Jumeau, the Seychelles ambassador to the United Nations, expressed quiet exasperation on behalf of small island nations that expect to feel outsize impacts from rising seas.

«Tiny particles have outsize impact on storm clouds, precipitation: Amazon rainforest provides a unique natural lab to study effects of aerosols.»

In each case, they used the opportunity to build something from the ground up and make an outsize impact.

Yet it happens to be the real - life story of Steve Jobs and his outsize impact on everything he touches.

Disruptions in Venezuela's oil industry can have outsize impact on the country, as oil brings in about 95 % of its export revenue, which has been used to purchase imports like food and medicine as domestic production dries up.

But the timing of the snowfall — on the eve of the World Economic Forum's annual conference — has had an outsize impact.

But science actually shows that circumstances and surroundings (even quite trivial details of our surroundings) can have an outsize impact on the choices we make.

Still, the numbers are a nice reminder that simple changes to your daily routine or even the location of your work can have outsize impact on your happiness level.

Small tweaks to your environment and habits can have outsize impacts on your productivity.

The outsize impact of all this stuff on the global economy and businesses is extraordinary.

If it goes high higher, it will have an outsize impact, and riots and other forms of civil unrest could occur.»

Since it's only one game and managers can have an outsize impact on the outcome, finals will sometimes grind to a halt, but with Allegri vs. Zinedine Zidane, it's one manager who openly says he doesn't care about tactics vs. one whose tactics let his team get out and run.

Though only a small percentage of the population bothers to actually watch Prime Minister's Questions, this style of coverage ensures that party leaders» handling of the ritualistic weekly exchanges has an outsize impact on public perception.

Cuomo's campaign has blamed the low turnout for his relatively poor showing relative to his little - known opponent, arguing that the «most passionate groups» — namely anti-fracking protesters and disgruntled public employees — had an outsize impact.

This is important step in showing our appreciation to these veterans for their outsize impact they have had on their country, their fellow soldiers and their families.

For starters, higher tolls will have an outsize impact on daily commuters.

One high - profile target, he says, should be reducing emissions of tiny soot particles, known as black carbon, that don't last long in the atmosphere but have an outsize impact on warming.

But it has an outsize impact because its mission is «entirely to train people» to do research mostly in low - income countries, says bioethicist Nancy Kass of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, a Fogarty grantee.

And it's one that could have an outsize impact on our very way of life, leading to energy from water splitting and biomass from energy conversion.

Those policies could have an outsize impact on public health.

HIIT training techniques, like Tabata, appear to have an outsize impact on fat loss.

In his NYT piece, for example, Malkus asserts that allowing parents to use their tax - advantaged accounts for K - 12 expenses in addition to college tuition will have «outsize impacts on the state income tax bases.»

The foundation is the largest education funder in the U.S., and in that role it has the potential to have an outsize impact on school reforms.

A growing body of research establishes that community schools can have an outsize impact.

«This new analysis points to an outsize impact on community services in cases where the physical space is not able to keep pace with modern technology needs,» said John Bertot, survey lead researcher and professor and co-director of the Information Policy and Access Center at the University of Maryland.

Humans are the other rain forest inhabitants that can do so, and the similarities don't stop there: we're also these hypersocialized creatures that have outsize impacts on the geographies around us.

It should be noted that when looking at the above numbers, the relatively small sample sizes for HighSchool / GED and «Associates Degree» make it easy for a small number of outlier points to have an outsize impact on the average and median results.

Lain Shakespeare, Corporate Citizenship Director at MailChimp, says: «Arts organizations make an outsize impact on Atlanta's culture and economy.

, says: «Arts organizations make an outsize impact on Atlanta's culture and economy.

He also talks about the outsize impact on poorer residents with Nicole Hernandez Hammer, the Southeast Advocacy Coordinator for Climate & Energy at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Much of the recent heat over biofuels has been focused on how much this booming business may have contributed to the international spike in food prices that has had an outsize impact on poor people.

It's been clear for many years that the stresses that come with extreme climate conditions have an outsize impact on poor communities, and nowhere more so than in sub-Saharan Africa.

«Big Law is notorious for its hidebound habits, but over the last 50 years a few dozen men and women have had an outsize impact on the profession.

The best smart thermostat will have an outsize impact not only how comfortable you are in your home, but also on your household budget.

Though new homes represent less than 20 percent of the housing sales market, they have an outsize impact on the economy.