Sentences with phrase «relative importance»

The declining casualty rates highlight the growing relative importance of the conflict's economic costs due to, for example, property damage, reduced business productivity, and defense spending.

As we get closer to 2050 population growth becomes less of an issue and income growth and climate change grow in relative importance.

Rather, absent context, we have no way to gauge relative importance and intensity of preference.

It uses the same cluster map of larger and smaller bubbles showing connections among cases and relative importance of cases, all arranged along a timeline.

Proactive and highly organized with an exceptional ability to multi-task and demonstrated ability to prioritize tasks based on relative importance and urgency;

You should also be prepared for a range of questions: while some are polar (yes / no) questions, others use a scale to judge relative importance and require personal reflection of what you are really like.

Percentage of aged units receiving Social Security benefits, by relative importance of benefits to total income

However, the court underlined the evolution in European penal policy towards the increasing relative importance of the rehabilitative aim of imprisonment, particularly towards the end of a long prison sentence.

This court has questioned the validity of this assumption and suggested that the character of the employment is «a factor of declining relative importance»: Di Tomaso v. Crown Metal Packaging Canada LP, at paras. 27 - 28.

«The antithesis is solved by rating types of order in relative importance according to their success in magnifying the individual actualities, that is to say, in promoting strength of experience.»

The authors summarized that among all variables, the distance to transmission lines, distance to edge and amount of edge had the greatest relative importance to ravens in selecting nesting locations.

«Working out relative importance of each person's contribution to the research will still be a judgment call,» Stemwedel says.

«Counties in the South tend to place higher relative importance on frontage length,» Alex Villacorta, HouseCanary's EVP of Analytics, writes in the study's findings.

The data from the twin study will also provide estimates of relative importance of genetic and environmental influences on each hypothesized syndrome.

How will he respond to the competition he has awakened, particularly in smartphones, even as the personal computer fades in relative importance?

While some are polar (yes / no) questions, others use a scale to judge relative importance and require personal reflection of what you are really like.

Here's what Ryan Holmes, Hootsuite CEO, has to say about prioritizing tasks and managing expectations — «[Prioritizing what needs to be done] is round - robin, and by relative importance.»

Indeed, there is recent jurisprudence suggesting that, if anything, it is today a factor of declining relative importance: see Medis Health and Pharmaceutical Services Inc. v. Bramble (1999), 175 D.L.R. (4th) 385 (N.B.C.A.)(«Bramble») and Vibert v. Paulin (2008), 291 D.L.R. (4th) 302 (N.B.C.A.).

Dominance analyses demonstrated that certain personality traits — neuroticism, extraversion, agreeableness, and self - esteem — had a greater relative importance than attachment orientations for different PWB dimensions.

Today, however, a count of active New York producers shows fifty - eight non-Jewish producers and fifty - six Jewish and an estimate of their relative importance shows them pretty much in balance.

One of the effects of modern industrialism has been to increase the relative importance of the cities.

You'll need to determine the relative importance of growth potential, guarantees, or flexibility to help you pinpoint the strategy that is right for you in retirement.

«Have there been any academic studies on the relative importance of factors that drive the prohibition of economic «scientists» to discuss, measure, and explain the real role of rents and rentiers in the economy?

A weighting system is also used which further ensures that survey responses have an appropriate impact on the results according to the relative importance of the sector they operate in and the size of the company.

According to Yuen Pau Woo, CEO of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and Prof. Chen Bo from the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China's relative importance for Canadian exports was greater in value - added terms than if measured by gross value.

The chart below gives some sense of the relative importance of Italy - and to a slightly lesser degree Spain - in meeting its rollover demands this year versus the smaller euro area countries.

«Among the G - SIBs [Global Systemically Important Banks], Deutsche Bank appears to be the most important net contributor to systemic risks, followed by HSBC and Credit Suisse... The relative importance of Deutsche Bank underscores the importance of risk management, intense supervision of G - SIBs and the close monitoring of their cross-border exposures, as well as rapidly completing capacity to implement the new resolution regime.»

Doing so is likely to increase risk, shift the relative importance of luck and skill, and raise trading costs.

The second preference concerns the relative importance of equality as compared to efficiency.

A small but active presence of Hebrew - speaking Catholics in the State of Israel is growing in relative importance.

But then this stunning assertion: «For what it is worth, I believe that the «engines that drive history» are various, and their relative importance changes with time and circumstances.

A whole somewhat adjusts the relative importance the embraced many will have in the newly specified determination it brings into existence as it dies satisfied.

But coherence must be achieved by the whole (with its parts already in mutual relationships) adjusting the relative importance of the old diversities within the new possibility becoming realized, not by altering nor rejecting them since «an actual occasion has no history.

Misunderstanding (and overestimating) the relative importance of freedom vs. tyranny as an axis of conflict in Iraq was one of the reasons why the Bush administration was so surprised at the difficulty of the postwar occupation.

As many of the other functions of the church erode, the memory - preserving function may gain in relative importance.

The question, then, is how we are to weigh the relative importance of christology and anthropology.

Prescinding from the conventional debate over the relative importance of civil and political rights on the one hand, and economic and social rights on the other, we ought to be able to agree on those elementary rights that have priority over any political or economic program, regardless of that program's ideological label.

Making their approach from the functional point of view they tried to discover how ministers defined their more important objectives, how they rated the relative importance of their various tasks and how they divided their time in the performance of their duties.

I am in no position to enter into the historical debate as to the relative importance of the several sources of Gnosticism, but I must attempt to place it in reference to the schematism of this book.

The relative importance of the relation to the body and the relation to the past dominant occasions varies.

We need not enter here into the controversies that have arisen among Christian denominations regarding this precise number and their relative importance.

If two men disagree, for example, about the relative fruitfulness of their theories, or if they agree about that but disagree about the relative importance of fruitfulness and, say, scope in reaching a choice, neither can be convicted of a mistake.

There are six stages of willing, according to Assagioli; (1) the existence of a purpose to be achieved; (2) deliberation on the various goals and their relative importance; (3) making a decision on one important goal and setting aside the others; (4) confirmation of the choice by an affirmation of this goal by will; (5) development of a plan to achieve the goal; (6) directing the implementation of the plan.