Sentences with phrase «relatively stable environments»

Instead of the relatively stable environment that was expected at the brink of interstellar space, the Voyagers have encountered what some scientists have described as a «magnetic jacuzzi,» a region where the sun's magnetic field appears to be ripping apart and reconnecting, forming bubbles millions of miles across.

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So, it's a relatively stable kind of environment.

«Even though extant research has identified numerous predictors of people's happiness and well being, most of these factors represent relatively stable aspects of an individual's life, such as the cultural environment in which one is raised or resides and demographics such as age, education, social class, marital status, and religion,» write the researchers.

These assumptions assume a relatively stable currency environment, so 2016's earnings unrelated to the acquisition of Misfit would not benefit from the significant non-operating currency gains that 2015's earnings did.

A country with stable finances and a relatively strong economy is likely to provide a more reliable investing environment than a country with weaker finances or an unsound economy.

Within the financials sector, we have found a greater number of potentially attractive opportunities in the region's insurance industry, which we regard as being in relatively better financial shape and operating in a more stable regulatory environment than banks.

In this environment the Australian dollar has appreciated strongly against the US dollar and against currencies of the non-Japan Asian region over the past year, though it has been relatively stable against other major floating currencies.

The answer, in my judgment, lies in looking more carefully at Whitehead's relatively sparse remarks about societies as stable, structured environments for the emergence of successive generations of actual occasions.

It is evident from modern society that marriage and commitment are beneficial, both in terms of a stable environment for raising children and as a safe and relatively non-contentious arrangement for se - xual relationships.

The natural processes, relationships and patterns of the wider, relatively stable, environment are also essential.

He posits that the emergence of the human species involved the emergence of a brain power that outstrips the relatively stable power of the environment to minister it control and direction.

They have established the properties that organisms, plant and animal, require to make the transition from the relatively supportive surroundings of a dense and stable medium — water — into a hostile and unstable environment made up of light gas, air.

The Yellow River, he argues, had existed for eons as a relatively calm and stable waterway until large numbers of Chinese farmers began disturbing the fragile environment of the upper river's Loess Plateau.

The latter are sessile organisms, and therefore inhabit a secure and stable environment, which provides relatively constant living conditions, and is compatible with the adoption of the K - strategy,» Nagler explains.

So sex would be an advantage when moving from a relatively stable belowground environment to a more challenging one, Norton says.

As Helen Epstein has recently pointed out, however, the relatively stable family environment in Uganda is significantly different from more violent and migratory conditions seen elsewhere in Africa:

Then, like now, an ongoing secular bull market was enjoying a deregulatory tailwind, a weak U.S. dollar, a relatively stable interest rate environment, and solid organic real growth that led to a collapsing output gap.

Interest rates can be relatively stable for extended periods, or they can rise quickly in response to bad economic news or world events that destabilize the financial environment.

Last year, NCHRX benefited from a relatively stable interest - rate environment, as well as good credit selection and sector emphasis, helped by a moderate narrowing of credit spreads in the market.

Tide - gauge data from Diego Garcia (1988 — 2000, and 2003 — 2011) show no statistically significant long - term rise, whilst the rates of rise obtained from the satellite altimeter record for 1993 — 2011 span the range of 0.16 — 4.56 mm yr − 1 in the surrounding sea areas (70 — 74 ° E and 4 — 9 ° S) and are also consistent with a zero rate except in the far south of the region... this has been a relatively stable physical environment, and that these low - lying coral islands should continue to be able to support human habitation, as they have done for much of the last 200 years.

However, removing the impact of mergers, team hires and fee inflation, underlying organic growth in legal work is unlikely to have accounted for much, which is perhaps surprising given the relatively stable pre-referendum economic environment.

Mobility — Just five years ago, most law firms were relatively stable work environments.

A range of factors may be of interest here, including relatively stable characteristics of children or their environment, that may have long - lasting and enduring consequences for their mental health, along with events that prompt changes in a child's mental state.

U.S. real estate is especially attractive to Chinese buyers, says the NAR, «because our government protects individual property rights, and our political and economic environment is relatively stable.»