Sentences with phrase «small efforts amounting»

This will inspire everyone to keep going with their energy efficient practices and leave them feeling satisfied with their own small efforts amounting to a bigger gain.

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But such efforts require massive amounts of preparation and can only be done in small areas, Eakin said.
Every company that works on a global scale, whether a large or small organization, spends an enormous amount of time on compliance efforts, that do little to improve the bottom line, but can cost millions if ignored.
Pershing Square said it was getting out of the investment because it now represented a small percentage of the fund assets, while sucking up a disproportionate amount of the fund's time and effort.
Usually this initial group of users is small, for the simple reason that if there were something that large numbers of people urgently needed and that could be built with the amount of effort a startup usually puts into a version one, it would probably already exist.
However, the hackers likely pocketed a much smaller amount amid ongoing efforts to blacklist the tokens.
Their technology makes small business lending simple, decreasing the amount of time and effort it takes to secure funding.
In an effort to retain a small amount of the Bitcoin network's hashrate I've added two new USB miners to my collection of Bitcoin ASICs.
True, this has led to an explosion in new companies far beyond the levels seen previously, which is entirely expected — lower barriers to entry to any market means more total entries — but this has actually made it even more difficult for venture capitalists to invest in seed rounds: most aren't capable of writing massive numbers of seed checks; the amounts are just too small to justify the effort.
The rising popularity of social media marketing has directly increased the amount of efforts put into utilization of this marketing channel by small businesses.
In an effort to encourage investment, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act proposes to let businesses fully deduct («expense») 100 percent of the cost of certain investments and increase the amount that small businesses can expense (Section 179).
With a small amount of effort, you'll make a meal your family is sure to love.
Most of the time, I only put the smallest amount of effort into breakfast and fritters are basically savory pancakes.
Mr Cassidy: «We do spend a reasonable amount of our time and effort in trying to explain it all to parties generally, be they big businesses, small businesses or consumers.
You can rent a small amount of space, and setup your office away from home with little effort.
In our view, purchasing diapers in bulk is one of the best things a parent can do to make a chunky saving with a small amount of time and effort.
It takes such a small amount of effort and very little money to make your child's room feel organized.
AJOG articles are nothing more than publicity stunts created in an effort to maintain a monopoly on birth and not to forfeit even a small amount of business to competitors.
He said that city leaders «don't want to see people going to jail simply because they can't afford a small amount of bail for a minor offense,» but said that «there's more than one way to address that issue» and that he is «particularly focused on... some of the efforts to have a supervised release effort for very low - level crimes that we've seen done effectively before.»
If anything, the relatively small amount of money spent by the anti-gay marriage lobby underscores the deep - pocketed efforts from the opposite side of the issue.
The filing is a big haul for a mayor who has spent the last six months, and longer, under the cloud of state and federal investigations into his fundraising efforts, and who had pledged this spring to follow the example set by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, who raised the majority of his presidential campaign's funds from donors giving small amounts.
ALBANY — The New York Police Department, the mayor and the city's top prosecutors on Monday endorsed a proposal to decriminalize the open possession of small amounts of marijuana, giving an unexpected lift to an effort by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to cut down on the number of people arrested as a result of police stops.
Nakanishi says that the effort is «nonsense», arguing that such phytoremediation would absorb only small amounts of radioisotopes.
«Our big effort was to develop methods to measure very small amounts of organic chemicals.»
He wants to build up a fan base of people willing to chip in small amounts of cash to his research efforts.
He also notes that urea is a relatively small component of urine, so the limited amount of power that might be harvested from the team's new process might not recoup the effort or expense.
SETI efforts to date have only garnered a small, scattered amount of time on large radio telescopes, and they typically «piggyback» on other scientific observations, passively listening to whatever target other astronomers are investigating.
The amount of released CO2 that Shenhua has prevented seems small, but it is a symbol of China's continuing efforts to develop a cutting - edge technology it calls carbon capture, utilization and storage, or CCUS.
For the study, the researchers put 20 people in functional MRI (fMRI) scanners and asked them to rate the effort level required to swallow small amounts of water under two different conditions — after exercising, when they were thirsty; and later, after they'd already drank about a liter of water.
Even small amounts of weight loss can decrease the risk of disease, and every effort should be made to maintain a healthy BMI.
In other words, producing very high levels of force limits muscles to shortening slowly, while shortening limits muscles to producing a much smaller amount of force, even though the effort exerted is maximal in both cases.
The finding is based on what researchers say is the first effort ever to analyze exactly how people react the first time they come into contact with a small amount of nicotine.
I only wish I could net a paycheck — even a small one — for the amount of time and effort I put into it every day.
It really doesn't take a huge amount of effort to affect small change in the world.
A small amount of effort goes a long way with this elegant style!
It just takes a small amount of effort, and isn't it worth it for the girl of your dreams?
When it comes to dating services, there are really only a small portion that are worth your time, with the rest either being too much effort for a small amount of success or no success at all.
The sloppy script leaves the impression that Universal Pictures didn't care about giving Pitch Perfect a worthy ending but rather planned to make as much money with the smallest amount of effort possible.
Bertolucci, who won an Oscar for «The Last Emperor,» and who is generally associated with more epic efforts than this light, cloistered melodrama, approaches the inner turmoil of his characters from Lucy's viewpoint with no small amount of distance.
Screen topography is an afterthought here, but Wheatley, Jump, and the cast expend no small amount of effort in individuating the shooters, with a bevy of accents, comic deliveries, and personality quirks established in a prelude that gathers the players together to arrange the sale of some contraband AR - 70 assault rifles.
What's most important to understand about the digital textbook effort is that it's an opportunity to open up a large amount of existing public money that has been locked into use by a very small and closed set of publishers.
The state of Ohio, in an effort to rebut the incentive argument, explained that the amount ($ 2,250 maximum) was small in comparison with the per - pupil spending in regular public ($ 7,746), magnet ($ 7,746), and charter schools ($ 4,518).
In fact, the ten poorest counties tax themselves at a much higher rate than the ten wealthiest counties in an effort to keep up, but simply can't because the amount of revenue that can be generated is substantially lower due to the small tax bases.»
With even the largest private funding efforts amounting to a very small expenditure relative to public spending, achieving systemic impact requires changing the way public dollars are spent.
The steering wheel is small and needs a reasonable amount of effort to turn in parking lots.
Amazon and Kindle publishing have become one of my favorite ways to build my business, and with six books of my own, two I have co-authored, and many more I have contributed to, I realized very quickly that having your books rank highly is about much more than just keywords, and that the effort you make will be well worth the small amount of time it takes to help your book reach its full potential.
It's gratifying to view my increased web stats after such a small amount of effort.
Thing is, my layman's view is that it's unfortunate that the Fletchers of the world don't put the same amount of effort into doing something different in the small press publishing arena, but designed to treat an author RIGHT.
-- Doug C., Edina, Minnesota «With a small amount of effort in creating the macros, I was able to complete this sophisticated project [with MultiMacro] on almost 100 files in a small amount of time.
But after that small amount of effort is done, your PlayBook and Outlook contacts and calendars will be in lockstep, with just a little help from GMail.
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