Sentences with phrase «substantial extent»

Differences in productivity growth between the United States, Japan and the euro area account to a substantial extent for the ten - year swings of the real dollar exchange rate over the past three decades, according to Cedric Tille, Nicolas Stoffels, and Olga Gorbachev.

The central thesis of the book is that, through the system of loaning, borrowing, repayment, tax haven and corruption, Africa is, in fact, a net creditor to the rest of the world: «The External assets of these [African] countries exceeded their external debts» and that, «to a substantial extent, African capital flight [i.e. continuing poverty] has been debt fuelled» (p. 9).

These modern proteins provide a fair representation of the β - lactamases from the several bacterial taxa (Fig. 1) and they span modern β - lactamase sequence space to a substantial extent, as they show limited sequence identity between themselves (Supplementary Table 4).

«In other words, from the perspective of a participant, the Nationwide Trust Company agreement establishes to a substantial extent where and how his or her benefits were going to be invested and who would be managing and administering his benefits account,» Gardner wrote.

This warming is due, to a substantial extent to human activity, particularly emissions of greenhouse gases 3.

As he explained, «The real results in terms of carbon emissions are likely to hinge to a substantial extent... on the degree of success in this sectoral rebalancing of the economy.»