Sentences with phrase «such little influence»

Why do headteachers have such little influence on how the country's education policy is developed?

Like Rizzo and Ehrenberg, Kim and Ko do not discuss the implications of this finding, nor do they provide any thoughts on why appropriations appear to have such little influence on tuition.

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Nonetheless, she is surely correct that conversion narratives (such as, most famously, Augustine's Confessions) are of little help in plotting these social changes and that Christianity was indeed influenced by the values of aristocratic culture.

Indeed we may say, perhaps a little exaggeratedly but not without reason, the liturgy such as it is actually performed today — though, we hope, against its own ultimate principles — this liturgy itself increases this greater danger, because it often has a harmful influence on the private prayer of individuals and groups.

There were some influential neo-paganists in the Nazi Party, such as Heinrich Himmler and Alfred Rosenberg, but they were a minority and their views had little influence on Nazi ideology and Hitler denounced Germanic paganism in his autobiographical «Mein Kampf» and condemned Rosenberg's and Himmler's paganism as «nonsense».

Such acceptance of Hellenistic thought, however, while typical of Alexandrian Judaism, had little, if any, influence in Palestine and, although mildly evident in the Apocrypha, it did not affect the Hebrew Old Testament.

Such strident rhetoric does little to win friends and influence people.

It must be recognized, indeed, that there are comparatively few narratives which correspond in any way to events in the ministry of Jesus, and that where such correspondence is to be found, as for example in the baptism or crucifixion narratives, the gospel account has been so influenced by the theological conceptions and understanding of the Church that we can derive little, if any, historical knowledge of that event from those narratives.

As her report put it: «The research suggests that, while there may be little return to trying to make students more gritty as a way of being (i.e., in ways that would carry over to all aspects of their lives at all times and across contexts), students can be influenced to demonstrate perseverant behaviors — such as persisting at academic tasks, seeing big projects through to completion, and buckling down when schoolwork gets hard — in response to certain classroom contexts and under particular psychological conditions.»

In any event, a prime minister who is forced to leave office due to scandal or similar circumstance will usually have little if any ability to influence his party on the final selection of a new leader and anyone seen to be having close ties to such a prime minister will have limited if any serious prospect of being elected the new leader.

It included graphs that appeared to show a remarkably close correlation between solar activity and terrestrial temperatures — suggesting that other factors, such as carbon dioxide levels, have little influence on global temperatures.

Such a strong European influence also obscures the historical signal, so Boyko's team focused on data from indigenous dogs with little modern European influence.

Although much research has examined traumatic brain injury (TBI) as a possible risk factor for later life dementia from neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), little is known regarding how TBI influences the rate of age - related cognitive change.

Many other factors influence regional climate variations such as the Little Ice Age, the Medieval Warm Period, and the Younger Dryas climate excursion.

As the investigators note, the rapid age - related arterial stiffening and cardiac arrhythmias that appear to be at cause for the majority of deaths in BubR1H / H mice were not attenuated by ablating p16Ink4a - expressing senescent cells — but these tissues had little burden of such cells, so this finding reinforces the conclusion that the multiple aging phenotypes arrested in these mice when senescent cells were ablated is attributable specifically to the removal of their baleful influence on local tissues.

The Academy Awards are, of course, just another election, and as such heavily influenced by buzz, timing, momentum, lobbying, strategic public appearances and other the machinery that has little or nothing to do with the actual candidates.

Fourth, young people without such influences are doubly victimized by the schools» failings - because they have little with which to compensate, either in acquiring knowledge or in forging decent civic values.

Fischer and Watson also expected to find that demographic and socio - economic factors such as race, ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status would lead to aggression, as earlier studies had indicated; instead, they found that these factors had little influence in whether or not a child became violent later in life.

After analyzing such evidence, there is little doubt that school choice, and failing schools writ - large, influence levels of violence and criminal activity.

It helps us to prioritize initiatives, counteract negative influences, and get rid of practices — such as retaining students — that show little evidence of improving learning outcomes.

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Although their influence is now somewhat diminished, for more than a century they ran a text book marketing campaign that ensured they earned vastly inflated prices for their shiny little rocks - first by buying up the newly discovered South African diamond mines so that they effectively controlled the market, then by creating the impression of scarcity by ruthlessly controlling supplies; and then, in their pièce de résistance, commissioning one of the most successful marketing campaigns in history to create the tradition of giving diamonds as engagement gifts; which includes the famous «diamonds are forever» advertising campaign and sponsoring movies such as Gentleman Prefer Blonds (1953), To Catch A Thief (1955) and The Pink Panther (1963).

«Down payment»: It's amazing that these two little words have such a profound influence on your homeownership process — and your life!

When Treasury Bonds Perform Well Because these securities have such little risk, their performance is typically influenced almost entirely by interest rates.

«The drug industry has sadly brainwashed many ignorant vets into thinking that their products such as vaccinations and pharmaceutical drugs have little side effects or chronic influence on health in potentially negative manners.

I also see a very heavy influence from games such as Adventure Island, Super Mario Bros. and even a little Mega Man.

However, Brice has said that Ghibli films such as Kiki's delivery service (which look similar to Little Witch Academia) did influence the game's art style.

The exhibition will also feature other documents, including photographs and archives, which will shed light on a little - known aspect of this artist's life and work, that being the influence of the South of France and French painters (such as Paul Cézanne and Jean Lurçat), gleaned during Nash's various journeys to France in the 1920s and 1930s, including a short stay in Arles.

The influence of modern masters such as Henri Matisse and Piet Mondrian can be seen in works from the 1980s, such as Matisse (1989), a white and dark blue shaped canvas with a geometric motif, and Little Mondrian (1985) and Sliding Square: Green and Gold (1975), which are made up of rectilinear forms.

By 1933, the young artist had settled in the French capital, where he was surrounded by a number of painters devoted to surrealism, and although he claimed little affinity with this style, his landscape work sometimes hints at the influence of surrealist masters such as Giorgio de Chirico.

Many other factors influence regional climate variations such as the Little Ice Age, the Medieval Warm Period, and the Younger Dryas climate excursion.

As more optical thickness is added to a «new» band, it will gain greater control over the temperature profile, but eventually, the equilibrium for that band will shift towards a cold enough upper atmosphere and warm enough lower atmosphere and surface, such that farther increases will cool the upper atmosphere or just that portion near TOA while warming the lower atmosphere and surface — until the optical thickness is so large (relative to other bands) that the band loses influence (except at TOA) and has little farther effect (except at TOA).

And Rosenberg's second point, that even a perfect greenhouse policy is unlikely to have a measurable influence on such threats, is buttressed by Brad Plumer's relevant recent Washington Post analysis of how little even aggressive carbon dioxide reductions would affect the pace at which sea levels rise: «Can we stop the seas from rising?

What is the importance of man's influence on climate if the impacts of such change are of little import?

92) If one factors in non-greenhouse influences such as El Nino events and large volcanic eruptions, lower atmosphere satellite - based temperature measurements show little, if any, global warming since 1979, a period over which atmospheric CO2 has increased by 55 ppm (17 per cent).

Such a prior distribution is intended to be used on the basis that it is uninformative and will influence the final probability density little, if at all.

Coastal ecosystems with attenuated or low - level watershed influences, such as Antarctic ecosystems and those adjacent to arid regions, are expected to show patterns consistent with OA by anthropogenic CO2 as they typically show little pH variability comparable to open - ocean waters (Hofmann et al. 2011; Matson et al. 2011; Falter et al. 2013).

It seems to me that unless a climate model can both calibrate the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age and then validate the 20th and 21st Century true (un-manipulated) temperatures using all of the known influencing factors, it can not be claimed that such a model is a representative simulation of earth's climate.

Knowing little about Wills law, they tried to claim that Wills could be done via an algorithm but it was easily demonstrated that such a process was seriously deficient in important ways including, among others, determining capacity and the presence or lack of undue influence.

Macon has been influenced by musicians with noteworthy ones such as the Alman Brothers and Little Richard.

However, communication is such a broad term that employers may want you to define your abilities in this area a little more closely, for example, by referring to persuasion, negotiation or influencing.

In Singapore, cancer is still seen as a terminal disease with little hope of recovery, and there is also a stigma against psychological counselling and psychiatric support, facilitated by the general stigma against mental illness amongt both patients and, paradoxically, healthcare professionals.67 Furthermore, a family - centred model of decision - making tends to be predominant in Asian populations, 68 and in Singapore this is further encouraged by public policy such as healthcare subsidies that are based on a calculation of the immediate family's total income, rather than individual income.69 Beliefs or expectations of the role that the family caregiver ought to play may thus exist and may influence the way individuals respond to the intervention.

«A benefit to studying child characteristics is that they are perhaps the most easily influenced component of resilience while educators have little influence over a child's family in larger environmental factors it can be said that they have the power to influence certain child characteristics, such as self - concept» (Nesheiwat, & Brandwein, 2011).

Research conducted to date suggests that parental help with children's homework yields little positive influence on Asian American and Asian immigrant students» academic achievement even though such involvement appears to boost European American students» educational performance.