Sentences with phrase «than a tipping point»

Many observers see this as yet another incremental step, rather than a tipping point — largely because the price tag (still $ 359) keeps it out of the mainstream.

A much more plausible scenario than tipping points (delta SLR), increasing weather extremes, or Arctic summer ice decline to zero (which you have pointed out is irrelevant to polar bears).

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Lately, there has been more than our fair share of news suggesting that the retail industry is at a tipping point.

In the next fiscal year, New Jersey's pension system will reach a «tipping point» to where it will pay more for retiree health premiums than active employees, a first in the state's history and «unsustainable,» the governor said.

And this could be a tipping point moment where we the people tell our politicians and our leaders what we want to happen to our economy, rather than having to listen to their bullshit about shall we have a stimulus or shall we not, or shall we do this or shall we not.

Uber, the ride - hailing giant valued at more than $ 50 billion, was known for its hard - charging stance into cities, bypassing local legislators until it reached a tipping point with consumers.

China focusing on domestic demand rather than exports for growth is worth watching closely: if wheels start falling off Chinese reform, that's the tipping point for a big hit to globalization.

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The tipping point in this winning noodle salad is a DIY chili oil that takes less than 5 minutes to make.

The trend has reached a tipping point: A recent Consumer Reports survey found more than 70 % of U.S. adults would rather have foods free from GMOs.

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The reserve scored the game's final six points, including a tip - in with less than four seconds to go that proved to be the game - winner.

Olivier Giroud is another point in fact, he misses far more than he scores and while I am impressed with his hold up play he is NOT fast enough or sharp enough to deliver the good that a sole striker or main tip of the spear should do.

I just feel like playoff LeBron will have OG in foul trouble before the opening tip lol — Ibaka at least has some clout with refs and can body LeBron more than say OG... you bring up a good point though about James» minutes ultimately exceeding 40 and therefore, matchups will vary throughout the game.

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The tile campaign comes at a time when the foster care crisis in Los Angeles is reaching its tipping point, with more children entering the foster system than there are families to take them in.

If there's anything history has taught us about a «healthy» British property market it's that house prices will increase quicker than average earnings, making this tipping point inevitable.

«If this is allowed to continue unchecked then a tipping point may be reached whereby prisons are more likely to become unstable than stable.

We're not at some kind of tipping point moment and there's a very clear message that we should talk about the economy rather than drifting off onto some of the subjects that might be dominating the Queen's speech.»

To keep the Amazon tipping point at bay, the researchers advocate not just strict control to prevent further deforestation but also the construction of a safety margin by reducing the deforested area to less than 20 %.

The authors conclude that there is a direct connection between neurogenesis and addiction, one that does not necessarily involve stress, and it could be the tipping point, increasing the vulnerability to addiction in one person rather than another.

Their mathematical model also predicted how the Disneyland outbreak helped push California back from the tipping point by making parents more afraid of the disease than the vaccine.

And for the composite microblade tip — modeled microblade technologies seen in Alaska since at least 13,000 years ago and a rare, preserved grooved antler point from a more recent Alaskan site used more than 8,000 years ago — Wood used a saw and sandpaper to grind a caribou antler to a point.

The claim that the biosphere is approaching a global tipping point remains no more than a contested and untested hypothesis.

The impending political tipping point is evident in nationwide opinion polls and in the climate policies already embraced by more than 850 towns and cities and 32 states.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 37 percent of us get less than seven hours a night, generally considered the tipping point for health problems.

The findings — presented this week at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union — prompted warnings from scientists that the Arctic Ocean might have hit a «tipping point» that could leave it clear blue by 2012, decades earlier than most had predicted.

SOME climate tipping points may already have been passed, and others may be closer than we thought, it emerged this week.

The fourth tipping point is Greenland's glaciers, which hold enough water to cause sea levels to rise by more than twenty feet.

«A tipping point means that a new behavior is more stable than the old behavior,» said Richard Behl, a professor of geological sciences at California State University, who was not affiliated with the study.

I think it could be more than theoretically interesting, because — if political opinion reaches a «tipping point» — one obvious quick / dirty «fix» is to dump a lot of dust at the L1 Lagrange Point (where the SOHO satellite is point» — one obvious quick / dirty «fix» is to dump a lot of dust at the L1 Lagrange Point (where the SOHO satellite is Point (where the SOHO satellite is now).

Indeed, one of the findings in the recent paper by Overpeck et al. (this weeks Science), is that even as the Greenland ice sheet melts faster than originally expected, it still won't provide sufficient meltwater forcing of the North Atlantic circulation (which is the feature of the climate system most commonly implicated in the discussion of «tipping points») to force any sort of threshold change.

Question: I had the impression that recent results implied we were hitting a tipping point faster than we thought.

IBM scientists have invented a tiny chisel with a nano - size tip 100,000 times smaller than a sharpened pencil point.

there has been 15 to 25 times more CO2 than current concentrations; the claim that this time we will reach a tipping point is alarmist, ludicrous, and totally without foundation,» declared atmospheric scientist Robert W. Endlich on July 12, 2009.

They may have crossed a tipping point due to increasing ocean acidification, raising the alarm that climate change impacts in the ocean are continuing to happen at a much quicker pace than scientists previously suspected.

Let's not forget that we're not even close to the tipping point as Americans still eat more than a million animals per hour.

In 2008, the world reached the tipping point where more people were living in urban areas than outside of them.

There's definitely no magic formula for commercial success and integrity has never been more important than it is now (an authentic blog is still the best kind), but there are certainly a few tipping points, or steps which seem to allow some bloggers to make it onto the A list.

The only obvious difference I can find is that the tip is not as pointed and it's slightly more firm than the pink beauty blender.

The points are smaller than a pencil so I hoped they'd be OK but I was prepared to remove the tips from the cable if necessary.

The tip of the lipstick is flat rather than being pointed.

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However there is a catch, as explained by Bloomberg: «There's a tipping point for what they're willing to shell out: no more than $ 15 a month, according to an informal survey of about a dozen millennials.

Those are dates you will have at some point, so we love to give you tips for them, but theres more to dating in Glasgow than that.

As Bulger grows stronger, Connolly and his partner (David Harbour) find themselves ever more deeply enmeshed, to the point that they are working more for the crime lord than for the FBI: doctoring records and tipping him off to threats from other agencies and their own informants, more than one of whom wind up dead.

At a certain point, more than a few audience members are going to start wondering if the tips on tailored suits and preparing a proper martini are really worth the abuse.

I believe we are starting to reach an important tipping point: where educational technology in the classroom can actually start saving a teacher time, rather than adding to their workload.

Malcolm Gladwell, the author of The Tipping Point, suggests that our public schools would benefit from a spirit of innovation rather than one of regimentation.Those of us who have been hanging around public education for more than, say, 15 years may remember a time when words like creativity and imagination were an important part of our conversations about curriculum design, teaching, learning, and lesson planning.