Sentences with phrase «very limited degree»

For example, the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) and the Motor Insurers» Bureau (MIB) Untraced Drivers» Scheme do not pay legal costs, except to a very limited degree, and therefore costs will eat into client damages.

That takes time, so unfortunately while we're ready to talk to the press, it's to a very limited degree at this point.

Lending ebooks is possible, but only to a very limited degree and only if the publisher allows it.

He added: «While firms complain about a shortage of qualified physicists and engineers on the labour market, a very large number of graduates in these fields work in the financial sector, where they only use their STEM skills to a very limited degree.

It is only possible to give in a very limited degree to one who remains resolutely closed to relationship.

Not exact matches

«I think all of us are very bright, intelligent people — but we have, to different degrees, limited experiences in all the aspects that are necessary to run a successful business,» Chapin explains.

Indeed, there is a built - in limit, rare in our time, to the degree to which Christian Scientists can compromise this commitment without invalidating the very reason for the existence of their church.

A model of very limited, but never negligible, transcending, varying in degree from time to time and person to person, can provide a more realistic approach to the political world.

Limiting climate change to two degrees is now «a very, very difficult target to achieve,» says Mark New, a climatologist at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of Oxford.

There are some caveats with their study: The global climate models (GCMs) do not reproduce the 1930 - 1940 Arctic warm event very well, and the geographical differences in a limited number of grid - boxes in the observations and the GCMs may have been erased through taking the average value over the 90 - degree sectors.

I can understand that approaching equilibrium takes a long, long time, while TCR gives a better measure of what will happen over the next few decades (and that technology and society may be very different in 200 years time); but on the other hand, I thought nations had agreed to try to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees C overall, and not just to limit it to less than 2 degrees C by 2100.

Regarding carbohydrate source, a diet with a low versus high glycemic index can be used to reduce HbA1c moderately (by ∼ 0.5 %).13 Case series and pilot studies reveal more substantial improvements in HbA1c and other benefits (less hypoglycemia and reduced glycemic variability) with a very low — carbohydrate diet (VLCD).14 — 21 Although varying to some degree among studies, a VLCD is typically defined as ≤ 20 to 50 g per day of carbohydrates or ≤ 5 % to 10 % carbohydrates as a proportion of calories.22 — 24 In T1DM, small sample sizes and methodological issues limit the significance of VLCD benefits, and little is known about prevalence, practice, and sustainability.

Egoyan, as expected, has peppered Adoration with relentlessly morose figures whose behavior and motivations often stretch the very limits of credibility, though the superb work of the various actors (Speedman, especially) inevitably proves effective in infusing the broadly - drawn characters with a small degree of authenticity.

Due to a limited degree of correction the sideslip angle is not entirely neutralized by the AHK system; a small delay between steering input and output remains but the delay is very small.

It certainly had the desired effect, as the amount of body roll for such a large vehicle was limited to a handful of degrees, yet it has a very smooth ride.

For example, Patterson and Zangwill quote Schilder and Goldstein on a «notable tendency to react to a very limited aspect of the perceptual field, and a visual incapacity to relate perceived objects to their wider settings» in cases with a profound degree of mental confusion.»

So while these changes have empowered authors as a class and will make superstars of a limited number of them, for the majority the reality may very well be that the revenues from their work will not grow to any great degree and in many cases, it will never materialize.

If a dog with normally low production of lipase from the stomach develops a more mild degree of exocrine pancreatic damage than a typical dog with EPI, they may benefit from pancreatic enzyme supplementation because they are very dependent on pancreatic digestive enzymes and have much more limited ability to compensate with gastric lipase.

Now even in the best examples (such as Telltale's Walking Dead series) the changes we make to the story is cosmetic to a large degree, and genuine influence on the narrative is very limited.

There are some caveats with their study: The global climate models (GCMs) do not reproduce the 1930 - 1940 Arctic warm event very well, and the geographical differences in a limited number of grid - boxes in the observations and the GCMs may have been erased through taking the average value over the 90 - degree sectors.

Of course, since hurricanes and tropical storms are all just degrees of intensity of the same type of storm — tropical cyclones — and since there are a very limited number of data points of one limits the data to hurricanes, it makes sense to include tropical storms.

The use of the term «record - high» in the paper by Hatun et al. may be misleading, as this only refers to a limited region since the 1960s (southwest off Iceland) or a very short interval (one decade) and doesn't reflect the general degree of salinity in the entire basin over a longer period.

I'm not arguing that storage isn't very helpful, or necessary to meet some needs, but solar energy can do a whole lot more than «shaving peak loads», and the whole notion of how we think of «base» and «peaking» should be rethought, or at least (to the degree we use the notion) we should understand it's ultimate sources and limits.

«If we expect to limit warming to something tolerable, such as the 2 degree Celsius threshold widely accepted as a political judgment, the time is very close where you have to stop temporizing and start achieving reductions that are both large and rapid,» Dr. Somerville said.

As a best guess I'd say the sensitivity is most likely to be in the range 1.5 + / - 0.5 degrees C. I think it is very unlikely to be as high as 3 degrees C. Limitations on fossil fuel availabilty and a sensitivity in this range will limit further «anthropogenic» warming to below about +1.2 degrees C forever.

Although there is considerable scientific evidence that limiting warming to 1.5 degrees C is necessary to prevent very dangerous warming, a fact implicit in the recent Paris Agreement in which nations agreed to work to keep warming as close as possible from exceeding 1.5 degrees C additional warming, if the international community seeks to limit warming to 2 degrees C it must assure that global emissions do not exceed the number of tons of CO2 emissions that will raise atmospheric concentrations to levels that will cause warming of 2 degrees C.

Under the scale of risk used by IPCC, the words «very unlikely» mean there is just a one to 10 per cent chance of limiting the global temperature rise to two degrees centigrade or less.

«The path we need to follow is very clear if the world wants to limit the temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius,» Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) told delegates on the final day of the Forests Asia Summit in Jakarta.

A quick glance at the chart makes it clear that the INDCs that have been submitted by nations so far makes it very unlikely that the international community will be successful in limiting warming to 2 degrees C and virtually impossible to limit warming to 1.5 degrees C unless nations make significant increases in the ambition of their INDCs.

I can understand that approaching equilibrium takes a long, long time, while TCR gives a better measure of what will happen over the next few decades (and that technology and society may be very different in 200 years time); but on the other hand, I thought nations had agreed to try to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees C overall, and not just to limit it to less than 2 degrees C by 2100.

From 1850 to 1975 the trend was a very modest 0.25 degrees C per century, with 95 % confidence limits between 0.19 and 0.3 degrees per century.

The central banks have been hamstrung and limited to exercising a very modest degree of regulation over exchanges where cryptocoins are converted to and from fiat currencies.

There are some majors that have very limited opportunities for those who have only a bachelor's degree.

While I had an undergraduate degree, I had limited experience as a fire department officer and I was very young to be trying to getting such a position.