Sentences with phrase «very significant contribution»

«Third, given that the judge had found that the wife contributed markedly to the day to day operation of the business, her input would have been a very significant contribution to such goodwill as was personal.

«Justice Deschamps has made a very significant contribution to the Supreme Court and, more broadly, to the administration of justice in Canada,» said McLachlin.

The RSPB has already delayed the project by two and a half years, during which time it could have displaced approximately one million tonnes of CO2, making a very significant contribution to the Scottish and UK governments» energy and climate targets.»

Dutch actor and comedian Ruben van der Meer is also a co-plaintiff in this case: «We can all contribute, but Shell could actually make a very significant contribution».

While I will not jump off and say we have found a natural replacement for heartworm prevention or treatment, I do think we have found a very significant contribution to it.

It was considered that Australia's VET system needs reform, and in 2015 the Australian Government, through The Hon Simon Birmingham, embarked on an ambitious reform agenda to lift the quality of both training providers and their courses, to enhance the very significant contribution that VET makes to the job prospects of students and to the competitiveness of Australia's economy, and lift the status of VET amongst families, students and employers, industry and community.

You have made a very significant contribution to the Government, of which you can be justly proud.

The third section is clearly Stackhouse's work and is a very significant contribution.

Not exact matches

Among her most significant contributions was the development and deployment of recruitment, hiring and onboarding programs to find, retain and provide growth opportunities for The Very Best People.

In fact, very few athletic endeavours do not involve a significant contribution from these muscles.

Sam was a wonderful mentor to emerging scholars, and, because of his support and advocacy, many of his former graduate students and postdoctoral fellows went on to have productive and sometimes very prominent careers, making significant contributions to the fields of school effectiveness and improvement and educational change.

His significant contribution was the term «charter school» — except he used it to describe a very different, loosely related idea.

Normally, contributor names are limited to those who made very significant and visible contributions, such as an illustrator for a children's book, an audiobook narrator, a translator, and so on.

«The tourism industry continues to be a very important segment of BC's economy, and Peter's leadership and contributions have a significant role in this.

«The Yorkshire Sculpture Triangle is now regarded as an unrivalled British centre for sculpture and Arts Council England's support for a new international sculpture triennial will enable this collaboration to take a very significant step forward and make an increasingly significant contribution to the UK's cultural landscape.»

Artists have a significant contribution to make to a country's wellbeing and as an artist working internationally it is very clear to me the benefits to a society where artists are valued.

My primary objection to nuclear power is precisely that, completely apart from its very real dangers and toxic pollution, it is not a short - term solution if «short - term solution» is defined as one that can make a significant contribution to reducing GHG emissions in the time frame within which such reductions are needed.

The contribution to sea surface height by thermal expansion is significant, but doesn't play a very big role in determining the temperature of the warm pool.

60 % saturation is very significant when total current CO2 is only 1 % of the IR resonating gasses and the human contribution is at most 1/3 of that 1 %.

Given that the published track records of some of these feedbacks show a very significant potential contribution to warming in the next 50 years, the DDP assertion of having a 66 % chance of staying under 2.0 C by continuing anthro - warming for 135 years looks to me like sheer wishful thinking.

He pointed out a variety of hurdles for current green - belt farmers: there has been a significant decline in horticultural production in London since 1970 and the contribution to the London economy of horticultural production is minor; vandalism and crime are a major issue; very few farmers own the land they manage; many farmers want to diversify (2005 survey), but they often see legislation as a barrier to this; many also want to release land for community use, but there is a need to balance the risks to the stakeholders; ageing is an issue as there are no young, skilled newcomers joining the industry.

I think this underlines the sophistry employed by the IPCC and others when attempting to convince policy makers of how «significant» the contribution from anthropogenic greenhouse gases has been with regard to the very moderate warming we have seen since 1951.

That would be a very significant scientific contribution, and in my humble opinion much more worth it than slaying some climate alarmist dragons that constantly contaminate the paleoclimatology with sloppy science.

«That's a very large, significant contribution, and two - thirds of that contribution is attributed to corn,» says Kucharik.

Nor the very significant design contributions he's made to the evolution of these human scale, natural environment - based activities.

e.g., using highly accurate line by line evaluation of all green house gases, Ferenc Miskolczi finds no detectable CO2 contribution to the global optical depth over 61 years, though there is very significant H2O impact.

Paolo Frankl, Head of IEA's Renewable Energy Division, commented: «Given that global energy demand for heat represents almost half of the world's final energy use - more than the combined global demand for electricity and transport - solar heat can make a significant contribution in both tackling climate change and strengthening energy security, The IEA's Solar Heating and Cooling Roadmap outlines how best to advance the global uptake of solar heating and cooling (SHC) technologies, which, it notes, involve very low levels of greenhouse - gas emissions.

I am sure they will make a significant contribution to our business and I am very much looking forward to working with them in the future.»

This Issue, in sum, is a rare contribution from the scholarly world — the publication of which is also a very significant public event...

I know I can make particularly important & significant contributions to the bottom - line and would like the opportunity, using my past experiences & accomplishments, to make a human resource person very happy & a company in...

Dr. Jemmott has received numerous awards for her significant contributions to the field of HIV / STD and pregnancy prevention research, including the U.S. Congressional Merit Award, Sigma Theta Tau National Honor Society's Episteme Award and Hall of Fame Award, and election to membership in the Institute of Medicine, an honor accorded to very few nurses.