Not exact matches
In our evolutionary past, knowing whether that rustling in the bushes belonged to a tiger or a mouse could have meant the difference between life and deat
In our evolutionary past, knowing
whether that rustling
in the bushes belonged to a tiger or a mouse could have meant the difference between life and deat
in the bushes belonged to a tiger or a mouse could have
meant the
difference between life and death.
Explaining the relation between the Fed's creation (or destruction) of bank reserves and banks» creation (or destruction) of deposits takes a little effort, not
in the least because doing so
means confronting the different ways
in which economists on one hand and bankers and banking consultants on the other look at the process, and deciding
whether the
difference is due to substantive disagreement, or mere semantics.
Instead of supposing that the
differences among us
mean that there is no real world to which our language refers, I propose that we try the hypothesis that there is a very complex world to which we are all referring
in most of our language,
whether religious or not.
Whether they worked together or not, it would make no actual
difference in the universe so far as
meaning, purpose, and objective.
But it makes a great
difference whether we look for love's
meaning in static formal structures, or as the spirit at work
in a history where there is freedom, growth, and decision, and where new forms are created.
Meta - regression was also used to establish
whether mean concentrations of total cholesterol
in each study had any effect on
mean differences between feeding groups.
Strikingly, the treatment approach didn't make a
difference to 10 - year survival: Ninety - nine percent of the more than 1600 men
in the trial were alive after a decade,
whether they had initially received radical surgery, radiation, or active monitoring, which
meant no immediate therapy, but intervention as needed.
To further examine
whether psychophysiological interactions predicted behavioural performance, we additionally correlated the
mean difference in beta estimates of each significant PPI cluster with participants» overall sensitivity
in detecting grammatical violations.
To me eating real food
means asking myself
whether the food
in front of me was made by nature or by science, reading a list of ingredients and understanding what each one is and why it is
in that food product, and understanding that there is a fundamental
difference between food and a food product.
If you're going to reply, take your time
in working out what to say — it could
mean the
difference between
whether you get a response or not.
«it makes no
difference whether that subsidy is a handout
in cash, or special tax treatment that
means a company pays less tax than its rivals.
As Porter et al. note, «
Whether these
differences between Common Core and Massachusetts
mean that Common Core represents a better curriculum is difficult to judge, although at least at grade 7
in [English language arts], there is a shift
in the Common Core standards toward greater emphasis on higher cognitive demand.»
As he wrote recently
in his blog, «Once kids are fluent decoders, much of the
difference among readers is not due to
whether [they're] a «good reader» or «bad reader» (
meaning [they] have good or bad reading skills).
Now that we understand the
differences in what people
mean when they say «debt consolidation,» let's look at some of the most well - known christian debt consolidation companies and assess
whether they can provide a good experience to customers:
That
means if you measure your returns
in your home currency it would make no
difference whether you held HXT.U or its Canadian - dollar equivalent, HXT.
Whether you've earned them through hotel stays or rewards credit cards, how you redeem them could
mean the
difference between an uneventful airport hotel
in a major city or the vacation of a lifetime
in an exotic locale.
A big factor
in those oscillations is ENSO —
whether there is a a warm El Niño event, or a cool La Niña event makes an appreciable
difference in the global
mean anomalies — about 0.1 to 0.2 ºC for significant events.
MBH98 were particularly interested
in whether the tree ring data showed significant
differences from the 20th century calibration period, and therefore normalized the data so that the
mean over this period was zero.
There will be deep philosophical and ethical
differences on
whether we have the right to coerce billions of people for an unclear likelihood of preventing a 2 - 4 C increase
in global
mean surface temperatures by 2100.
Pat, the lag to which you allude,
in fact, makes a minor but significant
difference to «the result» (
meaning the correlation between CO2 and temperature
in the record), but
whether or not it does is really very much beside the point.
It makes no
difference to this probability (the likelihood)
whether you take the hypothesis that the calendar year is 300 to
mean that it is
in the interval (299.9,300.1) or that it is
in the interval (299.8,300.2), which is why it is generally pointless to imagine small intervals around values that are conditioned on.
There was no mention of using a «
mean» to determine the start value of the projection (
in part because the IPCC were explicitly projecting temperatures to rise, there was no expectation that temperature measurements would drop so much that years later it makes the
difference whether the models can be considered accurate).
The only real
difference is that the arrangements are locked
in for a shorter amount of time, and that the Productivity Commission will advise government on
whether and when a shift to a principles - based system of industry assistance — which would likely
mean less free money — should take place.
Once a colleague is not
in the same physical office, the technologies discussed earlier
mean that it should make no
difference whether that colleague works from home or a different office.
«labour dispute»
means a dispute or
difference concerning terms, tenure or conditions of employment or concerning the association or representation of persons
in negotiating, fixing, maintaining, changing or seeking to arrange terms or conditions of employment, regardless of
whether the disputants stand
in the proximate relation of employer and employee.
Having an attorney preserve crucial evidence
in the initial days following your accident could
mean the
difference as to
whether or not you are able to establish a claim for your injuries.
Something To Prove: The Impact of the Burden of Proof
in Property Damage Claims - WP - Establishing
whether the plaintiff or defendant has the burden of proof
in a civil action can
mean the
difference between winning and losing a case.
Although I am new to infinite banking, the use of participating whole life insurance as a financial tool, the fact that it is funded by life insurance
means that the agent can make all the
difference in whether the concept works to its» maximum.
Whether you have just settled down
in Nevada to start your family, or you have recently become your own boss and set up a business, life insurance can
mean the
difference between enabling your family to focus on their time together instead of worrying about how they will pay the mortgage or if the business will survive without you.
Whether you have an outstanding ticket, an old clunker, or your car is on the latest recall list for ending up
in a ditch upside - down, learning the best and right ways to deal with car issues can
mean the
difference between planning your weekend and planning a wake.
It
means the choice will come down to some little things: how each phone feels
in the hand,
whether you prefer Nokia's included apps more, if a 0.3 - inch
difference in screen size is a big deal, and price.
Job seekers beware — when you're trying to get your foot
in the door, personal branding can
mean the
difference between
whether that door gets opened, or slammed
in your face.
For me this
means that when governments develop systems, be they education, health or any
in other area, they have a duty to design such systems so that they accommodate
difference,
whether the people affected are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, refugees, have a disability or are gender different.
While there is now no
difference before the law
whether a married or a divorcing couple are same - sex or different - sex, the newness of this situation
means that helping professionals should inform themselves and encourage same - sex couples to inform themselves about the legal rights and ramifications of what, until recently, had been a societal status
in which they had no stake.
Fig 1 illustrates the
mean differences in adolescent disclosure and perceived monitoring knowledge based on
whether adolescents perceived their parents as needing to monitor more or less than a «good parent» or maintain the same amount of monitoring.
However, relatively few studies have investigated
whether there are
differences in brain structure between these subgroups.We acquired diffusion tensor imaging data and used tract - based spatial statistics (TBSS) to compare adolescents with CD and high levels of CU traits (CD / CU +; n = 18, CD and low levels of CU traits (CD / CU -; n = 17) and healthy controls (HC; n = 32) on measures of fractional anisotropy (FA), axial (AD), radial (RD) and
mean (MD) diffusivity.
Because the new buyer's price will inevitably be higher than the one the original buyer agreed to pay to the builder, there is an important issue as to
whether the
difference —
meaning the original buyer's profit — should be subject to HST (and if so, who will pay it
in the transaction).
Just be cautious because that $ 3000 you spent during the year to access commissions asap may
mean the
difference in whether you operate next year or not.
If you're
in the market for a new home you better be researching local school districts — it could
mean all the
difference for your family,
whether you have children or not.