Sentences with phrase «widespread an impact as»

As she began to realize the gravity of the problem, it became obvious that relieving the suffering of animals and having a widespread impact as an animal advocate would require more than her voice and efforts alone.

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The regulator also painted the larger impact, with the supposedly widespread job losses that will result from those crappy channels folding, as exaggerations:

Sun TV News, though it has yet to launch, has already drawn comparisons to the Fox News Channel in the U.S. Roughly two - thirds of the respondents, however, believe Sun TV News will have less impact in Canada than Fox News has had in the U.S. «I'm as conservative as it gets in this country, but the Fox News network is designed for a constituency that is just not widespread in Canada.»

What remains to be seen is how widespread adoption might impact cryptocurrency as an indicator of social status.

Just as critical as the direct impact of widespread tariffs are the reverberations across other markets.

The swing revival did have the potential to make a widespread impact, as its lasting legacy in giving ball - room dancing a boost attests, but it was a far more ambitious idea than those other revivals, since for it to really work you needed a) jazz - musician participation, b) bigger bands, and perhaps even c) supper - club like venues.

Yesterday, five judges of the International Tribunal against Monsanto stated in their advisory opinion that the corporation «has engaged in practices which have negatively impacted the right to a healthy environment, the right to food, and the right to health» citing its widespread dissemination of dangerous agrochemicals in industrial agriculture, the introduction and release of GM crops, and introduction of persistent organic pollutants such as PCB in the environment.

Yes, it wasn't as widespread as some expected, and yes it kind of died when Arsenal had their miracle late run, but the use of flying banners and images projected onto the Emirates walls had major impact.

(After all, if a 10 - 20 % error rate hasn't prevented the widespread use of neurocognitive tests such as ImPACT, why should it be any different with sensors?)

As such, I recognize and appreciate that there are some in the concussion community, especially scientists - who by their very nature are appropriately cautious in endorsing any new technology without validation via rigorous, peer - reviewed testing - and some helmet manufacturers who believe that impact sensor technology has not advanced sufficiently to warrant widespread use in contact and collision sports.

As such, I recognize and appreciate that there are some in the concussion community, especially scientists - who by their very nature are appropriately cautious in endorsing any new technology without validation via rigorous, peer - reviewed testing - as well as some of the helmet manufacturers themselves, who believe that impact sensor technology has not advanced sufficiently to warrant their widespread use in contact and collision sportAs such, I recognize and appreciate that there are some in the concussion community, especially scientists - who by their very nature are appropriately cautious in endorsing any new technology without validation via rigorous, peer - reviewed testing - as well as some of the helmet manufacturers themselves, who believe that impact sensor technology has not advanced sufficiently to warrant their widespread use in contact and collision sportas well as some of the helmet manufacturers themselves, who believe that impact sensor technology has not advanced sufficiently to warrant their widespread use in contact and collision sportas some of the helmet manufacturers themselves, who believe that impact sensor technology has not advanced sufficiently to warrant their widespread use in contact and collision sports.

It is a response to widespread concern about the impact on communities of losing local services such as post offices and bank branches.

The work revealed that spider webs consisting of uniform thread diameters are better suited to bear force applied at a single point, such as the impact coming from flies hitting webs; a nonuniform diameter can withstand more widespread pressure, such as from wind, rain, or gravity.

Regional studies suggest that marine heat waves may provoke «widespread loss of habitat - forming species such as kelps and corals, drive shifts in species distributions, alter the structure of communities and ecosystems, and have economic impacts on aquaculture and seafood industries through declines in important fishery species,» they note.

But in the face of widespread concern about water contamination, 21 US states have adopted mandatory disclosure rules for the mixtures, making it easier for scientists such as Ellis, of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, to assess their impacts.

«As impacts between icy bodies occur throughout the solar system, then complex organic molecules are also, very probably, widespread.»

As another paper published yesterday, this one in Science Express, emphasizes yet again, widespread use of a vaccine could have a powerful impact against the H1N1 virus — if it arrived early enough and was widely used.

Arsenic in groundwater is a problem in many countries, including parts of the United States, but it is widespread in Southeast Asia, where its impact on poor communities has been described as the largest mass poisoning in history.

Masters et al. discuss the often overlooked contribution of the stromal microenvironment as an extrinsic factor to immunosenescence and inflammation.12 Accumulation of senescent stromal cells which demonstrate the senescent associated secretory phenotype (SAPS), may alter tissue structure and function, and increase local inflammation.13 The impact of altered lymphoid stromal microenvironment may be widespread and include altered haematopoiesis, reduced lymphatic flow and disrupted secondary lymphoid organisation, which consequently will alter antigen transportation and presentation to T cells.12

Because huge expanses of the deep ocean will be exposed to changing environmental conditions as a result of climate change (Mora et al., 2013; this study), the societal impacts of climate change in the deep sea will undoubtedly be widespread, complex and dynamic.

«There's a lot of research on how different kinds of environmental disasters — such as forest fires, hurricanes, air pollution, or heat waves — impact human health, but the most widespread natural disaster is drought,» said lead author Jesse Berman, a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale FE&S, in a press release.

Most reef fish at least depend on corals as a nursery, meaning the recent heat wave could have widespread impacts on breeding success that affects commercial fisheries down the line.

Symptoms of PMDD are experienced during the same time frame as PMS but are more widespread and have a greater impact on the body.

April 22, 2013 • Impact from the furloughs has been neither extreme nor widespread, with busy airports in Chicago, Atlanta, and Los Angeles reporting no or few delays as of early Monday afternoon.

Gardner's research entitled «Ethical Perspectives on Young Persons» Use of Digital Media» is one of many studies — to be conducted as part of a $ 50 million effort by the MacArthur Foundation over the next five years — on understanding the educational impact of the widespread use of digital media on youth.

Chile's voucher program has led to widespread socio - economic stratification and a decline in public school enrollment, all while making little to no impact on student achievement.63 The program's design essentially creates three school systems: public schools attended mostly by the lowest - income students; voucher - subsidized private schools attended by more middle - class students, as they can charge additional fees or tuition; and nonsubsidized private schools attended by the wealthiest students.

As BBA's 2015 statement on ESEA reauthorization and this open letter from BBA and key allies assert, a comprehensive, supports - based approach to education is critical to enabling our education system to help counter the impacts of widespread societal inequities.

Yet we still face daunting challenges as we try to scale this proven model to achieve widespread impact, especially when resources are constrained and the effectiveness of investments is under increased scrutiny by grantmakers, individual donors and public agencies.

Damage was widespread across Toronto market sectors as investors try to gauge how a drop in oil prices of around 40 per cent since mid-summer will impact on the Canadian economy.

As we see societies evolve to respond to climate change, there are widespread changes to regulations and industries that impact the global investment community.

«While annual spending for the pet industry is reported each year, this is the first time that anyone has looked at the widespread impact of the pet industry as a whole on the U.S. economy,» said Dr. Terry L. Clower, Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University's Schar School of Policy and Government and Director of its Center on Regional Analysis, who headed the study.

Political instability in some overseas destinations has also added an undesirable dimension to some holidays abroad, while climatological factors such as flooding and heavy snowfall have caused widespread disruption that has had a big impact on overseas travel.

This exhibition addressed the widespread societal transformation, engendered by Japan's new openness to the outside world during the nineteenth century which greatly impacted the print culture known as Ukiyo - e that flourished in the theater and courtesan quarters of Edo (modern Tokyo).

Specific examples of additional impacts include a reduction in capital equipment acquisitions across the entire lab with computing alone sliding from $ 7 million to $ 3 million, the elimination of NCAR's lidar research facility as well as the extra-solar planet program, delays in computer modeling and prediction efforts for both weather and climate, reductions in the solar coronal observing program, a reduction in the number of post doctoral appointments, reduction of the societal impacts program, and widespread deferred maintenance and delays in equipment and instrument acquisition and replacement.

Public health experts who work on the «shale fields» among impacted citizens have been ringing alarm bells: «I don't know if I have ever seen a problem as widespread as this with as little information collected about it, and as relaxed an attitude in terms of the sense of urgency, in the sense of responsibility on the part of the state and federal governments, and for that matter, the drilling industry,» cautioned a seasoned public health toxicologist David Brown from Southwest Environmental Health Project in my interview for Gas Rush Stories.

Steve McIntyre: «If you are not a climate scientist (or a realclimate reader), you would almost certainly believe, from your own experience, that cities are warmer than the surrounding countryside From that, itâ s easy to conclude that as cities become bigger and as towns become cities and villages become towns, that there is a widespread impact on urban records from changes in landscape, which have to be considered before you can back out what portion is due to increased GHG.

That is one of the reasons that clouds get ignored as they generally are not widespread or dense enough to be considered to have a significant impact on incoming solar radiant energy.

As EPA nears the release of its finalized hydraulic fracturing / water report, the weight of scientific study and analysis backs the agency's preliminary conclusion that there's no evidence that fracking has led to «widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water resources in the United States.»

Despite clear evidence that the practice has negative impacts, such as increased seismic activity and air and groundwater pollution, certain to worsen as fracking becomes more widespread, the benefits of a ready flow of natural gas outweigh these «speculative» risks.

Snowfall varies across the region, comprising less than 10 % of total precipitation in the south, to more than half in the north, with as much as two inches of water available in the snowpack at the beginning of spring melt in the northern reaches of the river basins.81 When this amount of snowmelt is combined with heavy rainfall, the resulting flooding can be widespread and catastrophic (see «Cedar Rapids: A Tale of Vulnerability and Response»).82 Historical observations indicate declines in the frequency of high magnitude snowfall years over much of the Midwest, 83 but an increase in lake effect snowfall.61 These divergent trends and their inverse relationships with air temperatures make overall projections of regional impacts of the associated snowmelt extremely difficult.

At present, as I discussed in my analysis article on Tuesday, evidence for widespread ecological damage is thin; so we have to presume that as of now, the significant volume of oil that remains (even a quarter of 4.9 milion barrels is still far more than released by the Exxon Valdez) is not hitting enough of those key zones to be having a major impact.

In its analysis of trends in the impacts of disasters on child welfare, the report differentiates between high impact disasters (intensive), often referred to as «emergencies», and those lower impact events that are persistent and widespread (extensive) but represent a significant yet largely unrecognised component of disaster impacts and costs.

During a 10 - year investigation detailed in the latest issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research, Stanford University scientist Mark Jacobson isolated the widespread warming effects from all sources of soot â $» the visible residue of burned wood, crops, oil, biomass and other fuels â $» from the climate impacts caused by greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane.

From that, it's easy to conclude that as cities become bigger and as towns become cities and villages become towns, that there is a widespread impact on urban records from changes in landscape, which have to be considered before you can back out what portion is due to increased GHG.

3) indirect impacts mediated through societal systems, such as undernutrition and mental illness from altered agricultural production and food insecurity, stress and undernutrition and violent conflict caused by population displacement, economic losses due to widespread «heat exhaustion» impacts on the workforce, or other environmental stressors, and damage to health care systems by extreme weather events.

Alaska has warmed twice as fast as the rest of the nation, bringing widespread impacts.

Because of its cold - adapted features and rapid warming, climate change impacts on Alaska are already pronounced, including earlier spring snowmelt, reduced sea ice, widespread glacier retreat, warmer permafrost, drier landscapes, and more extensive insect outbreaks and wildfire, as described below.

Despite a half century of climate change that has significantly affected temperature and precipitation patterns and has already had widespread ecological and hydrological impacts, and despite a near certainty that the United States will experience at least as much climate change in the coming decades, just as a result of the current atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, those organizations in the public and private sectors that are most at risk, that are making long - term investments and commitments, and that have the planning, forecasting and institutional capacity to adapt, have not yet done so.

After years of scientists» warnings about the impacts of greenhouse gases from burning coal and other fossils fuels, climate change began to emerge as a widespread concern.

I think last winter's weather would qualify as a black swan: totally unanticipated (and counter to expectations), with widespread adverse impacts (and in hindsight, we had the information if not the knowledge to predict something like this.)