The environmental impact was negligible.

This is not a negligible amount.

Generally, the hazard posed to people by a small arms ball round that has been fired and is now lying on the ground is negligible (lead toxicity not included).

Yet the cost would be anything but negligible.

Exports of goods of local origin were negligible.

According to the Economist Intelligence Unit, unemployment is negligible.23

But, despite that difficult context, the results are not negligible.

In economic terms, the negligible level of intra Maghreb trade can be explained by factors such as small market size and low trade complementarity the weak match, in other words, between exports and imports.

The opening of additional crossing points and small increases in trade between the two sides enhanced the opportunity for people to people contact, yet progress towards a political solution has been negligible at best.

Health problems will be negligible for all but a few nations.

But the share of models developed by Chinese carmakers is negligible.

Europe s political class needs to find the courage to take the next steps toward a closer union. The small price that nation states will have to pay is negligible compared to the likely consequences of inaction.

Mutual concessions can be crafted that ensure negligible political fallout for both leaders.

Assistance is often negligible during the most critical period after a peace settlement.

Myth 1 The cost of protection and its flipside, gains from trade, are negligible.

Its credentials for this role in the Middle East are by no means negligible.

Without those living in Lachin, then the total number of settlers is indeed negligible.

However this effect is negligible at the scale of accuracy that applies to a planetarium.

The order of magnitude similarity in period requirement excludes comets from the calculation, but the combined mass of the comets turns out to be negligible compared to the other small Solar System bodies, so their inclusion would have little impact on the results.

Their chances of doing so are negligible if, in ordinary circumstances, they do not work properly.

Over the next half century, even large reductions in CO2 emissions would have only a negligible impact.

However the proportion of such men is not very large and in rural areas may be negligible.

As already noted, the budgets committed by each of these organizations for that purpose are relatively negligible.

China s national health insurance plan, for example, boasts nearly universal coverage, but the benefits it provides are negligible.

But that pain is negligible compared to the pain that would be needed to fight runaway inflation later.

Indeed, the irony is that the social benefits of such subsidies are enormous, while the costs are negligible.

In 2005 he declared that there were only negligible differences between the two main parties on economic matters.

Experts also observed that Africa attracts low levels of FDI in general and negligible R D related activities.

Unfortunately, the Clause imposes negligible discipline, allowing all kinds of partial and selective trade liberalization among member countries.

Nonetheless, nominal rates do matter. When they are negligible, they flatter profit statements, while balance sheet problems slowly accumulate.

Indeed, we now know that the proportion of genetic sequences on earth that belongs to visible organisms is negligible.

It costs too much it is inconvenient and its environmental benefits are negligible (and, in some cases, non existent).

Moreover, its current contribution is also negligible, practically all of it coming from deforestation and degradation of forests and farmland.

The independent expert believes that unless security is restored to the whole country the chances of a successful transition are negligible.

It continues to be a standard setter in a world with strong incentives to evade standards and negligible sanctions for doing so.

Sexually transmitted diseases have been reduced but at a negligible and unsustainable pace from 199,188 cases in 1998 to 180,125 in 2002.

The signal that he intended to slow down government spending was a powerful one, but the immediate effect on the budget was negligible.

The tradable sector accounts for just 30 of the US economy (by value added), and employment growth in the tradable sector is negligible.

The government has maintained a sound fiscal policy, despite consecutive budget deficits in 2002 and 2003, and a negligible level of foreign debt.

From that standpoint, the latest manoeuvres orchestrated by the Moroccan authorities had far from negligible consequences for the search for a peaceful solution.

That amount may seem unrealistically high, but it is a negligible proportion of the estimated 160 billion spent on health related R D worldwide.

It is highly unlikely that the experimental error in the data is negligible, yet the curve falls exactly through each of the data points.

FDI is negligible in primary activities and low in manufacturing. An exception is Mexico, from which relatively more outward FDI has been in manufacturing.

As for the extent to which the people of the Cayman Islands were informed of the self determination options available, it was quite negligible.

Several peer reviewed studies, however, have effectively established that the impact of Bt corn pollen from current commercial hybrids on monarch butterfly populations is negligible.