It is difficult to quantify the precise impact of ISIS' efforts to promote its mission and recruit new members.

In each case, index roads are used to help quantify total impact of vehicle collisions on specific vertebrate taxa.

Projects have been launched with a view to developing appropriate tools to assess and quantify the impact and extent of land and ecosystem degradation.

Can you quantify your openness?

These studies, for instance, verify and quantify what should be obvious the loss of a job has a greater impact than can be accounted for just by the loss of income.

But these interests are hard to quantify.

This cost is difficult to quantify at this stage.

To this end it is desirable to gather empirical data to quantify the known reliability of EO in service, in particular its likelihood of generating a significant humanitarian impact if it fails to function as designed.

Saudi Arabia uses Habitat Equivalency Analysis ( HEA ) to quantify its losses.

More broadly, the Secretariat should quantify the savings made when proposing outputs for deletion.

The Cobb method was also one of the first techniques used to quantify sagittal deformity.

These cultural traits are difficult to quantify, so economists are uncomfortable in dealing with them.

Just because systemic effects are difficult to quantify does not mean that they are not real.

UNDP gender mainstreaming policies lack clear objectives, targets and time frames, making it difficult to quantify progress.

They never really codify it or qualify it or quantify it, and say, This is what I believe in.

1. Takes note of the fact that the impact of an increase in the membership of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the secretariat services required to properly facilitate the work of the Commission would not be material enough to quantify and that the increase would therefore have no financial implications

This is, I think, the best metric to use to quantify the decidedly sub par pace of today s jobless recovery in the US.

The agency should make a special effort to quantify and publicize the real harm to consumers caused by the cartels that it prosecutes.

The Panel, therefore, concludes that Kuwait has not provided sufficient evidence to enable the Panel to quantify the magnitude of any lost biomass.

They enable all team members to quantify the extent of problems, even in areas of functioning where one is not a specialist.

Part of the difficulty of contending with a crisis of confidence is that it is hard to quantify confidence in the first place.

Some countries, for example Kenya and the Republic of Korea, reported on efforts to quantify women's contribution to the gross domestic product (GDP).

Though very difficult to quantify, it is estimated that millions of people die prematurely due to air pollution each year worldwide.

We argue that such shifts reflect changing stories, epidemics of new narratives, and associated views of the world, which are difficult to quantify.

It is a useful tool for ranking projects because it allows you to quantify the amount of value created per unit of investment.

As well, there are benefits arising from the standardization of systems that are of a more qualitative nature and thus difficult to quantify.

Steps to quantify and include the unremunerated domestic activities of women in the gross national product. Integrated household surveys are regularly undertaken in Pakistan.

Speculative activities have plusses and minuses, much that is good and some that is bad, and these are very difficult to quantify.

More progressive clinicians have begun using IMT measurement as a way to quantify and track disease progression or stability within individual patients.

There has not been sufficient study to quantify the effects of pollinator decline on wild plants and wild life that depend on them for feed.

At some point I added a question to the release form that asked people to quantify themselves on a scale of one to 100 percent gay.

And this isn't something that you can quantify or track or measure, and we tend to undervalue things in society that we can't measure.

Some experts endeavoured to quantify the losses arising from inefficiencies, which in the example of textiles could amount to more than 12 per cent of total value.

The impact

Another approach for policymakers is to quantify the economic benefits of ecosystem services the miraculous yet mundane things that nature provides like erosion control, water management, and purification.

It is the Chinese who have endowed the term financial center with such weight and meaning by trying to dissect the functions of such cities and quantify every detail.

Impact

This may because work demands are easier to quantify that is, the boundaries and responsibilities of the family role is more elastic than the boundaries and responsibilities of the work role.

With regard to the process and methodology used by Saudi Arabia to quantify the loss resulting from damage to its terrestrial resources, the Panel finds that Saudi Arabia's approach is reasonable.

For the purposes of the present claim, the Panel considers that, while soot might have caused some short term damage, Saudi Arabia has not provided sufficient evidence to quantify such damage.

Impact All four telescopes have had a substantial impact on astronomy.

The Panel considers that the statistical approach used by Iran to quantify the impacts of pollutants from the oil well fires on its crops in 1991 is, in general, reasonable and appropriate.

And then we have two parameters which we were not able to quantify air pollution, including warming gases and air polluting sulfates and nitrates, but also chemical pollution.

Europe s image and soft power have undoubtedly continued to fade around the world (thought such a trend is difficult to quantify), while member states continue to cut defense and development budgets.

The Panel also finds that there is insufficient evidence to quantify damage to mangroves and coral reefs, if any, that can be attributed directly to Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait.