Can you quantify your openness?

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

But these interests are hard to quantify.

This cost is difficult to quantify at this stage.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Likewise, increasing women's political representation would cost little, whereas the benefits would often be welcome but difficult to quantify. Essentially, women's priorities would begin to take equal precedence with those favored by men.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

For example, while the benefits of many of the financial engineering innovations of recent years are hard to prove, let alone quantify, the costs associated with them both economic and social are apparent and enormous.

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.

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

To quantify the losses of shoreline resources, Saudi Arabia combines the information obtained from this method with estimates of the severity of damage and expected recovery times, based on the Panel's recommendation in the third F4 report.

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.

With regard to the use of HEA, the Claimants state that HEA is a methodology that is widely accepted and is often used to quantify the ecological loss of services caused by oil spills and other released contaminants.

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.

In paragraph 114 of the report, UNDP agreed with the Board's reiterated recommendation that it (a) quantify the financial effect of qualified audit opinions on nationally executed expenditure and (b) evaluate such qualifications against the action plans for reasonableness.

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.

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.

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.

These cultural traits are difficult to quantify, so economists are uncomfortable in dealing with them. They are often passed down within families, so they elude social policies that are based on the notion that equality of opportunity can be created by government action.

In connection with the latter, the Committee is pleased to note that the Executive Director has endeavoured to quantify both indicators of achievement and outputs, and, as in the previous biennium, resource requirements are presented both by subprogramme and by source of funds.

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.

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.

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.

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.