If implemented now, steep rate cuts can still have a significant positive effect. If delayed, their effect is likely to be minimal.

Significant changes in criminal policies and law enforcement practices have had a positive effect on the social, political and criminal justice situation in the country.

If they don t, the positive effect will vanish.

I hope to effect positive change in the world.

Again, its effect, thus far, has been significant.

This threatened to have significant effect on the Completion Strategy.

While some jobs moved abroad, the net effect was still greatly positive.

Performing good music in North Korea just might have a positive effect.

But, despite some transitional market turbulence, the overall effect will likely be positive.

The positive effect of the ISAF presence in Kabul was immediate and welcome.

(b) A positive effect on balance of payments of countries and reduced import dependency

Its one positive effect was to launch an effort to reform the international monetary system.

This is a significant effect, even by the standards of China s superlative growth performance.

Studies have shown that even partial sleep deprivation has a significant effect on mood.

Several cases were mentioned where customs modernization had a significant positive impact on revenue collection.

However, if there is a significant risk of cancer in a particular patient (BRCA positive, very positive family history, palpable mass), mammography may still be important.

In any case, there is reason to doubt whether media coverage has any such protective effect, and even where coverage is intensive, its positive effect may be doubted.

But there would also be a positive effect on saving and thus on wealth next year and beyond.

The status of UN Habitat as a Programme appeared to have had a positive effect on its results.

Such a choice will obviously not have a very positive effect on the sustainable management of natural resources.

Without such an approach, increased awareness of victimization could have the positive effect of creating empathy and understanding, but the negative effect of reinforcing stereotypes of women as helpless.

The theoretical effect on employment is unambiguously positive, because marginal workers will be more productive as they work longer.

Yet an analysis of Chile s voucher program found no positive effect on students test scores or years in school.

In that case, the stimulus will have little positive effect on household spending, but will worsen the budget deficit.

Ribavirin and other antiviral drugs, as well as treatment with interferons, do not have a positive effect in patients.

Grenada fully supports the proposal to effect positive change within the Secretariat and within all organs of this body.

To be sure, in addition to the negative storage effect, there might be a positive effect on the world climate insofar as bio fuels may replace fossil fuels for combustion processes.

Some evidence indicates that regular exercise has a positive effect on the physical and mental health of those with schizophrenia.

There is thus little doubt that internal conflicts can have a significant effect on inter State treaty relations.

There have been many studies done on the effect of positive emotion on the cognitive mind and there is speculation that positive mood can affect our minds in good or bad ways.

To be sure, China s national balance sheet, which boasts positive net assets, has garnered significant attention in recent years.

The Programme of Action also acknowledges that international migration can have significant positive impacts on development, especially through remittances.

Disengagement was a significant step towards implementing the road map, and positive steps had been taken on both sides.

Mr. Castillero Hoyos said that, although Mauritius had made significant positive strides in human rights legislation, some concerns remained.

Because of the capital utilization effect, the capital labor ratio would not, in fact, decline, and hence there would be no significant effect on the marginal productivity of hours worked.

In these countries, there is therefore no reason to think that fiscal consolidation would have a strong positive effect on confidence.

To be sure, if tax rates were decreased permanently this year, there would initially be a strongly positive effect on labor supplied.

Educational voucher programs, for example, took a knock when careful analysis of a Chilean program found no positive effect on students performance.

In short, the US stimulus effects on spending have probably been positive but small, and without a decisive effect on the economy.

This variant has a triple positive effect, on the number of unrepresented Member States, Member States within range and overrepresented Member States.

That will have a very significant effect in terms of reducing the current account surplus, which reflects net national savings.

A similarly significant test is the effect of world wars whereas world wars have historically had the most significant effects on treaties, humanitarian law continued to operate in the First World War.

The addition of permanent members would also have significant and adverse indirect consequences through what is known as the cascade effect.

Will the export profile of African countries exporting to China and India have a significant positive impact on the poor in Africa?

Studies have consistently shown that holding all else equal, subjects will predict positive outcomes to be more likely than negative outcomes (see valence effect).