It seems to have little effect on the tree.

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Taxes generally have little redistributive effect, because most countries rely heavily on indirect taxes.

There is much talk about it in the European Union, but little practical effect.

Without progress in this area, improvements in the Iraqi police will have little effect.

Much of what is enacted as stimulus has little immediate effect on job creation, but does have an adverse long term effect on government finances.

Clearly, however, such processes can have little effect if political spending is not transparent to public investors.

Whether or not such an expectation is truthful or not, has little or no effect on the outcome.

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

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

Yet this is likely to have little or no effect on Sharon's intention to carry through with the plan.

A general rise in global demand will simply spill over into higher commodity prices, with little helpful effect on consumption.

As a result, politicians expect that their decisions on investor protection will have little direct effect on citizens voting decisions.

However, studies have shown that very weak impairment of IGF 1 action can increase animal lifespan with little effect on body size.)

A 2007 study found that the earlier start to DST that year had little or no effect on electricity consumption in California.

Treatment First degree hypospadias are primarily a cosmetic defect and have little effect on function except for direction of the urinary stream.

Minor genetic and epigenetic changes with little or no effect on morphology or anatomy may produce large changes in the chemical phenotype.

We could probably calculate the speed that the satellite is traveling, if we do a little basic math here using the Doppler effect.

But that has little effect on those who are not interested in whether they are wrong and are already seeking to punish you.

They are like those a little before them they tasted the ill effect of their affair , and theirs shall be a torment afflictive .

They are like those a little before them they tasted the ill effect of their affair , and theirs shall be a torment afflictive .

Obama s proposals to boost job creation are convincing, whereas Romney s proposals would have little or no effect and some could even make matters worse.

Set at a low enough level say, 0.25 such a tax would have little adverse effect on the global economy while raising considerable revenue.

Obama s proposals to boost job creation are convincing, whereas Romney s proposals would have little or no effect and some could even make matters worse.

Ironically, the question of whether the effect of armed conflict is invokable or automatic is one that has generated surprisingly little discussion among commentators.

With regard to post war humanitarian demining, the quantity of metallic material in MOTAPM has little substantive effect on reducing the difficulty of demining operations.

Unless the basic conditions for doing business in Russia improve substantially, and until the Russian state starts to modernize itself, technology transfers will have little effect.

While foreign support groups and outside pressure have positive impact, for the gay Iraqi living in fear, these groups have little effect on their daily struggle.

For that reason, she had been surprised to find that its report had so little information on the effect of poverty on women, particularly rural women.

Still, some discussants contended that these open meetings tended to come late in the decision making process and had little effect on the drafting of resolutions.

But, as direct tax concessions have little or no effect in diverting international investment, let alone in attracting such flows, they constitute an unnecessary loss of revenue.

Therefore, their undue restriction by the State may entail even greater animosity against it and have as well little effect in combating threats to its national security.

The negative effect of the US financial setbacks on Indian stock markets, therefore, made little sense, since they bore no relation to the real value of Indian companies.

Indeed, most of the stimulus money will be spent after the recession appears to have ended, and the evidence is that so far it has had little effect.

Now I think a little bit like the IKEA effect, by getting people to work harder, they actually got them to love what they're doing to a higher degree.

A strike by the baggage handlers from the airline Aerolineas Argentinas caused a ripple effect and stranded hundreds of tourists, who received very little explanations and assistance from staff.

Though there is little evidence of the importance of small changes in real interest rates, the effect of even mild deflation on real debt, year after year, can be significant.

Criticism There is research supporting the idea that homework is of little educational value, and that for young children (i.e., 14 and under) it may have a negative effect on learning.

Given weak demand in slow growing advanced economies, rising commodity prices may lead only to a small first round effect on headline inflation there, with little second round impact on core inflation.

No Effect

Substitution effect

On the micro side, too little public investment means poor infrastructure and high export costs. Brazil has none of neighboring Argentina s hefty export taxes, but its heavy transport costs have the same effect.

Those of us who supported this policy generally knew that history and economic theory implied that such one time fiscal transfers have little effect, but we thought that this time might be different.

Arab members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries called for an embargo at the time of the 1967 war, but it had little effect because the US was then largely self sufficient.

If capital controls can be easily evaded say, by manipulating the timing of transactions or through mis invoicing of trade flows then there will be little effect on the actual volume of capital inflows.