Some popular music lyrics can have political effects.

Of course, such considerations might have little influence on prices.

But linguistic skills, like gender, are refreshingly irrelevant at this moment.

It could be a story that is simply of wide interest to viewers and has little impact otherwise.

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

Offenders are rarely prosecuted for crimes against women, and any sentences handed down are light or of no consequence.

They might be excluded from participation in informal networks, or have limited influence in appropriating the accrued benefits of collective action.

Although the agreement is not a defense pact, its symbolism cannot be lost on China.

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

The workshop considered the impact of computer related crime on individual victims, in particular the impact of fraud and sexual exploitation.

But the passing of the old news model has also had a salutary effect.

So the challenge remains to devise a response that will gain widespread international backing and influence North Korean behavior and capabilities.

In addition, while the state owned companies Telecom, Autostrade, and Alitalia were subject to an extremely interventionist policy by Romano Prodi s outgoing government, they have little to show for it.

Limestone chips may be introduced into sites to create a neutralizing effect.

But monetary policy had little to do with it.

If they lose, a long string of bankruptcies can cut deeply into banking systems that had generated huge profits by lending to these same hedge funds.

It ensures that the court is not subject to undue influence or pressure.

Life in and with this city was as hypnotic as a drug.

And, if a shock can be said to be reassuring, this one certainly soothed Asian concerns about America s enduring commitment to regional security.

Consequently, although the current crisis is expected to have a relatively minor effect compared to past upheavals, the possibility of contagion from turbulence in the US cannot be disregarded.

Indeed, when ODA is not determined by geopolitics, it can have a strong positive effect on long term growth, essentially because it supports investment in infrastructure and human development.

This is a quote from Albert Einstein, who says, The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery.

Four, or even eight, more years of US policy à la Bush would inflict such damage on the substance of the transatlantic alliance as to threaten its very existence.

Steven Erra

To the surprise of many seasoned observers, foreign policy is having only a modest impact on voters.

It rejects evolutionary biology, which it views as a corrupting moral and social influence and threat to religious belief.

Thus, whatever immigration policy emerges in the US will have an enormous impact south of the Rio Grande well beyond Mexico. This will occur precisely at a time when Latin America is swerving left, with country after country drifting back to anti American, populist stances Venezuela in 1999, Bolivia last year, perhaps Mexico, Peru, and Nicaragua later this year.

(a) Proposals are of an exceptional nature

China s management of food and product safety issues will have a long term impact on trade relations, the sustainability of China s growth strategy, and its further integration into the global trading system.

The weakness of the current wage insurance proposal is that it pays benefits only for a limited period and relies for its long term effect on the retraining incentives that it creates.

In this regard, strategic communications and coordination are crucial for the coherence and success of such efforts.

This increase has no separate climate effect, since we ve already promised to cut emissions by 20 . However, it does manage to make a poor policy decision dramatically worse.

The advertisements are seldom educational.

Most snakebites, whether by a venomous snake or not, will have some type of local effect.

Some experts believe IS may overtake al Qaeda as the most influential extremist group in the world.

These approaches may initially have a high cost due to technological development and deployment and may also have a slower rate of environmental improvement.

Of course, such considerations might have little influence on prices. What was true for the alchemists of yore remains true today gold and reason are often difficult to reconcile.

(b) Support initiatives that demonstrate the relevance of SSC by undertaking practical, innovative activities that have a visible development impact and that can serve as models for replication, drawing on its experience with, for example, the development of NERICA

Any INGO in the business of giving advice must be scrupulous about being and being perceived as immune from influence by vested interests.

What's the effect of this? So, the story that most people know is the story of free or open source software.

Many of them have large pockets of poverty, and some are large economies with very significant neighbourhood effects.

But free trade is a two way street.

The Peacebuilding Commission should be advisory in nature.

If history is any guide, markets can be severely destabilized by one day drops, which make powerful stories that have more psychological salience to investors than much larger drops that occur over longer time intervals.

Good intentions count for little in life and for less in politics.