How the West responds could very well influence the outcome.

Lack of sleep can have an enormous negative impact on a student's grades.

This kind of citizens activism initiated by bloggers can actually make a difference.

Would the threat of a boycott really prove more successful vis à vis Darfur?

When we want to influence somebody, we've got to know what already influences them.

How might such a world affect prospects for peace and democracy in the Middle East?

Indeed, parents cannot really influence how schools shape their children.

China played little part in the global derivatives markets, and does not have much toxic securities to clean up or banks to save in order to unfreeze credit flows.

What impact on the average Russian, on public opinion, and the situation in the prison colonies can be made by raising this juxtaposition?

The Bank estimates it will likely take four years to fully feed through to prices and the economy.

Q Do you think that the fact the Putin is almost ignoring Internet might have any influence on his success?

Now that I have returned I am realizing the impact of the situation on me, and that you can come up with an idea and follow through and have a positive impact on people.

Only a common European position Britain included has any chance of influencing the Bush administration.

Such a massive foreign influx into so hermetic a country could not but have a significant domestic impact.

That in itself may have a depressing effect on the economy, partly offsetting the monetary stimulus.

Hani Mohammed ( palestinoo7) urges Egyptians to put pressure on the government to bring back home those who are still trapped at the Ras Jedir crossing point

Egypt s transition from populist economic policies to anti American populism exemplifies the impact that political uncertainty can have on economic developments.

The resulting unusual economic environment of falling prices and wages can also have a damaging psychological impact on households and businesses.

And, as experience has shown, Germany and France can have a major impact when they work together.

But disorderly appreciation may seriously affect China s economic growth by disrupting its export industries, which would generate major adverse effects on all of East Asia.

Laws against child pornography in other countries may also have the effect of prohibiting games that permit virtual sex with virtual children.

And you can have more impact on the environment just getting your neighborhood to change these things than by changing your vehicle. Thank you very much.

Given the positive impact that such a charismatic and forward thinking pope can have on the world, we should all share that hope.

Additionally, thanks to these new tools, gripping images can be brought to light that will have a greater impact on people and draw them in.

Citizens are struggling to see how these shutdowns might have a positive impact on public safety, but the pitfalls of this strategy seem self evident.

Despite of state funded national programs and internationally funded civil society initiatives, attention to the issue has not been effective enough to make a lasting impact on women's lives.

Like Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, the Islamic State appears to understand the impact that lurid images of violence can have on the public imagination.

This website is probably the most promising project of those presented on BarCamp Ideas Market and might have a big social impact in Kazakhstan.

Nevertheless, there are ways to pressure Zenawi

A positive effect on wages

Influencing the online conversation

If properly targeted and conditioned on reforms, international aid can make a positive difference.

Forcing Internet search engines to censor results based on this growing list of banned websites could have a significant impact on Russians' access to alternative sources of news and opinion.

The law now affects only the Shia minority, but threatens to affect pending legislation that could restrict the rights of non Shia women as well.

Although China may not like it, the international trading system may provide more leverage than any other post Kyoto mechanism over developing countries environmental policies.

In addition, the absence of an IMF insurance facility with acceptable terms has been a major gap in the global financial architecture, especially for the more dynamic emerging market economies.

First and foremost, our financing packages should be large enough relative to the size of the problem to make a difference.

Brrr'. Positive representations of queer people in media can have a huge impact on society, and the media have the opportunity and responsibility to shape culture.

The impact in the media was also quite impressive.

The influence of TV on society is great.

The impact of science on society is great.

But we had nothing to do with that.

When the permit prices become large enough to have a significant effect on CO2 emissions, there will be political pressure to introduce tariffs on imports that offset the advantage of countries with low permit prices. Such offsetting tariffs would have to differ among products (being higher on more CO2 intensive products) and among countries (being higher for countries with low permit prices).

When the permit prices become large enough to have a significant effect on CO2 emissions, there will be political pressure to introduce tariffs on imports that offset the advantage of countries with low permit prices.

Yet only a few decades ago, some Western professors forbade their students even to make reference to papers by Japanese colleagues! How could a cultural outlook that the West treated with such raw condescension even in 1985 simultaneously shape Western science so profoundly?