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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

IRI presented itself as an institution investing in the country and hoping to have made an impact (among other international institutions working in the country).

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

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.

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

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.

Crop diversity can also deliver important ecosystem benefits. Varieties that are tolerant to drought and flood can not only increase productivity, but also can prevent soil erosion and desertification.

Crop diversity can also deliver important ecosystem benefits.

In the private sector, the ability to collect information about teacher student interaction, and interaction between students and learning systems, can have a profound impact.

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.

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

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.

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.

Coffee may have a bad effect on the stomach.

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

So tempers are rising over something which, if and when it happens in the distant future, may or may not have much impact.

This can be politically and socially extremely destabilizing.

The second paradox is that monetary expansion may be largely ineffective in the country that undertakes it, but can generate large negative externalities on others.

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.

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

Even as a conjuring trick, the Charter could be influential.

The power of the stars came before the White House.

Stress can have an enormous negative impact on your health.

Moreover, when a crisis is winding down and there are openings for moderating influences, outside intervention can prove instrumental in enforcing peace and bringing warring factions to the negotiating table.

Even setting aside the question of whether more is always better, what can the Juncker plan do to have a positive short run impact on aggregate investment?

What are being sold as free trade agreements include IP provisions that could stifle access to affordable medicines, with a potentially significant impact on economic growth and development.

That may be enough to influence some governments, but the Burmese junta recently expelled the UN s representative after he warned of a deteriorating humanitarian situation.

The whole process showed again how big the influence of Kiva can be.

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

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.

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.