So the questions that dominate national campaigns have little impact on European elections.

Rubber has been produced in Samoa for many years, but its export value has little impact on the economy.

It's a trifling incident.

President Jiang and China's rulers have had very little, if anything, to do with any of these decisions.

Entanglement probably has little effect on a state like North Korea, which is weakly linked to the global economy.

Japan, the country that accepts very few refugees.

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Climate models uniformly show that that for all the economic havoc that such carbon cuts would likely wreak, they would have a negligible impact on global temperatures.

Recently, a small event caused a major stir in Russian politics.

An undeniable impact

But Europeans must admit that these individuals represent a small minority.

Two generations ago, only a small minority of the daughters of the elite received a university education.

These chased away even the tiny levels of foreign investment that had come to Haiti.

Astonishingly, Nancy Birdsall of the Center for Global Development, who favors such discrimination, even wrote cynically and approvingly that such a policy would have little impact on US textile producers.

Its effect is almost as important as that of smoking.

In 1977, many rose to oppose an end to food and other consumer subsidies in 1986, poorly paid security forces went on a rampage.

The numbers involved in those protests were miniscule compared to now.

They will lose influence.

Even a modest tax increase on the rich is unlikely to find support in American politics.

When the watchers have only commercial motives, such spam feels like a minor violation.

Hollywood is that powerful.

The Rise of the Beijing Consensus

Trade unions were given more clout.

She has tremendous influence.

A positive effect on wages

Influencing the online conversation

What impact has it had?

Tom is a bad influence.

Given its foreign policy weakness, Europe can have only a minor impact on the wars and conflicts ravaging Africa and the Middle East (though its influence, however small, should be used and developed).

I warned that the upturn would be much more tepid than expected unlike previous business cycles, the recession that began at the end of 2007 was not caused by high interest rates, so lowering rates would have little impact.

Every small obstacle, every slight uphill, would cause these fellows to stop in their tracks and give up.

Huge investments have strengthened the People s Armed Police (PAP), a large anti riot paramilitary force whose specialty is the quick suppression of anti government protests by disgruntled industrial workers, peasants, and urban residents. Frequent deployment of the PAP is a major reason why the tens of thousands of collective protests that occur each year (74,000 in 2004 and 86,000 in 2005) have had a negligible impact on China s overall stability.

Frequent deployment of the PAP is a major reason why the tens of thousands of collective protests that occur each year (74,000 in 2004 and 86,000 in 2005) have had a negligible impact on China s overall stability.

Barack Obama and American Power

The psychological impact of negative TV news bulletins

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.

His influence is still potent.

Mary succumbed to Tom's influence.

But we had nothing to do with that.

US influence in Burma is unlikely to outweigh that of increasingly powerful Asian neighbors.

Once upon a time, according to mythology at least, America had little downward mobility. On the contrary, before the Civil War you could start out splitting rails, light out for the Western Territory, make a success of yourself on the frontier, and wind up as President if you were named Abraham Lincoln.

Indeed, demographers predict that in 2050 non Hispanic whites will be only a slim majority of US residents.

A symbolic cut or embargo, while possible, would have little impact on world oil markets.