But their pernicious impact is much more significant than that.
While the number of courses has quietly tripled in the last decade to over 600, golf is still very much a minority sport and even though significant growth is expected with the expansion of a middle class predicted to have doubled its 2010 level of 52 million by 2015, the sport is still eye-wateringly expensive.
In symmetry that seems almost too perfect, much as Syria is a significant consumer of Russian weapons and hosts a Russian naval base, Bahrain is a significant consumer of American weapons and hosts an American naval base.
Ed Balls will promise that, as chancellor, he'd have "tough fiscal rules" but he won't say what they'd be (much more significant is his concession that they would be judged independently and not by him as they were when he was last in the Treasury).
He is obviously a lot more high profile and could be more significant because so much of his work is international and he's paid by foreign entities to do the work he has, including just a few days ago, getting a ton of money to speak in (unintelligible).
"Although the total amount the city council contributes to the arts sector is significant, it is much smaller to individual bodies - between 2.5% and 15% of the amount that they receive, " a statement said.
In fact we are seeing a new financial channel emerging, well in advance of the provisions of the JOBS Act, that could be much more significant than crowdfunding is currently given credit for.
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But would you consider that the far more significant effect is likely to be much less complicated.
On the basis of cost and capacity, solar power (about 0.01% of electricity), is an even much less likely contender for a significant market share.
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Dr Brahnam has also found that the appearance of the chatbot's on-screen persona, or avatar, has a significant impact on how much abuse is levelled at it.
The judge acknowledged the impact of obesity on the city's residents, and noted that those bringing suit likewise didn't dispute obesity is a significant health issue, but questioned how much sugary drinks can be blamed for it.
Since the economic crisis began, pretty much every significant foreign power in the world is worse off.
That's significant because analyzing or manipulating data in memory is much faster than retrieving it from a hard disk.
The Atlantic hurricane season is approaching, significant since the U.S. receives much oil from the Gulf of Mexico and oil and refined product from the Caribbean and Latin America.
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While much of this work should continue, a significant fraction is spent on activities simply to compensate for the fact that we are not conducting nuclear tests.
The memo says the grant program "has been much more effective" and is "likely to have a more significant impact on renewable energy investment" than the loan guarantees.
This lack of diversity of opinion is a shame and, I believe, is a significant factor in explaining why the agency has lost so much of the credibility it once enjoyed.
There is still much to be done, but what has happened today marks a significant step forward, toward a food system that puts the health of our children first.
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Hemingway is by no means a significant settlement and the fine and suspension are pretty much in line with precedent.
Battery technology is still very much in flux, and widespread usage of electric vehicles will require significant investments for charging infrastructure.
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Nevertheless, the testing showed that a standard lithium laptop battery, which is much smaller than the models on the Dreamliner, "could pose a significant smoke hazard" in the cockpit, the report said.
But, Nul said, the cost of this intervention is lower than the cost of patients being hospitalized, a significant point because much of the cost associated with congestive heart failure stems from patients needing to be hospitalized after they suffer setbacks.
It is significant, however, that the point of these demands was not so much to attain better government, but rather to strengthen Syrian society the better to resist American hegemony.
Simmons said he doesn't know of any other major airports in the northeast that have signed significant deals, and much of the gas-rich Marcellus Shale is far from major population centers.
According to Gilder, a 2004 article in the International Journal of Climatology says that all three of the major East African glaciers have seen significant retreat since the late 1800s, which is long before there was much CO2 around.
Each come at the subject from a slightly different direction, but they end up in a similar place, which is that even if we don't know exactly how much spare capacity the UK has, we can be confident that it is very significant, and confident that it is not going to stick around forever.
But the federal government pays for much of it, and so gets a significant say in how the money is spent.
But over the last 12 months it's been much nearer 20%, which, in such a short time, is quite a significant change.
The justification for paying such a significant premium is the idea that the acquiring firm will be able to get much more value out of the company than the seller does.
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This approach is said to offer a significant performance boost to a HDD only computer and at a much lower cost for a given storage capacity than a SSD only computer.
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