However, many analysts believe a fall in the UK's rating would have little effect.
Even a massive markdown of value would have little effect on the financial efficiency ratios of Operation Compassion.
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Mr. Lindsay suggested that, going forward, monetary policy and intervention by the Federal Reserve would likely have little effect.
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But child advocates say the campaigns will have little effect unless the country actually punishes pedophiles who are caught.
European households hold less of their wealth in shares, so a stockmarket crash will have little effect on spending.
However, a few hundred peacekeepers in a single province will have little effect.
The key conclusion of this theory is that transitory, short-term changes in income have little effect on consumer spending behavior.
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Separately they have little effect, but together they prevent hep-C from spreading by causing it to make defective virus cells.
But since blanket grade inflation rather than a shift to easier ones is the main force at work, this would have little effect.
Last year's rise in import duty only had a temporary impact on demand, and some analysts said the latest move would have little effect.
Mr Freeman finds that, in practice, employment-protection laws appear to have little effect on the overall level (as opposed to the composition) of employment.
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Though the customs have indicative limits, these are so generous (for example 90 litres of wine) and so laxly implemented that they have little effect.
If changes in the federal-funds rate do not feed through into market rates, the dollar or share prices, they will have little effect upon the economy.
Interest rates on both government bonds and mortgages remain near record lows, so aiming to bring them down further will have little effect on the real economy.
But the Democratic leadership wants to keep the ban in place, arguing that more offshore drilling will have little effect on prices and could threaten the environment.
There is, of course, the question of how much this matters, for most mutations have little effect and a rare few, the stuff of evolution, are actually beneficial.
It will also have little effect on the velocity of money, which should actually increase even more as the increase in interest rates fuels even more inflation angst.
Those who oppose school vouchers and school choice in general tend to cite lack of positive results of voucherization in Chile as evidence that it will have little effect.
The home crowd ramped up the noise level to try to spur Blues on but it seemed to have little effect as their efforts were not reciprocated by the team.
Despite signs the ratio is moderating, the bright side is that market multiples are so low right now that further signs of moderation may have little effect on market returns.
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That means that even the most strenuous international diplomacy might influence North Korean behavior only on the margins and will have little effect on how this situation ultimately plays out.
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The short version is that the researchers used data from Denmark (where much better date is available) to provide evidence that tax subsidies have little effect on overall savings rates.
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But Western leaders know that their measures may have little effect unless they can persuade Myanmar's Asian neighbours, who are its main trading partners and arms suppliers, to join them.
Congress on Monday directed Bush to stop filling the government's emergency oil supply for six months to try to bring prices down, a move Bush has argued would have little effect.
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Despite these high-profile incidents, there are reports that Afweyne has not been directly involved in piracy since 2009, and so his retirement will have little effect on the current trajectory of piracy.
But some Scouts and Scout parents say that passing the decision to the local level will have little effect on the ground, because many troops have been ignoring the national policy anyway.
Some Japanese bureaucrats think that reforming the financial sector will have little effect on the real economy, and that many of its features, such as high investment and stable employment, will remain the same.
They also say that the 11 September attacks have pointed up the fragility of demand for air travel, though for the DGAC this is no more than a temporary blip that will have little effect on its long-term forecasts.
He said his own initial review of the list released Friday showed that many of the towers that will close around the clock are at airports with few or no scheduled passenger flights, indicating that Friday's decision would likely have little effect on airline service.
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