But they will take years to make much difference to the price at the pump.
Yet collective-action clauses will not make much difference to the way debt defaults are actually handled.
But he doesn't expect the papers to generate enough profits to make much difference to Berkshire.
Even if it were passed, it would not make much difference to other intractable policy problems.
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Mr Eldergill said the proposed law change would not make much difference to the situation on the ground.
In that sense, identifying the hacker(s) wouldn't make much difference to the world.
If so, it has yet to make much difference to living standards.
They also argue, rightly, that the volumes of oil involved would probably be too small, and too expensive to extract, to make much difference to the price.
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It might not make much difference to the long-haul passengers who are riding between Chicago and California and don't much care where the train stops along the way.
And by focusing its campaign on the most dangerous proliferators and nuclear terrorism, it raises an awkward question: will minutely choreographed multilateralism make much difference to the hardest cases?
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The BBC's Jonah Fisher in South Africa says the announcement is a sign of deal under intense stress - but in itself it may not make much difference to the operation of Zimbabwe's government.
Indeed, says Stephen Bond of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, an economic research group, it is far from clear that Mr Brown's package will make much difference to investment or productivity, even though the capital gains tax reform is likely to encourage more new firms to be formed.
The fact that it is a largely cosmetic exercise is borne out by the fact that, in trying to claim that all members of the new House will be equal, the report says that, in effect, the number of elected members is so small that they will not make much difference to outcomes.
You would have to spend a lot of time in hospital waiting rooms for the contents of the vending machines to make much of a difference to your weight.
But, in contrast to the Microsoft suit, the result is unlikely to make much difference, at least to consumers.
Likewise, a strategy to grow by small acquisitions abroad won't make much of a difference to overall returns, Brown wrote in his letter to the board.
None of this may make much of a difference to you though.
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This experience led me to wonder how much difference it would make to energy use more generally if we all had more day-to-day, real time knowledge about how much energy we consume as we go about household activities.
Nor would it make much difference were Social Security to be invested in other assets such as equities, investment-grade bonds and property.
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If you are someone who thinks that any ring-fence, by its nature, is going to be ineffective, or that the government has given the banks too much leeway in deciding where it should be drawn, then "electrifying" is not going to make much difference either way.
Others, such as spending lots more, are unlikely to make much difference.
Government officials said they had been forced to take the measures after previous drives to save energy had failed to make much difference.
Fiat may have thrown Chrysler a lifeline, but the American firm may be too far gone, and the storm too fierce for it to make much difference.
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But broadband has been slow to take off for a variety of reasons, so it would be foolish to expect it to make much difference any time soon.
Undirected prayer, then, did not seem to make much difference.
The point is that until Apple comes up with new products more suitable for emerging markets, no amount of executive shuffling at Apple Stores is going to make much difference.
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Carwyn (is) saying, 'look, that's not our agenda, we're going to try to make as much of a difference as we can and I think they're totally right to do it and I'm very proud of what they're doing.
Much remains to be done if we are to make a difference to the lives of millions of people.
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