Sentence examples for a ratchet effect from inspiring English sources

This creates a ratchet effect.

Knowledge accumulates: a ratchet effect is produced.

But with carbon dioxide there is a ratchet effect.

They have been driven by a ratchet effect.

This sets up a ratchet effect each year and means that pay almost never goes down.

It's had a ratchet effect in terms of people working as hard as they can to lift the team".

The increases were also coupled with increases in the pension supplements and base salaries, which will have a ratcheting effect on overall pay levels in future years," said Ashley Hamilton, corporate governance manager at RLAM.

"Through each boom cycle, the price levels relative to income at the end of the cycle will be higher than at the beginning, so you get a ratcheting effect of unaffordability".

As such, there can be something of a ratcheting effect in which beneficial mutations arise and become fixed by selection, only to be supplemented later by more beneficial mutations which, in turn, become fixed.

The mutant allele and the infection finally go to fixation because of a ratcheting effect: all infected females that are homozygous for the fertilization mutation will no longer mate and their female offspring will remain homozygous and infected, yet they will produce male offspring that carries the mutation.

Ironically, many say that increasing disclosure over pay brought in by successive governments after union and shareholder lobbying has led to a ratchet-effect upwards as executives are repeatedly compared with their peers.