Their most effective contribution to global well-being would be to simply not exist.
By the end of the 1990s, "Agenda 21" was born (pdf), and Olympic bigwigs were declaring the games should be "an effective contribution to sustainable development" (pdf).
When we asked ourselves what we thought our most effective contribution to change might be we realised that our structure was upside down".
At the party conference in 1995, Colling as chairman made a significantly effective contribution to the success of the Conference, although he was sceptical of New Labour.
John Curtin, the Environment Agency's executive director of flood risk management, said: "Natural flood risk management measures, when used alongside more traditional flood defences, can make an effective contribution to reducing flood risk, as demonstrated in Pickering.
The laws of war permit attacking a civilian object only when it is making an effective contribution to military action and a definite military advantage is gained by its destruction.
Our cavalier chancellor does not seem able to make the connection that, by preaching austerity around Europe, and making such a disastrously effective contribution to the G20's about-turn on expansionary policies in 2010, he has made a personal contribution to the climate in which our exports are held up by economic paralysis elsewhere.
Still, Ms. von Münchhausen said, while the €14 million that student fees brought to the university was a small part of the overall budget, it made a disproportionately effective contribution to improvements in teaching because — unlike additional money provided directly by the state — it was not tied directly to increasing the number of study spots.
The late Dr. Avik Chakravarty made a singularly effective contribution to the small-scale gap test.
Capacity of each generating unit is paid according to its effective contribution to overall system reliability.
The goal was to shed light on the program's effective contribution to improved HM risk management in the GHA.
