Marks & Spencer suffered a rebuke from its shareholders today over the £15m "golden hello" handed to new chief executive Marc Bolland, but it was not substantial enough to force a rethink of the company's executive pay policy.
That result, reflected in other polls, "suggests that even if there is a hidden bias that people are unwilling to admit to pollsters, it is not substantial enough to make a difference," said John C. Green, director of the Ray Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron.
It has been suggested that the moat could have been drained in a day because the embankment surrounding it was not substantial, and that as such it did not pose a serious obstacle to an attacker.
While it seems that 'ghosts' may have a contribution to non-response, it is not substantial in the present study.
We made this change to improve clarity, but concluded that it is not substantial enough to necessitate additional validation at this time.
Although density-mediated compensation neutralized the bulk of the atrazine-related carryover effect, it was not substantial enough to fully counteract the mortality associated with both the exposure and carryover effects.
"It wasn't substantial enough," Mr. Marcic said.
If it isn't substantial enough, then it suffers refutation by Gettier cases, in which case fails.
That it wasn't substantial enough?
