(Bicycle helmets, by contrast, are designed to withstand just one major, accidental impact).
Make an impact on just one person.
If I could make an impact on just one child, if I save at least one life, I'll have shown the world.
It is amazing how much impact just one person can have on the world.
The second is that carbon pollution is just one of the impacts of tar sands production.
With success against just one such disease, the impact on health "could be possibly transformational," said Dr. Patrick Vallance, head of drug discovery at GlaxoSmithKline.
To give just one example of the impact of this on individuals, a friend who suffers from bulimia so severe it has pretty much taken over every aspect of her life, and who also has a history of child sexual abuse, was referred to an eating disorders clinic for treatment 20 months ago.
Consider just one example of the impact of basic science research on our economy today: The National Research Council calculated the portion of revenue from 30 well-known computing firms whose technology could be traced back to research supported by government agencies.
Just one study investigated the impact of 'major' playground reconstruction on children's physical activity behaviour 16 and concluded that renovated schoolyards to promote physical activity may increase the number of children who are physically active and reduce sedentary behaviours.
"Intelligence played a critical role in the judgments in this case, more so than in a lot of previous problems, where it was just one of several factors impacting on policy," said Mr. Kerr, the former C.I.A. official heading the internal review.
