"More likely is the possibility that Treasury might have to offer higher interest rates on this rolled-over debt, a not insubstantial concern: A one-percentage-point increase in interest rates could cost taxpayers more than $100 billion per year". This is, he says, an acceptable price to pay for forcing the Obama administration to cut spending.
Its over-rehearsed origin story proves as insubstantial as any other Turtle spin, yet Bay's CV arguably lists worse crimes.
What's worse, exercising one's sense of "power" as a consumer in order to manipulate a company (and public perception) over such a marginal and insubstantial fight is akin to fencing with windmills.
Blood loss of 5 ml/day would represent almost 2 l if continued over a year, a not insubstantial loss, which might be a consequence of NSAID use in up to one in 20 users.
All these numbers, Mr. Curtin, owed their longevity to "a vast inertia, as historians have copied over and over again the flimsy results of insubstantial guesswork".
The gold wrapping is not even made of foil, there's a distinctly soft and insubstantial centre and the whole thing is presided over by an ageing ambassadorial figure who some suggest is spoiling everything.
Unfortunately for the Knicks' future, Stoudemire's contract is literally guaranteed to be neither brief nor insubstantial, he's owed $45.1 million over the next two seasons.
Over half of their housing was of insubstantial construction, with common toilet facilities.
However, even without phospho‐enrichment, we still detect here over 2000 phosphorylation sites, which is not insubstantial given that recent phospho‐enrichment studies typically report ∼10,000 phosphorylation sites.
Michôd's meshing of the voice-over with the onscreen character is admirably deft but ultimately insubstantial, offering too little of the character behind that voice of Sean's own character, interests, and motives and none of the passion and discernment behind the report.
