These comparisons are the more significant, argue the Lib Dems, because they are the first that can be made without having to take into account the likely, one-off, helpful effect of last summer's Olympics and Paralympics visitors.
The value was significant, arguing for true colocalization instead of a fortuitous superposition of randomly distributed fluorophores (Fig. S5 and Supporting Information S1).
Although telomerase activity and telomere length varied in HPC particularly from older donors, an age-dependent decline was not significant arguing against telomere exhaustion as being causal for the aging phenotype.
If they react abruptly to falling sales by building less, the housing market may be "on the verge of a significant correction", argues Ian Shepherdson of Pantheon Macroeconomics.
Although legalising all drugs wouldn't completely remove criminality in the world it should make a significant difference, argues Annie Machon, former British intelligence officer and European director of Leap, a global group of former and current police and government officials who oppose the "war on drugs".
"Any regression study will be primarily a comparison of Texas with everywhere else," writes Ted Goertzel in Skeptical Enquirer magazine.The chance of being executed in America is so remote that it cannot plausibly be a significant deterrent, argues Steven Levitt, of the University of Chicago.
"Quantifying such costs is highly problematic, since valuations are highly subjective, but nevertheless the impact is likely to be significant," it argues.
But economists and other proponents of significant changes argue that official pension numbers are fundamentally inaccurate.
More significant, they argued, were strategy discussions involving MPs from all parties "caught between their own views and those expressed at the ballot box" in the referendum.
Mr. Bush's aides said they did not believe Mr. Edwards would make a significant difference, arguing that voters end up making their decisions in presidential elections based on the top of the ticket.
