The Great Depression made not a dent in this exponential progression.

It won't make a dent. There is nobody at the reception desk.

Now, even by the police's admission, this makes not a dent in the profits, really, of the major exporters.

All of the achievements to date in this domain constitute only a small dent in the huge task that needs to be accomplished.

There's another one, equally important, about how that very same Mother Nature is so nurturing and so resilient that we can never make a dent in her abundance.

All these factors contribute to sustained productivity improvements, which alone can make a dent on poverty and contribute to an increase in the living standards in poor countries.

Don t the farm subsidies and other forms of support in the United States and European Union undercut the livelihood of millions of poor farmers? Wouldn t phasing them out make a big dent in world poverty?

NEW YORK Excitement about electric cars abounds nowadays, but consider the number of existing gasoline powered cars about 850 million. It would take years of new car sales to make a dent in that number.

In their efforts to reduce the impacts of these ERW the Coalition Munitions Clearance program continues to undertake very significant reduction and disposal efforts which are making a substantial dent in the numbers of ERW present.

Meanwhile, we've got two trillion dollars at a minimum, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers that we need to expend to even make a dent in the infrastructure, which is currently rated at a D minus.

With an unemployment rate of 25.3 and youth unemployment running at 53.9 the situation appears grim. Making matters worse, despite considerable gains in the last quarter of 2013, employment growth is far too weak to make a significant dent in joblessness.

As Kelleher points out, the United States has more than 10 million homes under water (the outstanding mortgage exceeds the house s value). Twenty billion dollars doesn t make a dent in that one million homes at 20,000 loan forgiveness is it.

Others, who see a substantially undervalued renminbi as a significant factor in US unemployment, will be disappointed by gradual adjustment. They would have preferred a sharp revaluation of perhaps 20 in order to make a noticeable dent in the US unemployment rate.

The outcome of the vote attests to the ineffectiveness of Turkey s parliamentary opposition, which once again failed to make a dent in the AKP s popularity, almost as if they had set out to disprove the theory that electorates simply tire of long serving governments.

Quite often the consultation processes that were initiated through the poverty reduction strategy papers initiatives have been regarded as opportunistic and ad hoc, resulting in implementation that does not make much of a dent in existing structures and in processes that are inimical to pro poor growth.

And I think, you know, that's a great name for boats that think that they're going to do anything to make a dent in this by dragging a boom between them when there are literally hundreds of thousands of square miles in the Gulf right now with oil at the surface.

To be sure, such measures will make only a dent in inequality, albeit an important and visible one. In order to deepen their impact, a more comprehensive macroeconomic policy stance is needed, with the explicit goal of reinvigorating and redesigning structural reform efforts, boosting aggregate demand, and eliminating debt overhangs.

The UK example is important but, given the scope and scale of the challenges, the proposal is a relatively modest one. The program may stimulate some productive credit intermediation, but it will not make a significant dent in what will remain one of the major obstacles to robust economic recovery.

The biggest factor is the massive cost and the tiny reward. Reducing emissions is the only response to climate change that environmental campaigners talk about, despite the fact that repeated attempts to do so in Rio in 1992 and in Kyoto in 1997 failed to make a dent in emission levels.

If we continue implementing policies to reduce emissions in the short term without any focus on developing the technology to achieve this, there is only one possible outcome virtually no climate impact, but a significant dent in global economic growth, with more people in poverty, and the planet in a worse place than it could be.

Although a growing number of countries have achieved an economic growth rate of over 5 per cent per annum in the past five years, such progress has tended to be rather episodic and, in any case, well below the 7 per cent growth rate generally considered to be necessary to begin making a dent on poverty in the region.

Meanwhile, acreage used for poppy and marijuana production has risen, according to the US government, to 6,900 and 8,900 hectares, respectively. Restrictions on the transshipment of cocaine from South America to the US have made only a dent in street prices, which spiked in 2008 but have stabilized in 2009 at levels well below their historical highs in the 1990 s.

The so called sequester (the across the board spending cuts scheduled to begin in March), would slash another 100 billion this year and 1.2 trillion over the next decade. Although it could stabilize the debt GDP ratio, the sequester would be a mistake it fails to distinguish among spending priorities, would undermine essential programs, and would mean another significant dent in growth this year.

Retaining them at home with high salaries is a possibility but, when economic returns and social possibilities abroad are profoundly greater, it is difficult to imagine that much of a dent can be made through this mechanism besides, enormous salaries create problems of horizontal equity in society and can also trigger a race to increase salaries all around, a move that cannot be afforded in poor societies.

LONDON Two hundred years have passed since the battle of Waterloo, where Napoleon s calamitous defeat made such a huge dent in his country s self image that General Charles de Gaulle, in his history of the French army, simply omitted it. Nonetheless, Napoleon, like de Gaulle, would both easily make it onto any list of history s great leaders assuming, of course, that one considers greatness to be an individual trait.

But it is also striking that despite the weak economy growth will barely average 1.5 during Rousseff s first term, and the economy is now in a technical recession, having contracted in two consecutive quarters Dilma and the PT managed to retain the support of Brazil s tens of millions of poor and excluded citizens. This is partly because the recession has not made a big dent in employment, which means that many households have yet to feel the impact.