little or no

That they'd play little or no part instead of leading roles might have been a tad harder to predict.

and having little or no wind and a smooth sea, the sun shining upon it, the sight was, as I thought, the most delightful that ever I saw.

At the moment, it mostly buys grain and doles it out in areas where there is little or no food.

much of it is the result of our own thinking, but nearly all of it has been accepted with little or no examination or consideration.

To us the impersonality of electronic communication has little or no relation to the significance of the matter at hand.

You know, there was so much energy and sharing and inspiration and pure moments and quality times together on very little or no money.

Yet this seems to have sparked little or no self-reflection on their part, as befitting the committed ideologue.

Offering customers lengthy credit terms, with little or no interest, has proven to BE an effective means of generating sales revenue.

This kind of exchange involves little or no monetary assets (namely, monetary assets are referred to as a "boot" ).

Though earthquakes seem to strike with little or no warning, researchers have been searching for danger signs.

This way you can insert the data into a Web page, and dual-purpose it to be a syndication feed with little or no additional effort.

The US seems to be entering stagflation - inflation with little or no growth.

But for that kind of investment in binding with little or no investment company, they can only get a small increase in yield and price.

The fact that most election officials are unpaid volunteers, very often elderly and with little or no training, also caused difficulties.

Before that unjust Tribunal, there was little or no order of procedure, ensuring to any accused person any reasonable hearing.

However, in the case where these standards either do not exist, or have little or no adoption, alternatives must be sought.

All this can be done remotely and largely in an automated fashion, with little or no hands-on intervention required.

There was little or no infra-structural support for visual art in terms of education, opportunities for exhibition or critical engagement.

But incidents have usually been isolated, contained and showed little or no relationship to what was showing on-screen.

Over the next couple of days we fanned out across four more Scottish islands, a straggle of Gore-Tex meeting little or no resistance.

Until we arrive at answers to such questions, our life seems to hold little, or no meaning.

The unresolved pain remains stuck in a sort of holding tank, filling it up until there is little or no space left.

With little or no development personnel (fired), there was no overhead and all profit.

When the opposition and their cohorts are restrained, they will have little or no power left with which to hold up your evolution.

"But there are tens of thousands of chemicals on the market for which there has been little or no safety testing, " she said.

The point here is not the content, which requires little or no artistic judgment to generate, but the way it's presented.

Most nights her dad went back to work after dinner to meet with the poor people he was defending in court for little or no money.

Although fresh graduates have little or no job-related working experience, they are still likely to have much to offer employers.

But, as Mr. O'Kelly writes, the hurried executive finds little or no time to conduct this sort of analysis.

So, you might set your security settings for your Local intranet zone to a low level to allow downloading with little or no prompting.

The pressure on the analyst to increase productivity leaves little or no time for him to monitor the system.

It sleeps a great deal, rests on both legs-in contrast to a healthy (adult) bird and takes little or no nourishment.

However, as an investor, you often encounter companies with a supposedly hot product on the drawing board but with little or no sales.

In most cases, to determine the ROI of a marketing program is an expensive exercise with little or no value.

Reactive aggression is only desirable if it is based on the fighting aspect with little or no trace of flight instinct being present.

Even taking into account possible new discoveries of oil deposits, there may be little or no oil left by the end of this century.

It has always amazed me that in this most fundamental of all life skills, we've been given little or no training.

With little or no shelter from the winter cold in and around Stalingrad, German troops were further weakened by a lack of food and supplies.

Most if not all of these deployments bear little or no relationship to preserving the safety of the American people.

Nevertheless, an internal report concluded that there was "little or no protest" over the incident.

The ugly are those with a compelling story to tell, but little or no history of profitability.

Most licensed life insurance agents will be able to qualify to sell prepaid legal services with little or no additional licensing effort.

Correspondents say that means they often have little or no choice but to put up with violence and harassment.

The majority of a typical firm's patents are of little or no use to its core businesses.

As mentioned earlier in this guide, some of the pre-printed forms layout template is simple, with little or no color at all.

When a resource instance fails, other resource instances pick up the load with little or no changes in threshold levels.

During extended periods of little or no wastewater flow, clarifier effluent can be pumped back to the pretreatment tank for recirculation.

Your team members will have to agree on a date and time when little or no damage can come from having your site down for a short period.

Given that there can be little or no eradication in Taliban areas, those who live under government control feel unfairly penalised.

Mixing carbon with a synthetic sebum mixture had little or no effect on its removability with several fabric-detergent combinations.

Legislators who might otherwise gain little or no national distinction are able to do so within ALEC.

A key benefit of these adhesives is their ability to provide extremely strong and durable bonds with little or no surface preparation.

In addition, new applications that utilize JMS can be deployed with a little or no client-side configuration necessary.

Little or no knowledge of a holistic view of any given science is needed to construct such scattershot attacks.

Flexible in design, they come in a spectrum of colors and styles, can be easily repaired, and require little or no maintenance.

To try to mislead (opponents) In a card game by heavy bettIng on a poor hand or by little or no bettIng on a good one.

Race played little or no role in his decision, he said.

There was little or no consumer resistance to traditional advertising; it was welcomed into the household.

With all beings there must be much fortuitous destruction, which can have little or no influence on the course of natural selection.

The ultimate goal of an agile team is to make deployment seamless so that it has little or no impact on the working team.

When a device fails, other devices pick up the load with little or no interruption or changes in threshold levels.

Their hooves are small and extremely strong, with little or no feathering, and a sparse mane and tail, often with no forelock.

IDA was first set up in 1960 to provide interest-free credits and grants to countries with little or no capacity to borrow on their own.

It is called dry cleaning because the fluid contains little or no water and does not penetrate the fibers as water does.

It would be an isolated incident, with little or no damage done to the greater economy.

In children, danger signs include fast or difficult breathing, lack of alertness, difficulty in waking up, and little or no desire to play.

Pewter with little or no lead is of finer quality, and alloys that include antimony and Bismuth are more durable and shinier.

High-income taxpayers get the benefits, since low-income taxpayers own little or no housing and do not itemize deductions in any case.

Despite the rise in bankruptcy fees over the years, there was little or no public criticism or pushback until recently.

Most of that is likely to come in the form of restricted stock with little or no cash.

Take a winery tour. There's nothing like getting tipsy for little or no money while bonding over the tastes of various local wines.

Kingsmore says investigators are also looking at ways to make it available to the public for little or no cost.

Policy-free A user interface or programming system is policy-free if it imposes little or no policy.

Rich diets may be associated with a richer lifestyle that includes little or no exercise, for instance.

But Mr Bonnell said there was a chance that 2008 would see little or no growth in Chinese auto sales.

The president's approval rating continues to hover around 48% or so, showing little or no sign of a post-health bounce.

But a growing minority of loans look very different, with weak borrowers, adjustable rates and little, or no, cushion of home equity.

Such assistance may be important to the person involved, but it has little or no meaning for the broader public.

"The oil industry's cosy and sometimes corrupt relationship with government regulators meant little or no regulation at all. "

and components can be produced with dimensions that need little or no rectification to meet the dimensional tolerances.

Right wrap gap is too little or no gap, clutch is always in the half clutch, the result will cause state clutch skid.

Animal communication, again like the traveller's phrase book, has little or no grammar.

Trading partners should receive vulnerability and legitimate usage information in a timely manner with very little or no interruptions.

are ironic : the choice made little or no difference at all, the speaker's protestations to the contrary.

The animation library is available out of the box in most controls with little or no development work.

The heat treater claims to perform quality planning, but has little or no supporting documentation.

If little or no progress has happened on your project in the past 12 months, work with your Grant Coordinator to meet TRF requirements.

Similarly, turmoil in financial markets in recent months had little or no effect, with enthusiastic bidding at all levels.

Fathers provided little or no child care; their chief role at home was to administer discipline.

The research found 85% of those questioned thought there should be little or no coverage of the private lives of celebrities.

Native wildflower and grass meadows require no fertilizer, little or no supplemental water, and only annual mowing, once established.

Others are more hopeful: tumbling costs of wind and solar energy suggest it may soon be competitive with little or no subsidy.

Even with little or no money in their pockets - they STILL managed to have amazing success in their lives.

Sad to say, these facts make little or no impression on the flesh-eaters who seek refuge in the plant-killing argument.

Most Chinese graduate students come to the United States straight from college, with little or no work experience.

Remember when a trip to the supermarket was nothing more than a tedious chore requiring little or no specialized knowledge?

When a queue fails, other queues pick up the load with little or no change interruption.

Core competencies have little or no effect of the bottom line.

PC gaming has little or no place in the teenage market.

The latest data on Friday pointed to a sluggish recovery at best with little or no help to come from embattled consumers.

The latest data on Friday pointed to a sluggish recovery at best with little or no help to come from embattled consumers.

When a device fails, other devices pick up the load with little or no interruption.

Diesel fuel is less thick and usually can be burned in an engine with little or no tinkering.

We could find little or no material in books; we have had to hunt for actual specimens.

The only people to emerge with little or no credit from the occasion were the chaotic police, Mr Irving and Mr Griffin.

in rote learning, there is little or no integration of new knowledge with existing knowledge resulting in two negative consequences.

The lowest point of the brisket should be such that an average man's fist would fit under it with little or no overhead clearance.

However, simple search queries without complex joins that return results with little or no XML tags can be much faster in SQL.

There are hundreds of elections a year, but little or no supervision.

Yet in a growing number of scenarios, solar is becoming competitive with little or no subsidy.

Yet in a growing number of scenarios, solar is becoming competitive with little or no subsidy.

At best, there was very low-quality evidence of little or no difference in pain relief between the techniques.

Facing stiff Republican opposition, the administration will have little or no leeway for doing anything significant to boost the economy.

You're more likely to rely on the existing network and infrastructure and have little or no control over the networking decisions.

et in a growing number of scenarios, solar is becoming competitive with little or no subsidy.

These network cameras are small, reasonably priced and designed to be set up by those with little or no network experience.

Drink little or no alcohol on board the plane. Drink plenty of still mineral water and avoid overeating .

Freshfields learned of the cases, which have received little or no publicity, through discussions with Chinese law firms.

Many oils have little or no flavor to begin with, as they've been refined to remove almost everything except the oil molecules.

Some of these women had little or no involvement in the drug offense for which they are serving decades in federal prison.

At the time, Jackson had "little or no cash at all, from the documents we saw" , Mr O'Bryan said.

The authors take this as evidence that the output gap may have been only 2% in the first quarter, implying little or no threat of deflation.

They found the drugs had little or no effect on asthma flare-ups, ear infections or the likelihood of a youngster needing antibiotics.

A girl may not even know this has occurred, since there may be little or no blood or pain involved when this happens.

Overall, many mass-market car makers have been making little or no money in their European operations for years.

With little or no previous experience, it is no wonder that you start to fumble.

This is harmless stuff, but estate agents who lie and cheat more seriously have enjoyed years of little or no regulation.

Their "scoreboard" requires little or no interaction from the user other than to look and to wear an active badge.

Diesel derived from coffee is less thick and can usually be burned in an engine with little or no tinkering.

Pronunciation and grammar were emphasized, but there was little or no emphasis on vocabulary.

There is little or no need for an administrator or other application to compose and submit new message files by using the Replay directory.

Continuously Rotating Smooth-faced rolls are designed for use where little or no nonmagnetic material is contaminating the coolant.

Those with little or no coffee intake , however, are more likely to suffer from the condition.

The researchers claim ECS can more than halve the energy consumption of processors in data centres at "little or no operational cost" .

Regular cars can be retrofitted to become biofuel vehicles with little or no modifications.

It harbors incredible wildlife and numerous indigenous cultures that maintain little or no contact with the outside world.

But once the extra capital spending is taken into account there may be little or no gain in overall economic efficiency.

Plankton are small drifting organisms, plant or animal, that have very little or no locomotive ability.

Many routine tasks can be performed with distraction in the background with little or no adverse effect on output.

Unlike the USA government that has little or no control of it's destiny.

Consider securities backed by Alt-A mortgages, which were issued to borrowers with little or no documentation of their income.

Afterward, the men displayed little or no changes in their energy-regulating hormones or their appetites, much as in the other study.

By linear operation is meant the ability of an amplifier to amplify signals with little or no distortion.

And one suspects many economists will take issue with his statement that 'China's bond purchases make little or no difference' to U.

A young child often sees little or no connection between their action and an adult's hurtful reaction.

The results showed that the whiteness and intensity had little or no impact when the advanced treated wastewater recycling for washing.

In many cases, process descriptions had little or no relevance to the software development practitioner.

But the image of gamers as loners with little or no social skills is way off the mark, say researchers.

User Stories are requirements told from a customer perspective and contain little or no implementation details.

Cited most sources of information improperly and provided little or no supporting documentation to check accuracy.

feature received little or no emphasis in the country of birth of the Gothic style, in England it became the pivotal focus of the church.

On the most agile platforms, you can create workflows between and within applications with little or no additional software development.

After you develop procedures for use in one program, you can use them in other programs, often with little or no modification.

We need to accept that across much of the planet, waste with little or no treatment will be applied to agriculture for good reason.

Proponents of the anti-classical approach have little or no use for concepts like truth and justification.

The suite needs to be executable as needed, with little or no setup time required.

A minority of scholars believe that the gospel accounts of Jesus have little or no historical basis.

learn to like cereal or fruit with little or no sugar added. try to take coffee and tea without sugar or cream.

Of the young public questioned, 90 percent stood against drugs while nine in ten feel little or no pressure to take drugs when with friends.

Most operating systems include little or no encryption in key elements, which creates an inherent lack of security.

Beijing also wants to restrain state companies that have little or no expertise in real estate.

Serology is of little or no value in determining how well a flock was protected against IBD.

The most expensive, in-demand watches these days are solid black, ultrathin timepieces with little or no identifying brand markers.

Adding such entries can also help people who have little or no presence online, as that can be viewed with suspicion these days, she said.

Too much learning is done by rote and by taking in lectures and reading assignments with little or no discussion.

Albinism, a group of inherited disorders, results in little or no production of the pigment melanin.

Tidal power generators have little or no visual impact, they are silent, environmentally benign and will not harm marine life.

If short-term debt yields very little or no interest, then holding it generates the same return as ordinary cash or checking deposits.

the use of ancient-term business English-language messages to other commonly used little or no longer use the old-word.

Using a cleaning cartridge will have little or no effect in preventing the cleaning light from returning.

The pious well-to-do usually do little or no work during this period, and some businesses close for all or part of the day.

To expend effort but make little or no progress to achievement of a goal or an end.

Console applications are also very useful for utility programs that require little or no user interaction.

Some famous musicians have had little or no sight.

Sometimes they are application domain experts with little or no use for the technical skills needed for software development.

In a competitive market, there are many buyers and sellers, each of whom has little or no influence on the market price.

The demonstrators offered little or no resistance to the police.

Does anyone else find it odd that there is little or no discussion of the role of the clitoris in sex education in general?

Above all, a Labrador Retriever must be well balanced, enabling it to move in the show ring or work in the field with little or no effort.

The distribution of bonuses will be skewed towards top performers, leaving little or no money for those in the lower quartiles.

Your religious donations fund freeloaders who mooch off society but who generally provide little or no value in return.

Way down below, we have little or no conscious awareness of the Id, which influences all our decisions.

If Turtles were cutting their appetite for risk in year one, they left little or no cushion if their next year's performance bombed.

Under Lula, Brazil saw faster growth, impressive social progress but little or no reform of burdensome taxes and red tape.

My view, based on research with John C. Williams, is that this new facility had little or no effect on these interest-rate spreads.

develop quotations andes schedules for development programs with little or no assistance.

More than half of Socialist voters now have little or no confidence in him.

An example of a visually rich, entertainment-oriented site with little or no challenge involved.

It turns out those diplomas came from degree mills, which are bogus universities that confer degrees for little or no study.

reality taking a back seat to self-reinforcing collectively chanted mantras against which the facts make little or no impression.

Their extraordinary thermal quality limits product losses during extended periods of little or no gas use.

Uncomplicated technology, modular design easy installation and little or no calibration are keywords for ClampOn's instruments.

NET login controls, which together provide a way to collect user credentials, authenticate them, and manage them, using little or no code.

Maintenance of a machine is the machine used little or no, fails.

Then, emergency workers were sent in with little or no protection to deal with the fallout.

This tutorial is aimed at developers with little or no experience in producing semantic Web applications.

It causes confusion and chaos as many people cling to the old ways, having little or no concept of what the future holds.

Extremely cheap, long distance calling to conventional telephones around the world with little or no loss of call quality.

In most cases, there is little or no difference in meaning between the sentences with gerunds and the sentences with infinitives.

They rented an office, put up a sign and built their businesses with little or no help.

and eventually there may be little or no pain relief from even very large doses of medication.

Some people consider that history is of little or no use to us.

An individual considered to be of little or no importance.

Previous studies found that little or no blood pressure dip at night increases the risk of heart attacks and strokes.

Muslims anywhere can become radicalised and join the fight, with little or no involvement from al-Qaeda's leaders.

To most users, who may have little or no concern for kernel development, this may seem insignificant.

The traditional liquid enteral diets were designed as low residue products with little or no dietary fibre.

NAFLD encompasses a range of conditions involving the liver that affect people who drink little or no alcohol.

Those who suffer from cardio - and cerebrovascular diseases, it is best to see little or no fierce look at the game.

A linear amplifier provides signal amplification with little or no distortion , so that the output is proportional to the input.

Democrats have been pushing a new jobs bill to little or no avail , and the administration is on the defensive over public borrowing .

But for other drug-resistant forms there was little or no loss in ability to compete.

Having poor self-esteem, no confidence, either loners or people pleasers, with little or no social skills.

extemporary: Spoken, done, or composed with little or no preparation or forethought .

Using parameters enables filtering and master-details scenarios with little or no custom code.

Clients with little or no UK connection come to London to sort out their tax and estate planning and family structures.

Students who graduate with little or no debt could more readily pursue low-paying careers in public service.

Natural gas that contains relatively little or no condensate or liquid hydrocarbons.

But the figures also showed that consumer spending likely saw little or no growth across the zone in the third quarter.

He plans to add regenerative capabilities to the exoskeleton, so that it will require little or no power when moving on level ground.

Some 55% of Americans have "little" or "no" respect for the banking industry, up from 25% in 2005, according to the company.

For start-ups it's all about the ability to easily scale-out their application as their business grows, with little or no code changes.

You must adequately define all security policies to ensure uptime availability guarantees with little or no interruption thresholds.

Japanese workers often face long overtime hours and weekends with little or no compensation.

Yet, argues Mr Legrain, they too bring economic benefits and do "little or no harm" to the wages or employment prospects of native workers.

The coal maceral group that shows little or no reaction during the coking process.

They drew little or no distinction between marijuana and methamphetamine.

The illnesses with little or no fever pose more of a dilemma.

Leasing, which requires little or no down-payment, has grown from 25% of his business before the crisis to 40%.

This tutorial is for someone with little or no experience doing networking programming.

but most of them make little or no independent reflections on human problems which involve moral judgment.

Wall Street poured billions of dollars into hundreds of companies that were making little or no money.

This ensures highly portable code that requires little or no change for use on different UNIX systems.

We each bear our own responsibility to be skeptical, especially when we have little or no clarity about the source.

Emotions erupting at short notice, making us scream and shout, laugh or cry, with little or no restraint?

But most people get a mild illness and get better with little or no treatment.

King does little or no preparation for his interviews, and he doesn't use notes.

Taking widely varying routes, they are arriving at similar conclusions: little or no educational benefit is found.

Seismic gaps are places where the fault has shown little or no seismic activity for a long time.

Then came the Internet, which made it possible to communicate with millions of people at little or no cost.

Earning only 11% on required tangible assets, that mundane business would possess little or no economic Goodwill.

The latest studies on popular antidepressants like Prozac and Paxil indicate that about 50 percent of patients get little or no benefit.

NET login controls to create a complete authentication system that requires little or no code.

Often they will repair the instrument at little or no expense , but not if you've tampered with it .

This issue is one reason why there is little or no clinical evidence from China in many international guidelines.

Although such indices do exist, he thinks they are not sufficiently representative, with little or no exposure to China.

In fact, the design of the user interfaces typically has little or no effect on the scalability of the solution.

The materials that offer very little or no resistance are called conductors .

Consequently, little or no linguistic variation ensued.

Prepares equipment trains and other production variables according to the needs of the assigned process with little or no supervision.