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But there's something else going on these days; we're less and less able to say what's normal for a particular age.

It was a normal Friday, we were more or less able to do our full programme and had no issues with the car.

Over time, the body becomes less and less able to process enough insulin to meet the body's needs, and glucose builds up in the bloodstream.

Authorities can dictate how much the banks lend but are less able to control speculative inflows.

But increasingly it appears that commitment has (waned), and Australia is less able to deal with its neighbours.

The crunch has made banks less able to lend and companies less willing to borrow, at least for a few years.

"People who use Botox are less able to read others' emotions, " says Neal, who worked with a researcher at Duke University in Durham, N. C.

So, you can conclude that most Chinese people no sense of humor, most Chinese people are less able to integrate into the humor.

On most other questions I should have to fall back on the expert much earlier, and would be less able to test his pronouncements.

Less able to spend less money to spend, be able to cook at home do not eat at the hotel.

Cells eventually become less able to rid themselves of these defective mitochondria .

We need more help for the poorest countries that have been less able to seize growth opportunities from trade.

But in a similar experiment using photographs of gay and straight women, they were less able to differentiate.

As games blend our real and virtual environments, should there be concern that some people will be less able to distinguish between the two?

Some research has suggested that the bees' immune systems have been suppressed or that they are less able to defend the hive from parasites.

Currently, H5N1's HA protein has a high affinity for sugars on the surface of bird cells, but is less able to lock onto human cells.

Giving women a small dose of the male sex hormone testosterone makes them less able to empathise with others, say UK and Dutch researchers.

One of the explanations is that men are less able to talk about their problems than women, or express their emotions.

We're less and less able to say what's normal for a particular age.

But long before they get to that point, growing numbers of old people will become less able to look after themselves and need more care.

You might find that you are more or less creative now or more or less able to tackle detail oriented tasks.

And this change may leave the child less able to handle stress themselves.

Sixteen volunteers given testosterone were less able to judge the mood of facial expressions they were shown.

When you were young, especially before you turned 3, the eustachian tubes were very small and less able to keep germs out.

After a court fight, they are going to be even less able to talk with each other.

In a strange twist, though, people are less able to detect insincerity when apologies are directed at them.

Some also worry that these weakened monolines would be less able to honour credit-default swaps (CDS)[3] they had sold to the banks.

This lack of access to credit, in turn, makes households and business less able to spend, lengthening and deepening the downturn.

"They're less able to calm down over the course of a day, " Birditt said.

Women are at more risk than men as their bodies are less able to deal with alcohol's toxic effects, the psychiatrists said.

People saddled with mortgages worth more than their homes are less able to move in pursuit of new jobs.

When ocean species collapse, it makes the ocean itself weaker and less able to recover from shocks like global climate change, Worm said.

But today charismatic business leaders are less able to influence the business environment.

Most six and seven-year-olds deprived of sleep were less able to communicate and work out basic maths questions, researchers found.

But for this SIA is giving up market share, and will be less able to profit from a quicker-than-expected rebound in traffic.

"Those families will be hungrier and less able to buy healthy diets, " he said.

The longer it takes you to recover, the more influence that incident has on your actions, and the less able you are to perform .

First, the immune system in the young is underdeveloped, and less able to repair damage from radiation exposure.

All of our experiences in life not less valuable, but more valuable, not less able to love, but more able to love.

When the research team blocked the activity of the enzyme, pre-cancerous cells were less able to move and divide.

You become much more blinkered in your thinking, less able to deal with novelty and less able to evaluate risk.

The NTC may be less able to restrain its fighters once the threat from Colonel Qaddafi is removed.

A wealth of studies have found that as we age we become more distracted by interruptions and less able to juggle multiple tasks at once.

He was hurrying to take his turn, to prove to Apollo that he, though young, was no less able than the god at this sport.

Finally, they were less able to discriminate old from new objects in memory tests.

A whole generation may be less able to connect erotically to real women.

Praise doesn't help academic achievement, it controls children, it reduces motivation, and makes them less able to make decisions.

When we respond in fight or flight , we're less able to think clearly, less flexible, less resilient, and more impulsive and reactive.

Agriculture becomes less able to adapt to environmental changes, such as global warming or the appearance of new pests and diseases.

Many of those who joined his boycott now presumably find themselves even less able to afford a home.

When, by 2010, it cannot meet incremental demand, Opec will become less able to accommodate short-term fluctuations.

As a nation, we're getting sicker, and many people are less able to pay the expenses that might help them to get better.

"It's a much more complex economy today. They are a lot less able to do that now. "

Only poor people, who are less able to borrow, saw their consumption much affected by temporary changes in income.

After all, the more stressed people are, the less able they are to think creatively.

People with autism are less able to use these cues to make accurate judgements about how others are feeling.

Mitochondrial genetic material is more vulnerable to damage, and less able to make repairs.

We're less able to block out distractions, less able to hold many facts in our working memory.

Indeed, things may be worse this time round since governments may feel less able, for political or financial reasons, to bail banks out.

One is the so-called Carnegie effect: the next generation may prove less able than the founding entrepreneur.

The problem, however, is that over time, such measures are less able to stem the flows, and loopholes are often found.

Smaller societies are less able to benefit from economies of scale.

Women's bodies are less able to tolerate the alcohol and so are more affected by the heavy drinking than men.

This employee will be seen as less able to fill the fewer, newly designed post-layoff jobs.

It makes the ore-buying customer less able to defend its price arguments based on a clear, public knowledge of the wider market.

These can serve to make you groggy and less able to react properly.

People over age 50 need extra vitamin D because, for one thing, our skin becomes less able to make vitamin D as we age.

The researchers suspect this is due to infants being less able to move around and avoid the smoke.

Poorer countries, which are less able to adapt to change, will suffer the worst from the unavoidable impacts of climate change.

The brains of bright people also use less energy during problem solving than do those of their less able peers.

The bigger and more complicated banks become, the less able governments will be to let them die if they get into trouble.

We aim to help the less able in society to lead an independent life.

Creativity sets us apart from intelligent machines that threaten to make less able humans redundant.

And it is less able to hand down opinions that count, because they do not bear the seal of all the world's great powers.

In fact, the rats were less able to cope when they didn't get fat and sugar in their diets.

"We are less able to endure suffering. "

And as people age, their bodies are less able to convert the vitamin into the hormone that is its biologically active form.

Just as we protect less able human beings , so we should safeguard the welfare of other weaker species .

Instead, start from perfection and then hack for the less able browsers.

They're sick, and so they're less able to defend themselves from the mosquitoes.

far less able than human brain in focusing on relevant information.

Walk around and offer help to the less able students when necessary.

So Obama has been less able and less willing to act -- except, that is, when he is making inexplicable concessions.

Banks are less able or willing to lend than before the recession.

Many developing countries could also see declines in bilateral aid, making economies that were already fragile less able to cope.

Having diabetes can make you less able to fight off infection, including gum infections that can lead to serious gum disease.

Ask the intermediate or less able students to do the role-play.

I work closely with someone who is less able than I am and a lot lazier.

makes germs in the mouth less able to cause decay

Not only are they less able to deal with the pressures ofday-to-day existence,