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This tends to help make it last longer, so you're less likely to reach for another one a few minutes later.

Far from contributing to marital breakdowns, the working wife is up to 50 per cent less likely to see her marriage fall apart.

Older people are less likely to be caught up in their emotions and more likely to focus on the positive, ignoring the negative.

She found that teens who eat at least five meals a week with their families are 35 percent less likely to be 'disordered eaters'.

Teens will be less likely to spend it if they have to get the money out of the bank first.

But viruses altered to have several fail-safe mechanisms would be expected to be less likely to harm normal cells.

More buffers require more memory but make it less likely for a database object to be rolled out to disk because of a lack of buffer space .

If anything, they actually seem to benefit from the poisons, becoming less likely to fall prey to their greatest enemy, the least weasel.

Youngsters are less likely to succeed at school if their mothers return to work within a year of their birth, according to a major study.

He might have done more, too, to justify his optimism that war between Pakistan and India is now less likely "than ever" .

A woman is less likely to think of herself as irresistible or to take it for granted that an attractive man will chat her up .

We also found that the more sophisticated the exposure assessment, the less likely it was that an effect would be reported.

Certainly this makes it less likely that the U. S. could fall back into a recession soon, at least according to Goldman Sachs (GS).

Children with high self-esteem are less likely to be bullied, or to bully, or belong to gangs.

When it comes to security, "you could use a Mac instead of a PC, " he said, arguing that viruses are less likely to affect Mac users.

Anything that increases the value of women's time and adds to the cost of caring for a child makes a woman less likely to have that child.

Happier employees, he said, tend to have better communications skills and are less likely to quit.

You and I as engineers would be less likely to be frauded on an engineering contract than would a shoe vendor, for instance.

Investors also said the Federal Reserve would be less likely to cut stimulus to the economy while employment remained weak.

ARF was more common in men and among the elderly, although those aged 80 years or more were less likely to receive acute dialysis treatment.

Passengers would then be able to choose (and pay more for) an airline that is less likely to leave them stranded for long.

The company had said in October that it was switching to a new soybean oil believed to be less likely to cause heart disease.

Remember that a man also needs appreciation and flattery. If he gets it from his wife, he's far less likely to look for it elsewhere.

In a British study, people who had intercourse twice a week or more were less likely to have heart attacks and other fatal coronary events.

Older women were also far less likely to be sexually active, with 36 percent saying they had not had a partner in the past year.

As such they're going to be less likely to have to snoop through a partner's things to try to find indiscretions.

They say China is less likely to shift its policy if such a move appears to its population as a capitulation to foreign pressure.

Without a focus or target, employers are less likely to pick you out of a crowd for having the specific qualifications they want.

The German survey found that the more educated a woman was, the less likely it was that she would be satisfied by sex.

The most stressed women were up to 75% less likely to have boys than the least stressed, the conference in Orlando, Florida, was told.

However, a commercial agency could be very expensive and the applicants are less likely to stay with the company for a long time.

Li Xiongbing, a lawyer working with the Open Constitution Initiative, said he believed it was now much less likely Mr Xu would be indicted.

And women in a 2005 study who took two or more vacations per year were less likely to be depressed than women who took one every two years.

If you stand your ground in the meeting, you'll greatly increase their opinion of you, and they'll be less likely to try to trick you.

On the face of it, it is hard to think of a less likely trigger for trouble in global equity markets.

He found that young people who have family dinners at least five times a week are less likely to use drugs.

A few hours with his oeuvre is worth more than a week in Davos (and is less likely to cause skiing injuries).

They, too, were somewhat better educated and less likely to be poor than the typical young Lebanese man of the time.

While it might be possible to formulate it into a weekly tablet, users are less likely to forget a daily pill.

As such they're going to be less likely to have to snoop through a partner's things, trying to find indiscretions.

And a financial transactions tax, by discouraging reliance on ultra-short-run financing, would have made such a run much less likely.

When risky borrowers find it easy to get credit, they are less likely to go bust, which makes them appear less risky.

But resumes from women that included photos were up to 30 percent less likely to get a response, whether or not the women were attractive.

And if the hairdresser is gay, so much the better, since the attention is much less likely to be taken as an untoward advance.

The two women with amygdala injuries, however, did not behave the same way and were much less likely to balance potential gains and losses.

they are much less likely to attack you, and they're busy trying to fulfill their low-cost version of the American Dream.

And, to make it more fun, their users are less likely to be able to easily install a missing package.

But the more cups of coffee the men drank, the less likely they were to be in that most lethal group.

The Dwarf Cavendish is the most widely planted as it is better adapted to a cool climate and is less likely to be blown over.

In a recent Pew poll, 25% of Americans said they would be less likely to vote for a presidential candidate who was a Mormon.

And once customers have signed up for a bundle of services, they are less likely to be lured away by a rival.

They do not always work as intended, but they make overt and gross discrimination less likely.

Up to a third of students with ADHD drop out of high school, and they're also less likely to attend and graduate from college.

Then local or regional conflicts would be much less likely to end up in Washington.

In these pieces the reader is less likely to be interested in what he says than in the unpredictability of his taste.

You could solve the problem by coming back to recession-hit London, where you would be less likely to have such excitements in your life.

The iPerceptions report clearly showed that the more experienced a customer was, the less likely they were to abandon their transaction.

Even if you have the most interesting article ever, people will be less likely to link to it if the rest of your site doesn't live up to it.

That's assuming that women make it to the table, since research shows that they are less likely to ask for raises.

The link may be hormonal, or due to the fact that obese women are less likely to be screened for breast cancer.

People hate their jobs more than ever, but are less likely to leave them due to the lack of options. Accident? Yah, right.

And best of all, sharing good times and bad with your pet will make you less likely to turn to food to feel good.

A fast strategy also means a father is less likely to stick with one woman for the long term, reducing his involvement with his children.

The danger of a massive strategic nuclear attack on the United States is predicted by experts to be less likely today.

The children with ADHD also took longer to fall asleep, were more anxious about sleep, and less likely to get enough sleep.

They found that people who readily jumped back into life had a greater sense of purpose and were less likely to think about the past.

As well as making future wars less likely, Sir Peter hopes that this will attract bright and culturally sensitive people to an army career.

In new research, the more people believe good things will happen, the less likely they were to suffer a stroke within two years.

Machine-based threats are less likely than network threats because access to the machine in production is usually restricted.

Economists said it was now looking less likely that the anticipated second-half pick-up would be as strong as initially thought.

If it slackened while expanding, its strength would be absolutely null, and it would be even less likely to survive.

You're going to be much less likely to encounter a problem if you're clean and sober when working with your power tools.

Conversely, women who ate at least one fatty dairy food a day were 27 percent less likely to have this problem.

Most men dressed themselves, and a sword drawn from the left with the right hand would be less likely to get caught in the shirt.

If he's impatient and rough, and she doesn't have the orgasm, she may instinctively feel he's less likely to be a good husband and father.

And teens who eat with family five nights a week are less likely to use drugs, finds a Columbia University study.

The team was less likely to check files in and out on a regular basis.

Second it shows that, at every age up to 60, today's Americans are less likely to be hitched than any generation before them.

Of those, just a handful die, making fatal shark attacks less likely than lightning strikes.

In psychological studies of why people donate to charity, the mere mention of money makes people less likely to help.

In fact, people who volunteer for two or more organizations are less likely to die from heart disease or related diseases.

And with better technology farmers would be less likely to burn excess biomass in open fields, causing pollution.

In fact, those who masturbated more than five times a week were one-third less likely to develop prostate cancer.

It is interesting that boys are much less likely to receive this sort of briefly fashionable name.

When he addresses Congress on September 8th he is less likely to call for a big new stimulus than for a laundry list of lesser initiatives.

If there weren't, you'd be less likely to stay late at work (or even come in at all) or struggle to save money and invest it profitably.

And voters and Congress might be less likely to support future trade agreements if the safeguards in existing agreements are never used.

The children with ASD were less likely to yawn contagiously than their typically developing peers, the researchers found.

Bamboo frames also absorb vibration better than carbon fiber, absorb impacts better, and are less likely to break.

The valve's selling point was that it was less likely to leak.

They found that men were less likely to be offended than women and were less likely to think they committed wrongdoing.

At the bottom of the education heap, too, men are less likely to have wives who earn a lot.

Other explanations include the so-called "bystander effect, " in which crowds make people less likely to help injured people.

The police are far less likely to charge at you with batons if you strike in a Japanese- owned factory rather than one owned by the state .

They found that marriage actively makes men nicer - or at least less likely to indulge in antisocial activities.

Once politicians understand that everything is public, they are much less likely to offer the unadorned truth, at least to ordinary voters.

Developmental research has shown convincingly that traumatized children are more, not less, likely to be traumatized again.

Expend, even if it's cold: You're less likely to be playing outside, but you still need to use those calories up.

Big Republican midterm election wins in Congress make it less likely that any substantial government spending program would be forthcoming.

This design minimizes galling tendency with non-hardened stainless steel seats and is less likely to stick in the body seat.

He insisted that immigrating to Singapore is less likely to happen , joking " They ( Chinese people ) would never let me go . "

Whether that means an uncontained meltdown was now out of the question -- or even less likely -- was not clear.

It even seems to make the blood less "sticky and therefore less likely to produce unwanted clots . "

If a woman drops off the career track for a couple of years, Korean firms are far less likely than Western ones to welcome her back.

The higher your peak bone mass, the more bone you have "in the bank" and the less likely you are to develop osteoporosis as you age.

These people tended to be less religious, and less likely to be Roman Catholics, but they were otherwise comparable to other study subjects.

With a cell phone, you're less likely to go down the wrong street and see new things or unexpectedly meet new people.

I'd be less likely to do that with the MacBook because of its size, it would make it more of a to-do.

Women are also less likely to be members of the groups that campaign for an increase in speed limits.

Though far less likely, it is possible that you might want new clients talking to old web services.

Players with high adaptability are less likely to get homesick as they are better able to adjust to new countries and cultures.

The deal has sent the Israeli government into a panic, making it even less likely to consent to meaningful peace negotiations.

Clearing debris from the opposite side of the building where people are less likely to be is a waste of precious time.

It's also true that lonely people are less likely to engage in physical activity and less likely to call on others when they need help.

Outdoor barbecue ready to eat food and spices which are less likely to fatten up ah?

You're less likely to sign up for another account if you decided you could live without it once.

Pregnancy is less likely to occur under these circumstances but it is possible.

Hence they end up being better able to manage stress in their adult years and less likely to panic or get daunted when problems occur.

Black men are less likely to rape or to abuse children sexually than white men are.

And the DOJ could be less likely to block contempt charges against former White House aides who have refused to testify before Congress.

Young people who said they were active in religious groups, sports or other interests were less likely to discuss risky behaviors.

If you prepare for your worst case scenario, you'll find it makes the odds of it happening much less likely.

To minimize this effect, food aid can be directed to the very poor, who are less likely to use it as an alternative to local supplies.

In a second experiment, people with more Monopoly money were less likely to help a person who dropped a box of pencils.

Knowing that your instructor and peers expect to see you come out means you're less likely to skip a session.

Which of the following multiple choices means that the more impatient you are, the less likely you are able to complete an urgent task?

That makes it less likely that Mrs Merkel will have to call a vote of confidence on the euro.

And on average across groups, males were less likely to have had sex than females.

By an amazing coincidence, the politicians from such areas are much less likely to support carbon curbs.

This sense of entitlement is crucial to understanding why people misbehave in high office. In its absence, abuses will be less likely.

A republic armed with its own citizens is less likely tocome under the rule of one of its citizens than acity armed with foreign soldiers.

In fact, the more I nagged my husband the less likely he was to do the things I thought he should do. Was that bad?

Americans are probably no less likely to be injured or cheated than the citizens of countries that spend a fraction as much.

While Americans embrace doomsday scenarios, they are less likely to work together on how to live afterward, she said.

That could reflect the fact that people who have health problems are less likely to have jobs that require travel, the authors said.

Women with humanities degrees are less likely to be in demand for jobs in high-tech industries, which tend to pay well.

You know that people are less likely to go with this trend than they would have many whipsaws ago.

If you do what you're excited about most of the time, you'll be less likely to put it off.

It is widely believed that people of a cheerful disposition is less likely to be heavily affected by adversity.

Educated women are more likely to go out to work, more likely to demand contraception and less likely to want large families.

However, circumcision does not make a man immune to HIV infection, it just means that it's less likely to happen.

True, Americans are less likely these days to keep their savings in the bank, preferring money-market funds.

Patients are very aware of the adage "you get what you pay for" and are therefore much less likely to complain at the smaller hospital.

Now that outcome is looking less likely. Although the Conservatives started the year with a healthy poll lead, it has been narrowing.

It might mean putting on headphones in an open-plan office, so that colleagues are less likely to interrupt you for a chat.

According to an old Chinese saying, a distant relative is less likely to help you out than a near neighbor.

In some communities, daughters are more likely to be malnourished and less likely to be educated and taken to the doctor.

But, I'll admit it, that fantasy is less likely to occur than any of the other events I listed above.

"But men are less likely to speak out or ask for help, " he said.

Some studies also also shows children with lesbian parents are no more or less likely to have tendencies towards homosexuality.

Players aged 24 and above are less likely to see dramatic improvements to their attributes through training or natural progression.

Mexican-Americans and African-Americans were less likely than other groups to receive treatment of any kind.

Beth: That's exactly what I'm saying. In coed schools, boys are less likely to enrolling these courses for fear of looking feminine.

A well-built pointcut is less likely to stop matching the required locations after changes are made to the code.

If you stick to the well-traveled streets, you'll be less likely to have anyone approach you with a gun or a knife, the experts say.

When I was the governor of Texas, I used to always say , an educated child is one less likely to commit a crime.

NO PRESIDENT in Paraguayan history would seem less likely to have to confront a guerrilla uprising than Fernando Lugo.

Judging by the general surge in bond yields of the peripheral countries, it looks less likely.

Then researchers found that female rats were less likely to invite sexual activity from the rats that had been raised with many females.

The more often a person ate breakfast, the less likely he or she was to be overweight or obese.

Our findings confirm previous research indicating that overweight or obese girls are less likely to be sexually active than other girls.

Over more than two decades, the moderate coffee drinkers were somewhat less likely to develop any form of prostate cancer.

Whether accurate or not, the correction itself should make any draconian measures less likely.

Residents are more likely to have health insurance, less likely to have chronic health problems and less likely to smoke.

U. S. and other officials are also looking at the option of imposing a no-fly zone but that appears to be a less likely option.

Fat-soluble compounds like vitamins A, D, E and K and the antioxidant compounds called are less likely to leach out in water.

If they do not get spanked by parents, the child will be less likely to hit when upset with their peers.

and the higher a family's standard of living, the less likely an increase in that standard in the next generation is to increase happiness.

You want to understand, and you're less likely to believe what you don't see or hear.

Toyota's unionized plant in California and a small car plant in Canada are less likely to implement the reduction in weekly hours.

The group says it has found that students in higher priced programs are more likely, not less likely, to repay their students loans.

The more open they are, the less likely black women would be to put themselves at risk unwittingly.

TIA patients who didn't correctly recognize their symptoms were less likely to call emergency services.

As for shaking hands, older patients were somewhat less likely to say they preferred the practice, the surveyed suggested.

Some observational studies have suggested that children who typically eat breakfast cereal are less likely to be overweight.

And we're even less likely to ask hard questions about consumer culture, capitalism, history, law, etc.

Treating them well means they are less likely to leave, for one thing, which saves money.

You'll be less likely to back off from what you really think when you're in the heat of the situation.

For instance, optimistic teenagers were only slightly less likely to be involved in criminal activity or heavy substance abuse.

That way those who share the terrorists' religion or race are less likely to be silent accomplices. More could act as sources themselves.

If you think you're doing a good job, you don't double-check your work, and so you're less likely to catch mistakes.

Modern medicine, meanwhile, means the hulk's weakened immune system is less likely to expose him to lethal infection.

Bottles are less likely to leak BPA at room temperature, but repeated cleaning and warm contents could increase the possibility of a leak.

A survey of men found the more frequently a man masturbates between the ages of 20 and 50, the less likely they are to get prostate cancer.

A food with sugar or starch is less likely to cause cavities if it's eaten with other foods rather than alone.

Conversely, a recovering economy means fewer bank failures, so government balance-sheets are less likely to be strained by bail-outs.

North Korea is less likely to pick a fight if it knows there are costs to its decision.

However , given the brief and transient nature of these files , this is less likely .

Holding a "7" upright in your hand, you're less likely to view it sideways as a "V, " she said.

And further, in doing so, they were less likely to think they had the trait themselves.

By the same token, Mr Obama is less likely to pander to his party's protectionist wing than his primary rhetoric suggests.

Ekman discovered that experienced Buddhists were less likely to be shocked, flustered, surprised or as angry as other people.

Teams are also less likely to neglect tests or other important details -- that alone increases productivity.

They stopped using their own cell phones and in favor of those owned by family members or friends that were less likely to be monitored.

Weight-bearing exercise helps keep bones strong and less likely to fall prey to the body's own mechanisms in later age.

To keep unit numbers up to strength, they are less likely now to request discharges for problematic soldiers, even some who commit crimes.

When everything is about work we are far less likely to do a good job. And of course, all work and no play, makes Jill a dull girl.

The more traditional family roles are, the less likely the kitchen is to be used as a living area.

But these reforms will make another crisis of this kind less likely, and, should it occur, make it less severe than it otherwise would be.

The more times you can fend off the question, the less likely you will have to be the one to give the first number.

Reducing this risk means moving soon to restrain the long-term budget deficit so creditors are less likely to bolt.

An Indian latrine cleaner may get to vote, she says, but a Chinese one is far less likely to be viewed as completely subhuman.

But the affluent, who typically have lots of assets and good access to borrowing, are much less likely to be in that situation.

People with the SHBG-raising gene were less likely to have diabetes; people with the SHBG-lowering gene were more likely to have diabetes.

Those with credit problems will be less likely to get unsecured cards, and have to turn to secured cards, which require a deposit.

If you put people on the defensive, they're much less likely to understand or embrace your choices.

Without Latinos, their dreams of seizing western states like Colorado and Nevada would be much less likely to come true.

Women are less likely to recognize their own symptoms as those of a heart attack and often delay seeking emergency treatment.

As those models appear to deliver growth and stability, they are less likely to be adapted to a purely western model.

College graduates, though hardly immune from the downturn, are also far less likely to be unemployed than non-graduates.

Rural-urban black migrant families were somewhat less likely to have received welfare money than blacks still living in rural areas.

Scientific literature indicates that people who drink moderately are less likely to have heart disease than those who abstain.

So, why are many Americans willing to go the distance to share turkey and stuffing, but less likely to share a family dinner daily?

Thus, the semi-insulating nitride semiconductor crystal substrate in which warpage is less and cracking is less likely can be obtained.

Well inductive arguments are such that the truth of their premises makes the truth of their conclusion more or less likely.

We agree it feels wrong, so we're doing some tweaks to make it even less likely to be the most optimal set up.

Women were also less likely to receive a liver transplant within 3 years of listing in both the pre-MELD and post-MELD groups.

The more that your inspiration becomes a part of your life, the less likely it is to run out when you need it most.

Volar scars are better tolerated as they are less obvious and the blood supply to the radius is less likely to be disturbed.

Teenagers who feel less connected to teachers, school and peers are less likely to graduate and go on to college.

His comeback may make it even less likely that Samsung will embrace a more transparent holding-company structure as, say, LG has.

By their nature, they are less likely to cross swords (claws? ) with a group of good-aligned PCs.

Aim to maintain your weight and fitness, and you'll be less likely to give up completely if you miss a run or two.

Snack throughout the day. It revs your metabolism and makes you less likely to overeat when you sit down to a full meal.

Well-educated people are less likely to smoke than men with fewer years of schooling.

By being proactive now and looking for activities for the next 6 months you are less likely to miss a great opportunity.

Another panda is likely to be released in the coming year, this time a female (thought less likely to get into trouble).

The greater the financial and other interests and prejudices in a scientific field, the less likely the research findings are to be true.

Planning parents were 40 per cent less likely to miscarry than those for whom conception was an accident.

Females with pot bellies and muffin tops are less likely to break bones than those with perfectly toned tums, research has found.

Keep indulgent treats out of the house and you're much less likely to be tempted.

With Mr Obama throwing his weight behind internet privacy, this rearguard action is less likely to be successful.

In the long run, it will save you calories, because you'll feel more satisfied and you'll be less likely to binge and eat mindlessly .

When I speak to a group at Chrysler, I'm less likely to be entertaining than when I'm on the dinner circuit.

If you've already started focusing on what you eat and how you exercise, this will be less likely to happen to you.

But others said that without IMF pressure, Germany would have no reason to move, making a deal less likely.

Stability is also a great asset to reliability, since a stable system is less likely to be affected by problems.

Generally, the transformations may be less likely to catch spelling errors, extra words, and missing words in logographic languages.

Men are much less likely to suffer from anxiety disorder for a variety of physiological and social reasons.

The city recently enlarged culverts along its highways so storm runoff would be less likely to wash out roads.

That in turn would make it less likely that revenue-raising targets would be hit.

Women were less likely to have a highly rated handshake, partly because traditionally they shake hands less than men.

Researchers found they were less likely to suffer high blood pressure during pregnancy and less likely to give birth to smaller babies.

Boys in the United States with common names like Michael and David are less likely to commit crimes than those named Ernest or Ivan.

Consumers on the lowest end of the scale are less likely to try to borrow.

With its elegant Timeline design, Facebook is less likely to fall into the same trap.

If you are the underdog and morale is good, you could still try "I want to see more" but it is less likely to work.

Organic chicken and pork were less likely to be contaminated by antibiotic -resistant bacteria.

For reasons that are not clear, twins are less likely than other kids to develop cancer in childhood, the results of a new study suggest.

You're much less likely to stick with it, so you won't benefit as much.