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Only a quarter or less of those polled in all countries believed the recession would last a year or less.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am now ready to call a man a good man more easily than formerly.

Are all ready to help no less of our instructors had the ignition.

Those taking phony supplements reported a greater sense of invulnerability and less of a desire to exercise.

The fact that the gift can be abused or perverted does not make it less of a gift.

Even though Americans underestimate how much inequality exists, they still want less of it, as studies have shown since the 1980s.

They have seen considerably less of that on the economy than health care, and for that, they are paying a political price.

As I wrote a few months ago, I've come to see being cheap as less of an unadulterated positive.

Though she is really less of a woman at this point than something you used to scare crows or children.

Had he been less of a buffoon, South Africa's road to democracy might have been bloodier.

Cultural compatibility is much less of a problem, given the extent to which Chinese society is built on personal connections, or guanxi.

Professor Mattson said he found the mice fed on alternate days were more sensitive to insulin and needed to produce less of it.

A poorly written press release might have caused less of a stir, were it not for the fact that Greenpeace had come up with the scenario.

Leslie was the regular centre half from the war until 1951 while Denis was less of a regular due to his cricketing obligations.

It would never happen again, she resolved, and she would see less of him in the future.

Changing the label and culling symbolic perks would not make a firm less of a threat if it failed.

With that achieved, though, there is less of a sense of the next big thing.

He said that with the major gauges at these levels, market pros have even less of a sense of where the so-called bottom is.

Closer ties to China could set up Japan as more of a buffer between the U. S. and China, and less of a protectorate of the United States.

You may not even notice it as you begin to do less and less of the things you did when you were dating.

But a report in the Wall Street Journal says the session promises to be even less of a free-flowing exchange of ideas than usual.

Now that the U. S. involvement in Iraq has wound down, Crane says, oil seems to be less of an American security concern.

Just as clearly, unintelligence is not what most psychologists seem to suppose, the same thing as intelligence, only less of it.

And the kind of independence he might eventually seek could be much less of a break-up than many now imagine.

It is only a question whether he will have more or less of that sort of thing, and how he will arrange to make it possible.

But then, while no one wants to think of extinction, the word is far less of an abstraction in Hawaii than in other places.

Just because no-one has yet needed to fight for the right to eat meat does not make it any less of a right worth defending.

In the last 20 years, it would seem, a sending-off has had less of an impact than it had in the first 120 years of football's history.

That means it takes less of Duche's fine powder to produce a neutral medium: a crystal-clear, odorless gelatin that's easy to work with.

Jolin and I are in the same company. I would not degrade myself to think any less of her so as to put me in a prettier light.

There used to be considerably less of this outside of the sterile side of pharmaceutical packaging, where it's been ongoing for some time.

Alas, there seems to be much less of this waste than the politicians like to claim, at least as far as head counts are concerned.

"I think it's becoming less of a mass-market item and kind of a niche product that caters to a small but loyal following, " he said.

They fret that the problem will thus seem less of a crisis and that this will make it harder to raise money.

This might be less of an issue in India, just as it is less an issue in South East Asia.

If it has nothing to do with your goals, either drop it completely or take in less of it.

not drink much less of a hero is heroic, and the wine can only be regarded as a hero out of aperitif, appetizer, wine, liquor beauty.

It put restaurant dining within the reach of the average American, and made cross-country travel less of a culinary roulette.

But "fat" is only pejorative when we allow places like the sun bar to tell us that being fat somehow makes us less of a person.

The only other choice I had was to think less of me. . . and it was easier and more fun to think less of them instead.

Germany, too, appears ready to respond to the dangers of energy by using less of it.

Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your skin and less of your raiment.

Your common parent is a god. This hardly counts towards any sort of common genetic bond, and even less of a reason to shirk what you owe .

Yet this mix of history, politics and culture may turn out to be much less of a draw than either Mr Salmond hopes or Mr Gallagher fears.

But in the last few days, as the time drew nearer, she had reflected less and less of her early enthusiasm.

For a start, there would be less of a sense of hurry to achieve and succeed right now.

But it's less of a stretch to see this mainland spending at least put some life into consumer- or stimulus-related stocks.

Had banks been forced to hold more capital, the boom might have been more constrained, and there would be less of a bust.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

There was no effect when a neighbor gained or lost weight, however, and family members had less of an influence than friends.

Also, if you are facing a large raise or re raise you want to call off less of your stack out of position than in position.

The educated layman, of course, knows even less of the matter.

Working a little bit later and enjoying slightly less of that long, long retirement would become a very tempting offer.

It was much more of you and much less of me.

He plays down the central accusation that Microsoft would face less of a piracy threat if it just lowered prices.

Independent of those things, the findings still showed that optimists had less of a chance of dying during the eight-year period.

"They see it as both a chance to reduce their costs and to fulfill mandates to make less of an environmental impact, " he said.

If the Chinese were to try to do something right now, it would have much less of an effect because of current market conditions in the U. S.

'Last year, there was no doubt that prices would go down, ' Mr. Xia said, but further declines now seem less of a sure bet.

eg: Would you think less of me if I didn't go to your wedding ceremony?

The world's consumers are able to enjoy less of that product than they would have enjoyed without restriction.

You do less of that in a world where everything is a snippet, everything is an instant message, everything is an alert.

less of the sort of behaviour that is likely to interfere with her egg-laying mission.

It may be less of a handicap than it once was, but having a man sent off is still a major disadvantage.

Or at least, to do things differently: maybe more of some things, less of others, and all in a more effective way.

Breathe deeply, calm down and tell yourself that you'll find a way to do what you want with less of a financial outlay.

The next time you return to that map, the base will be under your control, which makes further missions in the area less of a risk.

The project is due to be finished by the end of this week. From next week on, we should be in less of a rush.

because we shall see less of him.

But then my colleague pointed out that last year, we got press passes for free anyway which somehow makes it a bit less of an achievement.

What happens if carbon capture and storage turns out to be less of a panacea than now imagined?

Finally, censorship: there is much less of it than is generally believed, but it is still a real preoccupation.

If we wanted to be thinner, we simply ate less of our favorite foods and waited patiently for the scale to drop, a pound at a time.

I love a quote from Alan Cooper that says: "No matter how cool your interface is, less of it would be better. "

Famine set in early, as the daily individual ration fell to 125 grams or less of "bread" (often bulked out with sawdust or wallpaper paste).

That visualization exercise, found a new lab-based study, could help you eat less of the foods you really want to avoid.

But the irony is that a truly disastrous Labour leader would be less of a problem for the party, as he or she could be removed.

'There's a desire to be liquid, and less trust in financial markets and less of an appetite for risk. '

Biodiversity is also less of an issue for livestock animals that have been bred for millennia to be genetically homogenous.

But before you think less of Newton, consider that most experimental scientists of the 17th century believed in it too.

This increased diffusion results in less of the blue wavelength being visible to you and thus what remains appears yellow.

With so much focus on Europe, earnings -- even with most companies beating expectations -- have been given less of the spotlight.

Independent of those things, the findings still showed that optimists had less of a chance of dying during the 8-year period.

Also humans are lazy and often take all trees upon a given piece of land rather than removing half or less of the trees.

But this should be less of a problem than it used to be now that economies are based on services not manufacturing.

When it comes to larger-scale structural components, however, fiber-reinforced plastics have had less of an impact.

This year there has been less of the usual footage of burly men bashing small furry skulls and of blood smeared across the ice floes.

Purified silicon, the basic material of such cells, is expensive. The temptation, therefore, is to use less of it.

Love for a man less of a headache. I told myself forget her, but love, not as simple as a headache.

I would love to see him become more human and ultimately much less of an angel.

For now, with Chinese banks offering so much credit to companies, turning to private equity is less of a priority for China Inc.

"Drinking less of them (sugary drinks) and more pure water can only be good in my view, " she said.

Whatever happens, the court may be less of a cosy club than it has been hitherto, insiders say.

Until needed, phones stay where they belong: out-of-sight and less of a distraction in a pocket.

Technology "democratizes" social and political processes and, for better and worse, institutions play less of a mediating role.

I love this quote: "No matter how cool your interface is, less of it would be better. "

The fact that Android has severely limited video codec support is less of a problem on a phone, because, well, it's a phone.

'If you can immobilise the skin around the wound, as this does, it eases the tension and gives you less of a scar, ' he adds.

It's conceivable that you wanted to sabotage your marriage, so the sibling would feel like less of a failure in the eyes of the parents.

The mere fact that Wall Street poses less of an immediate threat to the rest of us doesn't mean it has permanently mended its ways.

A true friend will be eager to help and will not think any less of you, nor make you feel diminished for asking.

Russia stayed out of Kyrgyszstan's ethnic troubles this year, suggesting less of an appetite for military interventions in its near-abroad.

An American who loses his job today has less of a chance of finding another one than at any time since records began half a century ago.

However, this becomes less of an issue when the wind turbines are built offshore.

Baroness: You know, you're much less of a riddle when I see you here, George.

If the pairing experiment produces better results more often, the means of getting there becomes less of an issue.

Less and less of her discourse, no longer around, like cyana ask you questions about even and you are not interested in the quarrel.

He has pronounced you less of an ass than might have been expected.

Women weigh less than most men and their metabolic system manufactures less of an enzyme called dehydrogenase, which breaks down alcohol.

I am aware of that. The one child policy would be less of a problem if people were more willing to keep their girls.

Women players in China are far more grounded, Xu said, perhaps because their salaries are just a hundredth or less of the men's.

She says a full-time working mother makes her time with her children more meaningful because there is less of it.

Says Ms. Parker, the corporate trainer: 'If you can take little vacations throughout the year, it's less of a shock when vacation is over. '

Yet, Roberts isn't alone in suggesting that yoga offers less of a workout than we have been led to believe.

The results showed that lightweight code reviews take one-fifth the time (or less) of formal reviews, yet they find just as many bugs.

Ms. Confer speculates that perhaps men lose status if they sleep with other men, becoming less of a man in women's eyes.

Now, with the facts so readily available with a few clicks of a computer mouse, that is less of an excuse.

The Omega 1600 RFID converter is consistent with the set-up and operation of a press and that made training less of an issue.

True, the India of today is less of a regulatory nightmare than before the opening-up in 1991.

When your deadline is two years out, you feel less of an urgency to deliver and take decisions than when your deadline is four weeks out.

When it was less of a mainstream activity it was not so connected to the wider economic cycle.

It seems less of a threat than I'd expected.

Camphor Tree is now less and less of this scarce plants, let us work together to protect this tree bar.

Whatever salt you use, less of it could be good for your health.

No matter how cool your interface is, less of it would be better.

When it was less of a ma in stream activity it was not so connected to the wider economic cycle.

At the same time, money has become much less of an obstacle for Chinese and Indian groups than just a few years ago.

While homesick kids at summer camp have the supervision of counselors, college students have less of that.

Open ocean reflects less of the Sun's energy than ice does, so a large-scale summer melt would mean more absorption of heat in the ocean.

This special issue paper focuses on trade protection: inter alia, whether current circumstances warrant more or less of it.

This makes Iraq increasingly less of a mess domestically but more a factor for regional instability throughout the Middle East.

The research shows that the body produces less of the sleep hormone melatonin when exposed to light.

Cesium-134 is considered somewhat less of a long-term problem because it has a half-life of two years.

Launched back in spring of 2008, Surchur's original homepage was barely even worthy of a mention, much less of use.

Some analysts say the party's war on the internet is less of a priority than its more secretive effort to silence online political dissent.

Assuming companies in other parts of the world are paying their taxes, that makes the 35% corporate-tax rate seem less of a burden.

If you displace it, there is less of a tendency to come to its own equilibrium value.

There is now more subjective assessment by management of a company's accounts, making verification less of a black-and-white issue.

If this delay happens frequently the system soon becomes less of an advantage and more of a liability.

In a matter of months, 10% of the bank's 56, 000 seriously delinquent borrowers had their payments reduced to 38% or less of income.

So an investment bank within a commercial bank, the argument runs, will fund more cheaply and pose less of a systemic threat.

Brazil needs less of a welfare state, more investment and a cheaper currency.

Most data architects have no such executive decree to rely on, even though they ask far less of the organization than ERP.

If you drink any coffee or tea, have it between meals so it has less of an effect on your iron absorption.

Money becomes less of an issue, as a significant sum can be collected in small increments from a large group.

This was marginally less of a seasonal decline than projected by this Report last month.

While athletes do not have to worry about diseases, and pollution is less of a problem here than in Beijing, there are other challenges.

TI is aware of the index's shortcomings. The CPI, it says, is "an annual snapshot" with "less of a focus on year-on-year trends" .

But owning the club may be less of a business venture than a vanity investment for the Russian billionaire.

he is less of a fool than i thought he was.

But by having a glass of water with each drink, you'll wind up ordering fewer of them (and have less of a hangover the next morning, too).

The fact that Tata is an Indian business was less of an issue for West Midlanders than for some disgruntled US car dealers.

My boss told me I should "try to be less of a perfectionist. "

There are two additional conditions that must be added to these new mortgages, to make them less of a windfall for borrowers.

But this year, several factors have combined to render the United States less of a presence.

'That becomes less of a problem when they have a working partner who is often earning as much if not more than them. '

Billington: As contract packages, it's a bit less of an issue for us since we don't own the product or brand.

It will arrive soon. . . and once it does, that 'great fascination' will begin to have far less of a hold on you.

Whether or not it is in your personal best interests is much less of a consideration.

Rather, it's the act of thinking specifically about eating the food you want to avoid that may help you want less of it.

Unexpectedly large federal budget cuts are chipping away at quarterly growth rates with less of a cushion than previously imagined.

Snow, sand and sea foam reflect ultraviolet light, the report notes, and thinning ozone filters out less and less of it.

Higher-hope caregivers also showed higher satisfaction with life, and felt less of a sense of burden.

Furthermore, increased use of biofuel and less of oil is better for the environment, he said.

There's already less of that than you fear and if you're clear but careful this week, there'll soon be even less.

In this environment, rapid subscriber growth and lower personnel costs make immediate operational savings less of a concern.

China is becoming a bit less of a counterfeiters' paradise.

Decrease the total amount of fat you eat to 30% or less of your total daily calories.

A bad mood has less of a chance of sabotaging my day when I fit in a run.

Here's the difference between the two: one focuses on doing less of what's wrong, but the other focuses on doing more of what's right.

Do not think less of me Icarus.

Midwestern or Northeastern American accents are also easily understood by international users and carry less of an upper-crust connotation.

This class of materials is sold today, but delivers half or less of the power of the best rare-earth-based magnets.

It looks like managers have less of a say but I will go on my way if that happened.

There was less of a problem with decaffeinated cola, but the findings were similar for diet soft drinks.

Maybe he went to be the technical director of the French Football Federation to get into maybe a little bit less of a pressurised job.

Open formats are the rule these days and proprietary formats like those from Microsoft will have less of an appeal.

The aim is to develop power stations that emit less of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

As Gmail becomes more robust and corporate-friendly, companies have even less of a reason to stick with Microsoft's tired-and-true Outlook.

Bathroom had less of a sewage pipe smell (still a bit there though).

Because fiscal positions were sound, there was less of what economists call Ricardian equivalence.

In the long run however, your money arguably gets you less of a return.

Their melting leaves poor countries with less of a buffer to protect farmers against changing weather and rainfall patterns.

But you cannot have perfect independence and interdependence: to have more of one is to have less of the other.

Over the past 30 years as a whole, however, governments have taken less of each dollar or pound pocketed by the rich.

It's a relatively more recent discovery, and it's one that scientists have even less of a chance of understanding anytime soon.

Luigi thought: 'Kill some today, kill some tomorrow, there'll be less of them, that crook's turn is bound to come. '

'We feel like. . . there is less of a sense of immediate crisis today, ' the official added.

And because no new money would be printed, inflation would be much less of a concern.

These juices are still fine to drink - they just pack less of a health punch than those at the top of the table.

As attractiveness plays less of a role, perhaps relative weight has less of an effect on satisfaction.

And Mr Obama may be hoping to make his relationship with the other "person of colour" less of a joke.

The emerging world has also increasingly been seen as less of a systemic risk as its banks are not so exposed to toxic assets.

But you'll be less of a target . If you'll wear the cloak and promise not to dawdle , I'll stop complaining .

The mix is placed in the form on the machine and is removed after a minute or less of vibration.

Her boyfriend on the other hand is less of a star and I feel he is bit like 'the salad beside the steak' so to speak.

Where it does exist, religious conflict is now far less of a top-down affair.

It could mean that less of the engineered fat would be needed to boost metabolism and help people lose weight.

Over time less of this mentality will be transmitted to the next generation.

He found those who were on a calorie-restricted diet had less of the particular hormone that regulates their metabolism.

Still, this probably represented less of a security risk than some of John F. Kennedy's liaisons.

Telomeres aren't the only reason we age, likely accounting for 10% or less of the aging process, biologists say.

Read several different types of daily news, you do not have to worry about their own less of the vocabulary.

The best way to reduce oil use is to raise the price of gasoline. People would then use less of it.

The death penalty is applied to a range of nonviolent crimes, including possession of 50 grams or less of methamphetamine or heroin.

Decreasing the scale prints more of a view or report on each page; increasing the scale prints less of a view or report on each page.

"The monopoly Google holds is less of a natural monopoly than people think, " says Dave Sifry, founder of Technorati.

If the result of this and other new rules is that ministers see less of outsiders, the influence of their mandarins is likely to grow.

Thus banks with less of it have been punished by the markets.

STEVE EMBER: The dry, winter season is the favorite of most visitors, when insects like mosquitoes are less of a problem.

To her natural levity of disposition, her enterprise brought less of terror than of pleasurable excitement.

Blending in makes you less of a target than if you announce your home country by wearing your country's flag or national colors.

The game is much less of a social experiment at times and focuses more on core gaming mechanics that are just fun.

This pond needs to be large enough for the feed-water velocity to be reduced to 2% or less of the feed flume velocity.

But how can I expect complete honesty from him if I'm asking any less of myself?

And trust me, they aren't shy about suggesting what they want to see more of -- or less of -- from Washington.

Some artists, including Bruce Springsteen, have complained that they are steadily being given less of a say about their tours.

Of course, the easiest way to avoid the troubles associated with any technology is to need less of it.

No one will think any less of you for buying your baked goods this year.

Older men are less of a threat to a younger husband, should the affair be exposed.

Now, you can spend less of your time on selection of objects and more of it on creativity.

But if you remember why you study grammar, language learning can be less of a pain.

Central bank officials say global growth is slowing fast enough that inflation is becoming less of a concern.

The operating system may also prove less of a challenge for Amazon than it did for other tablet hopefuls.

Also, the frost melts in a timely manner making the convective and evaporative losses less of an issue.

Imagine how it would be to have less of procrastination in your life.

Usually rhinoviruses cause an annoying but benign illness that looks a lot like flu, but with more runny nose and usually less of a fever.

That's much less of a problem on business-oriented networks like LinkedIn or Xing, Europe's fast-growing newcomer.

The processing charges can be saved as the less of average input heat and high precision processing.

Signature radius penalty on shield extenders have changed so meta modules in general give less of a penalty.

The electorate, we hear, wants Barack Obama to be more of an economic populist but less of an ambitious reformer.

LG also made much less of an effort than Samsung to promote its brand, focusing instead on improving its manufacturing efficiency.

Animals don't need to give their consent, and the variable dosage would be less of a concern.

Electromagnetic interference is less of a problem for digital connections.

The body can adapt and produce more or less of certain sizes of growth hormone with weight training.

For simple forms containing validation formulas, auto-fresh has far less of a performance impact.

He was a healthy boy and, as he grew older, I saw less and less of them.

Speed ruled out bzr, and Windows support is less of an issue: git appears to work reasonably well on Windows these days.

Their fundamental task is to reconcile electorates to accepting less of everything than they have had in the past.

Another round of quantitative easing is likely to deliver far less of a jolt to private spending than the first effort.

That made the annual transatlantic hedge-fund give-off between ARK and the organisation that inspired it even less of a contest than usual.

More data are coursing through everybody's brains, but less of it actually sticks.

Do that, they suggest, and the shake-out among knowledge workers becomes less of a threat and more of an opportunity.

Solar-powered water heaters cost just one-fifth, or perhaps even less, of the price in a European market.

But whatever happens. . . please don't think less of me.

Italy's economy will do far worse, but there is less of a sense of crisis because it has long been struggling anyway.

Now, though, there's less of a mystery; in both 2001 and now one sector experienced dramatic over-investment (technology then, housing now).

though to accuse someone of having unfashionable hair is less of a cuss than, say, accusing them of being a bigot.

But, overall, the emerging world will be less of a buoy to global growth than it has been hitherto.

So do not make less of a being of yourselves.