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'We'd rather sacrifice growth than do anything that would jeopardize our customers' interests, much less be a part of any blatant fraud.

Because I can almost certainly guarantee you, that what you think you're capable of, is much less than what you're really capable of.

In fact, astronomy cannot pinpoint such a "galactic alignment" to within a year, much less a day.

To see how much less land birch would have covered, they used elephants as a proxy.

The heart puts a bit lighter, again a bit lighter, much less to set themselves up heart knot, state of mind is calm.

Not long ago, if you didn't answer your home phone, that was that -- nobody knew if you were alive or dead, much less where you might be.

Yesterday Next raised its profit forecast for the current year, after sales fell much less than it had feared.

If people could tell you in advance what they want, there would never have been a wheel, a lever, much less an airplane or a TV set.

Still, he's much less angst-ridden than I was; he has no fears that his parents' marriage might break up.

That will cause the patient to suffer, but just a little and much less than before.

Today's airline environment with its downsizing, outsourcing, long hours, and pay cuts make it a much less attractive career option.

How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?

Jefferson believed in a creator, but not in the divinity of Jesus, much less the virgin birth, which he thought only as a "fable" .

I have never seen him in the same room as a beer so I obviously know him much less well than I thought.

Good luck trying to make a planet, much less a person, out of that.

So, tips will no doubt net much less during the summer and the company be less interesting.

Until now, physicists didn't know how much less accurate it was.

If I were to try to read, much less to answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well as be closed for any other business.

Our ability to climb fast provided much more flexibility in our egress routes and made our actions much less predictable to the enemy.

The interests of the shareholders and the interests of the bank management and employees are much less aligned, if at all.

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

But in 2009 profits were much less than expected and angry partners began to leave. Defections continued during the recession.

To lose that fat in a week, you have to burn off at least that amount in calories or eat that much less.

How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?

When you are turning or waiting to enter the main road keep a special look-out for cycles, particularly as they are much less easy to see.

So much of what we waste our energy on will not matter even a year from now, much less for eternity.

A year ago, Dr Fox would have had much less hope of surviving such a controversy.

How much less I would have to pay if I had not bought the most expensive item~!

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 2009 profits were much less than expected and angry partners began to leave.

Training is often much less effective than expected.

By how much less is it expanding today, compared to, say, a couple of billion years ago?

Sweden, however, was an anomaly. It had a very high number of Nobel laureates but its people consumed much less chocolate on average.

We were surprised by how much less we could live on and how many things we used to buy that were unnecessary.

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.

Barsa said he was still negotiating with an unidentified buyer from Denver whom he said was offering much less than a fair price.

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

Motorcycles are much less easy to be seen than other vehicles, but may be going just as fast.

And the banks that came up short will have to raise much less than some analysts had expected as recently as a few days ago.

The Wall was no place for a woman, much less a girl of noble birth.

We hear much more now about how much of an effective manager Stalin was, much more than in the 1990s, and much less about the repression.

So, tips will no doubt net much less during the summer and the company will be less interesting.

Tom: Why not quit your job? Kids do better with stay at home moms. It would be so much less stressful.

It is visible as a child laboriously climbs a flight of stairs or tries to sit at a classroom desk, much less rise out of it.

I could not answer for my feelings for a week in advance, much less to the end of my life.

The animals that had not run before moving in with the mean mice showed much less neuronal activity in these portions of the brain.

We've never thought of him as a radical socialist politician, much less a leader of the revolution.

But such "downcycling" tends to be much less profitable than genuine recycling, and much more vulnerable to price swings.

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

Finally , it is less than half the price of any Greenline clarinet , and suffers much less in terms of intonation .

He did not believe in the terrible aspect of Kali, much less in Her benign aspect.

However, in daily life, mother is usually considered the primary care giver, while father is much less involved in fostering the children.

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 helpless creatures who had not asked to be born at all, much less to be part of the irresponsible someone's family.

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.

Many of the indigenous leaders he was planning to meet with had never heard of him before, much less seen his movie.

But you can find it this year in the U. S. at $299, and in a year or two maybe much less.

Forget how much less code there is, it's easier to tell what the data-driven test is testing.

Thirteen years on, it has come to be a much less forgivable name for any old fool in possession of an ego and a blog.

Fewer animals means less meat of course. Just how much less, no one really knows.

The injection of government funds would be much less problematic if it were applied to the equity rather than the balance sheet.

President Wilson, with whom he had not the same intimate relations, is treated much less sympathetically.

I may know more about art than I let on but I know so much less than all of my colleagues, and I am very respectful of that.

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

Imagine how much less inclined they will be to do so if they are frightened by a Chinese economic slowdown.

if I didn't need your information, how much less do I need an explanation. the fact is , I need nothing but your mercy.

Moreover, if the union rejected it, he said, the owners would revert to a previous and much less favourable offer.

He claimed he could not think of any other hardcover nonfiction books in 2010 that had sold even one million copies, much less two.

How much less do I have to pay if I don't buy the most expensive item?

'Internet censorship is a challenge that no particular industry -- much less any single company -- can tackle on its own, ' he said.

By the end of his matches he could barely limp around the court, much less move with the agility and speed the sport requires.

He doesn't realize how much less effort it takes to achieve that status!

If you were of an observant turn it might have struck you that he blinked much less often than most of us.

This was milled into a powder, which could be used to produce a much less fatty drink.

Notice how much less interesting that is to us than the bit about the Eyak and leaves and feathers.

Most importantly, the overall impact on emissions from investment in renewables could turn out to be much less than meets the eye.

But will God really dwell on earth ? The heavens , even the highest heaven, cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have built!

''Kids do better with stay-at-home moms, It would be so much less stressful, ''

But I'm guessing that it was all much less funny for you at the time.

Gitlin says the Qube costs just a bit more than a police patrol car, making it a much less expensive alternative to a manned helicopter.

While studying warships, Fuller realized that they weighed much less than buildings, yet were able to do much more.

Prior to the Europeans have been used to control the direction of the side paddle, much less the use of the rudder.

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.

Unaccustomed to sharing a room with anybody, much less a stranger, Madeleine felt that Jennifer was a little too quick with her intimacies.

"I don't have any money for food, much less to celebrate my birthday, " she said gloomily, having climbed down drowsily from her bed.

"There has not been a double burial found in the Neolithic period, much less two people hugging. "

Lennon received the ball much less frequently than Bale, but as he was given more freedom, he was far more creative.

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

A suit costing much less would be just as warm and would cover the wearer's body just as well.

I did not even see him, still less (= much less) shake hands with him.

It was also very slow going to begin with, which meant much less time for editing my final translation.

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

Last month, by contrast, VAT remained at 15%, petrol prices stayed put and retailers discounted much less than a year earlier.

Relative to its size, China has a much less mature fixed-income market than most of its major emerging-market peers as well.

The obvious induce for this could possibly be the actuality that this kind of handbags hold much less high-priced cost tags.

China's non-government sector tends to be much less radical than its counterparts elsewhere.

Because oil now costs much less, many have had to write down the value of those contracts, even if they are not due to be settled for years.

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.

Rapid population growth is due not so much less than the birth rate rose as a result of the decline in mortality.

Although solids expand much less than liquid or gases, the small increase can add up to a lot, when there are long lengths of rail.

If the president had said what he did in a single statement, and explained himself better, the fuss would have been much less.

His eye is huge and a horse, with much less eye, can see in the dark. Once I could see quite well in the dark.

But despite the fact that China is much less conservative today than it used to be, many brides are still judged the same way.

Use of a personal workstation tends to be much less predictable than use of a server.

But one gets the sense that not everyone acknowledges the reality of that life, much less approves of it.

Second, Rogers says, audiences don't bring anywhere near the background journalists do to any kind of story, much less to complicated ones.

However, it is much less well placed to provide the sort of counselling and other forms of support that many of these children will need.

But as saving rates rise, multiplier and accelerator effects might interact to produce a much less orderly outcome than anticipated.

So in many ways the world has become a much less lonely place in the four decades since the first Lonely Planet guidebook.

Overall, China's prospects are much less uncertain than a year ago at the peak of the financial crisis, the report said.

Taken as a whole the genetic differences between groups are much less than those between the individuals in those groups or "races" .

Actually, she had altered much less than I.

In a test group that merely held hands, chemical changes were similar, but much less pronounced, she said.

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

Such a cut would increase the deficit by much less than the current stimulus bill, while likely producing a larger boost to employment.

In his college days God knew he wasn't ready to teach, much less to pastor or preach.

Nor did a popular search engine, Google, show signs that it might be a lucrative business, much less a new technology superpower.

One of the things that they really did first was to eat-out much less and start cooking at home, cooking a much more balanced diet.

I don't measure up to my own standard for myself, much less God's standard of perfection.

836 people died during Katrina many think the number could have been much less but the Mayor did not enforce the evacuation.

It has been finding that the system brings effect much less good as expected due to the serious defectives of the system itself.

If the pilots go well, Google. org plans to scale up fast; at the moment it is spending much less than Messrs Brin and Page promised.

Combined with #8 (seeing opportunities), and doing market research, the risk is much less than you think.

Compared with you, the number of the list of my friends is much less than yours.

The front part of the brain is much less active; this is the center of our higher level thinking processes like organization and memory.

Bus 100 brings you through the center of this city and by many of its most spectacular sites - for much less than the price of a tour bus.

Yet foreign policy does not always admit the moral point of view -- much less the legal point of view.

Selling for so much less than comparable voice recorders, this USB digital voice and telephone recorder is a mean entertainment unit too!

You could't pay her to send a chrismas card much less visit.

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

On Everyman, you get something of the same effect, but much less so.

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

Much less than this would make it harder for the authorities to keep meeting the aspirations of the population.

Canada requires any mortgage with a less than 20 percent down payment to be insured, and those mortgages are much less common there.

But it's hard to imagine too many other figures in world football with the guts to take such a bold step, much less to pull it off.

Were it not for the additional funding provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, it would be much less.

"There is thus much less room left now for further softening to still leave growth above trend, " he said in a report.

much less do they take them out for dinner, or around on the golf course while whey develop a sense of trust .

We do advise, however, against getting any of these equations tattooed on your body, much less branded.

If their ability to generate long-term profits has fallen at all, it has declined much less than their stock prices.

Other pens may be much less expensive, lighter, require less maintenance and would be less sorely missed if lost (if missed at all).

But the whole is so much less than the sum of its parts that it is unlikely to work.

Careful analysis of these journeys suggests that Ottery St. Catchpole must be much less than 150 miles from London.

An informed person is much less susceptible to this sort of propaganda.

Half an hour later , there was no sign of even the smallest grass snake , much less a cobra .

If there were to be no future generations, there would be much less for us to feel to guilty about.

Workers are guaranteed a minimum of four weeks' holidays a year whereas Americans' vacations are much less certain.

Most economists believe that the direct effect, at least, is fairly small, although they are much less sure about indirect effects.

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

He added that the proposed arrangement would be much less risky than having pure plutonium stored and transported around the world.

'Unfortunately, we won't get it, ' as the risk of deflation is much less now than a year ago.

For that reason, accounting professors can expect to earn much less than their students who major in business.

A side benefit of this practice can be a much less expensive solution as well.

It takes an unusual degree of social confidence to take a solo strut into a bar, much less to enjoy the experience.

This will be much less natural life of sweet and waves, however, or at least be quiet pandas privacy.

for one sees plainly that he often says much less than he would say, if he might.

A casual backyard barbecue is going to be much less stressful than a more formal sit-down meal.

He's too shy to ask a stranger the time, much less to speak to a room full of people.

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

I become conscious of you looks very happiness. such , in the my mind's for yours sense of quilt can much less. done, I only say here.

Ductility of a metal is usually much less when hot than when cold.

Early versions of these muffins tend to be less sweet and much less varied in ingredients than their contemporary forms.

The resistivity contours appear much less diagnostic of anomalous bodies below the surface.

He has no scholarship, to say nothing of (=much less) experience.

Those whose early home life had been troubled remembered mom as much less caring and supportive after oxytocin, versus placebo.

The headline valuation number matters much less than some of the term's details, specifically the liquidation preference.

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

The east-African country has been wracked by warfare and has no functioning government - much less a navy to patrol its shores.

Therefore it cannot be measured even within the mind of each individual, much less calculated or measured from one person to another.

We're a long way from being able to say that, much less use that insight to treat people.

Much less certain, however, is whether Iran's international posture will turn out to be any more flexible under Mr Salehi.

But they have to stay small, and thus contribute much less than they might otherwise do to a country's prosperity.

Remember, if the IRS weren't taking so much from the wealthy who have earned it, there would be that much less for Wall Street bailouts.

We could do with much, much less -- and I know, I've been a vegetarian for a long time.

Now the national broadcast networks will agree to devote only a few hours to prime-time coverage of today's much less gripping conventions.

M, also a pensioner and a very non-technical computer user, was much less confident about anything to do with computers.

These two types of problems can be difficult simply to understand, much less resolve.

Not to be seen and applauded, much less to get influence over them; but out of pure sympathy and compassion we must give them help.

Early-evening fatigued, city-churned, they did not want to hear talk of funerals, much less help pay for them.

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

We must not think of this writer as a radical socialist politician, much less a leader of a revolution.

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

Everyone knew that a hit was all but impossible because Shay didn't even know how to hold the bat properly, much less connect with the ball.

But some solutions are much less costly than replacing a whole pipe system, he said.

All of which will have to be achieved against a much less benign global background and a cynical and alienated public.

There is no certainty that an agreement can be struck, much less sold to voters who have so long listened to the generals.

So a rise of, say 10% in Chinese prices would produce a rise of much less than 10% in the prices consumers pay.

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.

The young men who work in the mine make a few U. S. dollars a day, and the children much less.

The result was a broken government that, in its later years, achieved much less than it could or should have.

The key is to restate any hard problem that requires a lot of software into a simple problem that requires much less.

Much less anxious for the quiet, hope mountain view to see the clouds. Human regardless of cold and warm brown suit, burrow line at.

But she is much less popular than she was, and her government has found it hard to shake off a sense of drift.

We know you wouldn't be able to take the thanks personally, and thanks means so much less when the task is actually completed.

Natalie had never dated a woman before, much less announced she was going to marry one.

I literally knew one girl who didn't believe that she had time to have friends, much less an active social life.

Debt restructurings are quite likely, any sort of break-up much less so.

I didn't even speak to him; much less discuss the reconstruction of your school with him.

It's fairly unlikely that you will ever need to perform such a computation on any Web application, much less a mobile Web application.

From earlier results using much less data, the positron cloud seemed to be spherical and centred on the centre of the galaxy.

The blending volume of negative density difference displacement is much less than that of the positive density difference displacement.

It has definitely gone global, with good presence in Europe and Asia, but its hold of the market is much less obvious in these territories.

I have not so much as heard of him, much less know him.

It would be so much less stressful.

In Washington, the Obama administration is much less interested in reaching out to renegade regimes than it was three years ago.

At the age of fourteen I had never even been on a train, much less an aircraft.

He and Dykeman have found a method to calculate the resonant frequencies with much less memory.

the man's satisfaction to work is much less than females when they begin to work, there will be a little change until they get fired.

His friends were very happy to see him and one noticed that his nystagmus was much less.

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is the only blank space of petroleum exploration in a large scale. Biru basin is much less explored.

For moments Nim sat helpless, numb , unable to comprehend, much less believe, what he had just heard.

Strong body odour is usually much less attractive than body scent you can just detect.

But his own advisers seem much less gung-ho, at least for now.

Perhaps a key adaptive advantage of the angiosperm is their ability to construct wood with much less expenditure of energy per unit weight.

There are still going to be a few random events like border friction, but they will be much less common now with the new system.

Also, the crew of a new ship is inexperienced and is much less effective in a battle than a veteran crew!

When he looked for another job, he found that all the jobs he was qualified for paid much less than he was making.

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

Movie Palace is much less comfortable than I thought.

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

But this decline, she said, was much less than the 23 percent drop in total U. S. exports to the world.

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.

Even Bill Gates III failed to swallow up the Internet, and there is much less reason to believe that Hollywood will succeed.

They also spend much less time making eye contact, at least when a person without power is talking.

So far, economic commentary has focused on the onset of globalization with much less attention paid to the forces of localization.

The rate of day rain was much less than normal in all year and summer half year, but greater in winter half year.

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

Like most of the cities at the top of the league, it is much less crowded than the long- established metropolis of London.

The average family with a rectangular glass tank for smaller, not more support, and should not be much less.

The only way that can happen is if those vouchers are worth much less than the cost of health insurance.

The age-genius curve among their female counterparts is much less pronounced; it does not peak or vary as much as a function of age.

Can you learn to be content with what you do have, realizing that so many other people have much much less than you?

and the various states were not allowed to complain of, much less interfere with, the policy of their neighbors.

Because the quantity of the lubrication oil-fat is much less than the fuel oil, the oil-fat always been provided by hands primitively .

Rarely have two such impressive pieces of scholarship appeared at all, much less on the same day. It's a wonderful time to be alive!

In that case the infringement ought to be regarded as much less serious than the Commission believed it to be.

This kind of paper was as soft and light as silk but much less expensive.

If the deployment plan is part of the archive, the chances of it getting lost are much less.

However, Latin American manufacturers are also much less productive than they might be.

The scholar he went on to say: " external and internal virtual real, smoke much less, loss. "

Sustaining the application of disciplines and practices is, in many respects, much less straightforward than adopting them initially.

Having reviewed the charges for running the ant's department , ant' the lion found out that the production was much less than before.

Technology changes so rapidly that no scientist or engineer can keep up with his own field, much less with technology in general.

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

Due to the sharp reduction of the number of the element, the time needed for processing this problem is much less.

My own experience of the Travel Cure was much less dramatic, but still testament to how travel can help save our lives.

Governments distinguish much less than they used to on the basis of marriage.

Parents are much less willing to take on debt than they were and much more willing to look abroad for better deals.