His letters become less significant.

Now the most popular option became the least popular.

Religious minorities have become more insecure.

Gradually, however, such scenes became less popular.

Traditional business leadership styles have become less effective.

Simulated wood appliqués became less common in the 1980s.

It s now even less attractive to watch movies there.

As countries become less reliant on traditional sources of financing, they are less likely to follow foreign diktats blindly.

Over this period, the rebel movements have become less cooperative in the talks.

Net nannies as China s Internet censors are often dubbed blocked sensitive articles less frequently.

Since then, they have looked far less safe.

Although the economic storm has become less intense, it hasn t calmed yet.

As the ambient temperature gets cooler, these collectors become less effective.

When prices are rising, the real interest rate is less than the nominal rate since the borrower repays with dollars that are worth less.

In reality, the crisis has merely become less visible.

Through his visit to Jerusalem, Sadat made more ordinary the nature of the Arab Israeli conflict.

The deliberations of the National People s Congress, for example, are becoming less ceremonial and more substantive.

Indeed, local governments appear less afraid of Beijing s bite than before.

Once their common enemy, the secularists, were out of the way, Erdoğan had less need for the movement.

Ascribed status has become less important while achieved status and education have not lost their importance.

Second, Japan s public finances are weaker than in 1995, and demographic factors are less favorable.

There is more fear today in the West, but also a little less hope in Asia.

Russia has stabilized under Putin, but its has become markedly less democratic.

But, in the last two decades, the story of the Somali nomad has become far less romantic and far more complex.

And yet global interest rates are even lower now than they were then.

The bottom line is that the investment climate for foreign direct investors is becoming less welcoming.

As a result, the likelihood of another disaster on the scale of Fukushima has been reduced.

With the decline in trade, foreign competition became less of a problem for import sensitive sectors.

Similarly, the US has become less safe since President Bush declared war on terror.

India, for example, is becoming less dependent on aid, and eventually will not need it.

Why less and less people? Because it is so expensive, so very few will be able to basically afford that.

The French now find themselves on the front line at a time when they have much less appetite for it.

The campaign reduced the French and allied invasion forces to a tiny fraction of their initial strength.

Thus, we welcome the fact that the issue of the least developed countries is now a priority of the United Nations agenda.

Employers would be more likely to offer employment if the process is made less complex than it currently is.

Today, the costs of manufacturing such items are lower in countries like Bangladesh and Vietnam than in Guangdong.

These threats, which used to have a lot of political impact, are now much less effective.

Similarly, China has become more uncoordinated, or fragmented, as its income disparities have continued to widen.

Complicating matters even more, these inflows have become less and less connected to the recipient countries economic and financial fundamentals.

Most are less stable today than they were five years ago.

Banks have less debt relative to their equity levels than they had in 2007.

LONDON I have become increasingly less hopeful about prospects for a rapid recovery from the global recession.

And especially as suburbia is becoming less centered on the family, the family households, there's a real hunger for more third places.

The purchasing power of national income per person in Nigeria is now 50 lower relative to Britain than in 1980.

The share of net investment in GNP is now the second lowest in all OECD countries.