They are posh, they're wealthy, they're less likely to have outdoor jobs, they're less likely to do manual labor, they have better social support, they're less likely to smoke so for a whole host of fascinating, interlocking social, political and cultural reasons, they are less likely to have skin wrinkles.

While people are talking, they are less likely to act precipitately.

By contrast, older users (1) are less likely to do stupid things in the first place, and (2) are less likely to do so in range of a camera.

They are also less likely to be self employed and half as likely as men to be employers.

In the public domain, women are less likely to achieve senior positions.

Some disasters are less likely than others, and some remedies are more costly than others.

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

Other venues of information are likely to be less useful to the general public.

Such groups are now less likely to be large, hierarchical organizations. Instead they are likely to be small groups or networks of individuals with specific skills.

Other oil exporting ESCWA member countries are less likely to favour rapid government expenditure increases.

On the other hand, two people are more likely to be influential than one person as they are less likely to be seen as strange or eccentric.

People from ethnic minorities are less likely to suffer from high cholesterol levels, but more likely to suffer from high blood pressure and obesity.

If women have access to hospitals and clinics, they are less likely to die in childbirth.

Moreover, European labor productivity figures are inflated by the fact that potential workers who would be less productive are much less likely to hold any jobs at all.

As the economy improves, failure is less likely.

In principle, banks should be attracted to the proposal, because restructured loans are less likely to default.

Educated girls are less likely to fall victim to HIV AIDS, trafficking and other forms of violence.

Efforts to build peace are less likely to succeed if women do not play their rightful role.

Higher equity capital requirements for banks are good for the broader economy they make financial crises (and the zombie syndrome) less likely, less severe, or both.

We are likely to see some spending consolidation, but less than in Great Britain and other European countries.

2) Escape loss variants (cancer vaccines that target just one tumor antigen are likely to be less effective.

Large sums, while not critical to the success of an attack, are now less likely to be available.

Outside the South, female voters are less likely to be hawkish on foreign policy and more likely to support spending on health, education, and other social welfare programs.

As their operations are less visible, it is likely that their outward FDI, and therefore China s total, is understated.

They are less likely than members of the professional political class to allow political calculations to influence their views.

These patients have a higher risk of hospitalization and longer hospital stays, are less likely to comply with treatment, are more likely to make errors with medication, and are more ill when they seek medical care.

Unfortunately, the positive outcome appears to be the less likely one.

Basically, there are two possibilities, one positive and one negative. Unfortunately, the positive outcome appears to be the less likely one.

They are less likely to get cancer or to die of heart attacks they will probably stay slim and live longer.

Girls do better in school, and are less likely to repeat a year or be transferred to special education than boys.

As a result, they are less likely to destabilize the global financial system or impose harm on most shareholders and the public.

That decline is likely to continue, because nearly 30 of homes with mortgages are worth less than the value of the mortgage.

Bad perceptions only complicate future peace efforts, making a breakthrough even less likely.

An educated child was less likely to practice or be subject to discrimination.

In poor households, they are also likely to receive less food than boys, placing their physical health and development at even greater risk.

But safer, less indebted banks are better able to continue lending without becoming distressed or needing support. As a result, they are less likely to destabilize the global financial system or impose harm on most shareholders and the public.

For that same reason, women employees are not entitled to equivalent family allowances and health benefits and are less likely to get same career development opportunities as men.

In the same way, the JOBS Act will ease life for some deserving people and most likely attract many more who are less deserving.

But if governments are going to pay the economy s hospital bills, they must act to make it less likely that hospitalization will be needed.

These children are more likely to start school later than the prescribed age, less likely to be developmentally ready or well prepared for school, and more prone to drop out or fail to achieve in school.

This makes them safer, because they are more able to absorb losses, and less likely to become zombie banks (which do not make sensible loans).

Women in a cross section of developing countries are 50 less likely to use the Internet than men, according to the World Wide Web Foundation.

But the bill that finally emerges from Congress is likely to have less ambitious targets.

We chose those locations because they were less likely to be targeted by air strikes.

The EU s future enlargement to adjacent territories the essence of its foreign policy in the last 15 years will become less and less likely.