His letters become less significant.

When food is abundant, bears become less aggressive.

Traditional business leadership styles have become less effective.

Historically lax policies have become far less accommodative.

As statist models of economic development become more appealing, democratic governance will become less so.

In reality, the crisis has merely become less visible.

They may be less relevant for the larger Singapore companies.

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

Such information may become less important as experience with auctions increases.

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

When agents are bored with their work, they become less engaged and less motivated to do their jobs well.

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

Rainfall patterns will vary, and the Asian monsoon will become less reliable.

But governing the enlarged union has become more difficult and less efficient.

Moreover, with less government support, rural credit has often become prohibitively expensive.

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

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

Second, and related, the typical armed conflict has become significantly less formalized.

Replacing biomass sources by less destructive energy supplies has thus become increasingly urgent.

As economies develop and become richer, manufacturing making things inevitably becomes less important.

In a similar way, transportation can become less energy intensive without restricting mobility.

Control over song generation has become less constrained, more distributed, and more flexible.

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

Who can honestly say that public debate has become more rational and less paranoid when our governments have become more transparent?

But this mechanism lacks the common political will needed to activate it the less it is used, the less usable it will become.

People have become less admiring of Berlusconi, because the hypocrisy has gone too far.

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

In this world, networks and connectedness become an important source of relevant power.

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.

I said that Pakistan would inevitably follow suit and the world would become less safe.

Attending to the gate keeping role of party officials has become less of a necessity.

A man of peace, Obama has become no less a war president than his predecessor.

But, while we are not at that point today, the Great Depression is no less relevant for us, because it is increasingly likely that long term unemployment will become a similar impediment to recovery within the next two years.

Polls show that people today have become less deferential to authority in organizations and in politics.

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

In a world where everything has become faster, reaction is less an option than ever before.

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

However, this does not necessarily mean that Turkey will become an Islamic, must less an Islamist, country.

Walls will become less important as library staff interact more closely with users in their daily work.

This admonition is no less relevant in today's struggle against terrorism than it was some 20 years ago.

A not applicable categorization may well be sensible for some of the less relevant indicators for smaller countries.

If the world used less oil, Iran would become less threatening, because its radical rulers rely on oil revenues to purchase domestic support and pursue their regional goals.

This new appeal to religion after a long period when it was taken for granted that secularization would make religion less and less politically relevant is not an exclusively French phenomenon.

That these clogged arteries that you see on the upper left, after only a year become measurably less clogged.

China requires nothing less than another radical re engineering to become a more balanced, socially equitable, and sustainable economy.