As the economy improves, failure is less likely.

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.

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

By minimizing associative connections with other thoughts, the threatening cognition is remembered less often and is less likely to affect self esteem or the self concept.

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

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

Resection is also indicated for those with a thymoma, but it is less likely to improve the MG symptoms.

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

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.

Perhaps Italy can survive, because most of its debt is held domestically, which makes default less likely.

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

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

As things stand now, the right is likely to win the first round, but with less than 50 .

Being less developed, the thorax of an adolescent is likely more prone to this injury given the circumstances.

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

Because the expected gridlock in parliament would make reforms less likely, companies might hold off on investment, while consumers would be more likely to keep their wallets closed, because official policy would be even less clear than it is now.

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

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.

Meanwhile, the tenuous status quo in Israel and Palestine is crumbling. With a two state solution less likely than ever, the area is likely to experience the creeping consolidation of a one state reality.

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

In conclusion, nuclear war is less likely than before, but by no means out of the question, and it's not survivable.

Even more important for a central banker managing a crisis is a commitment to measures that make another crisis less likely.

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

The result is a citizenry that is less likely to interpret events, even attacks, in simplistic and often counter productive us versus them terms.

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

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

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

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

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.

Generally speaking domestic assault is treated as a matter less likely to require outside intervention, and when intervention is undertaken, the punishment tends to be less severe than if it had not been domestic violence (Mason, 2000).

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.

Repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen.

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

Assets bubbles will not disappear, but they will be less likely to be turbocharged by leverage.

Such conduct was likely to make the Zambian plant less competitive by restricting its production capacity.

The more secure the borrowing, the more likely the investor is to get its loan repaid and the less risk is involved in making the loan.

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.

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.

In addition, people would be far less likely to complain that their money is being wasted or misused if they chose where it went.

The life of the soda lime scrubber is likely to be less than this and so will be the limiting factor of the dive.

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.

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.