It is less able, however, to withstand looming budget cuts.

The United States, which best embodies ultimate power, is less willing and less able to exercise it.

But such policies will be less and less able to guarantee peace and stability in the future.

It is now more, not less, able to deal with terrorism.

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

But they can reduce interest rates by eliminating the perceived risk of sovereign default. Banks will be able to borrow from one another for less, and thus able to lend to firms for less.

I didn t feel I was any less able than my classmates from private schools.

People with few resources or alternatives are also less able to recover from disasters.

Much less will Brazil be able to demand from its neighbors a commitment to sustainable development.

But safer, less indebted banks are better able to continue lending without becoming distressed or needing support.

The label would be designed for those who are less motivated and or able to read these prospectuses.

Committing to massive cuts in carbon emissions will leave future generations poorer and less able to adapt to challenges.

By the end of this year, we'll be able to sequence the three million bits of information in your genome in less than a day and for less than 1,000 euros.

Poor people tend to be more exposed to threats and are less able to absorb the shocks inherent in disasters.

And restructuring weakens banks, which generally hold large portfolios of government bonds, thus making them less able to finance the economy.

Domestic working animals that were no longer able to work were slaughtered but not particularly appetizing and therefore were less valued as meat.

Finally, thanks to IMF involvement, even less advanced countries would be able to take advantage of the best international expertise to address the problem.

The spread of information means that informal networks are undercutting the monopoly of traditional bureaucracy, with all governments less able to control their agendas.

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, who are generally less mobile than men, may not be able to access health centres even when a universal health care system is available.

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.

Emerging and developing countries are demanding a stronger voice in the IMF, but they also seem to be suggesting that they would like it to be less intrusive and less able to impose conditionality while simultaneously providing more and cheaper financing.

So we are stuck with an unsatisfactory status quo , in which NATO casts about for a role, Americans are less and less able to afford to be the world s policemen, and Europeans struggle to find a way to define their common interests.

Since 1995 most countries have been able to report the number of students enrolled in primary and secondary school, but less than a quarter have reported school attendance.

Neurosurgical advances always pursue minimalism. As in any other surgical field, the less the procedure interferes with the body, the less likely it is to affect the patient s quality of life adversely, and the sooner the patient will be able to return to normal activity.

Cancer pain patients who accept that pain will persist and nevertheless are able to engage in a meaningful life were less susceptible to catastrophizing and depression in one study.

But the availability of long term capital appears to have been impaired, as traditional providers of equity to infrastructure projects, for example, have become less able or willing to invest.

A very small proportion (less than 0.01 ) of the total lymphocytes are able to bind to a particular antigen, which suggests that only a few cells will respond to each antigen.

Although, less severe, Hurricane Emily wiped out the post Ivan gains that we were able to make in agriculture and food production, and further severely undermined the agricultural and housing stocks.

Less investment will mean less capital deepening.

We get into even smaller micro robots that will eventually autonomously move through your system again and be able to do things that surgeons can't do in a much less invasive manner.

Many recent college graduates are losing as well, because they are less easily able to find jobs that best enhance their skills and thereby add to their long term productivity and earnings.

There would be more democracy, less oppression more freedom, less terrorism more growth, less poverty.

Less effort, you're less persistent, and so on.

Sami started hearing from Layla less and less.

For a president bent on implementing reforms, less can be more less aggressiveness and less ego.

This means that whether a government is big or small is less important than how well it manages the PRI that is, whether the state is able to ensure high quality market order.

This is not, needless to say, because Europeans crave the rigors of America s less cosseted social conditions, but because it s the only way that European governments will be able to stay afloat financially.

At the same time, Sarkozy has been able to emerge as the natural leader of the right partly because Chirac has been less of a liability than many people, including the experts, predicted.

It turns out, most people over 50 feel better, are less stressed, are less hostile, less anxious.

Why might a carbon tax be viable now, when it never has been before? The point is that, when people can visualize a problem, they are far less able to discount or ignore it.

And the higher the debt, the less likely it is that the country will be able to achieve the mix of belt tightening and growth that would enable it to generate the necessary surpluses.

Stars less massive than 0.25 , called red dwarfs, are able to fuse nearly all of their mass as fuel while stars of about 1 can only use about 10 of their mass as fuel.

Where host Governments are less able to meet these demands, the United Nations will take additional steps to ensure that mandated activities continue without compromising the safety and security of the staff members concerned.

So, traffic keeps flowing, so that means less braking, which means less accelerating, less gas and less pollution, less time wasted, and that partly accounts for Europe's better efficiency than we have in the United States.