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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

But Southern white women, who were much more likely than Southern white men to support Bill Clinton in 1996 and Al Gore in 2000, were less likely than Southern men to support Democrat John Kerry in 2004.

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

Annual output will most likely rise by less than 5 this year, down from 6.8 in 2011 and 10.1 in 2010.

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

As the economy improves, failure is less likely.

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

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

less than

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

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.

Recent research by two Canadian psychologists found that people who spent money on green products were, immediately afterwards, less likely to be generous and more likely to steal than those who bought non green stuff.

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

A young man from Moscow or St. Petersburg is six times less likely to be drafted than a young man from (much poorer) rural areas.

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.

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.

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.

She also suggested that women face indirect discrimination, arguing that it was more likely that women would be placed in pre trial detention than men, because women were less likely to be able to afford bail.

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

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

But, for now, a complete meltdown seems distinctly less likely than gradual stabilization followed by a tepid recovery, with soaring debt levels and lingering high unemployment.

First, the seven remaining fugitives are less likely to accept to surrender voluntarily than the accused who were transferred in the first part of this year.

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

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).

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

But still, I have a huge pile of fake happy childhood pictures and I'm glad they make me less likely than some people to get a divorce.

A less partisan intervention pouring in troops and airpower to separate the warring parties forcibly also has no takers, no likely UN authority, and only marginal hope of causing less harm than it would be intended to avoid.

Lack of political will may be another factor limiting implementation, though no State is likely to admit to less than wholehearted commitment against Al Qaida and Taliban terrorism.

The informal, lower magnitude conflicts of the modern era have proved far less likely to generate commentary from courts and political departments than the wars of the past.

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.

Less Than or Equals Condition

Nothing less than a full fledged peace agreement that meets the fundamental aspirations of Palestinian nationalism is likely to give him the popular legitimacy needed to confront the radicals.

Concerned that President Barack Obama will be less likely than Bush to use force to stop Iran, Israel must now contemplate its next steps should diplomacy continue to stall.

During these elections, however, States can only choose among 34 candidates or less, which makes it in fact rather likely that more than 27 will receive an absolute majority.

During the 2004 planting season, it was estimated that less than 30 per cent of arable land was cultivated in 2005 this percentage is likely to decline even further.

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

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