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.

China will likely have to settle for lower growth.

These women also are likely to have an earlier menopause.

Most likely, he would have done worse.

Indeed, excessive wage deflation is likely to have negative effects on productivity.

A military strike would likely have worse consequences.

Compared to youth not harassed online, victims are more likely to have social problems.

Extreme weather events such as hurricanes and typhoons are likely to increase. Flooding in Europe is likely to intensify, a process that may already have begun.

And in all cases we have to ask what's the more likely explanation?

The answer is likely to lie in what Europeans have dubbed variable geometry.

In fact, all banks are likely to have upped their CRA compliant lending.

This is the kind of chaotic environment where ideas were likely to come together, where people were likely to have new, interesting, unpredictable collisions people from different backgrounds.

Germany s move toward renewable energy is likely to have a much broader positive impact.

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

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

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

Europe would have to pay an unacceptably high price, and NATO s future would likely be jeopardized.

Granted, the future is unknown we have no crystal ball to predict the Bovespa s likely path.

Food prices, which have shot up 83 , are not likely to start falling until after 2009.

With sufficient data, we do have methods to identify the likely causes of an economic phenomenon.

Over a trillion barrels of reserves have been proven, and more are likely to be found.

The United States is likely to have a different problem with consumer led growth in China.

As a result, missions are more likely to have a duration of longer than three years.

Employees who have a direct stake in a company s profitability are likely to be more motivated and engaged, and turnover is likely to be lower. This intuition is confirmed by empirical research.

So a nuclear accident in Europe would likely have cross border consequences.

BRUSSELS Two years have passed since the financial crises erupted, and we have only started to realize how costly it is likely to be.

States have the greatest capabilities, but non state actors are more likely to initiate a catastrophic attack.

And, though US brokered peace talks with Palestine have resumed, they are likely to end in failure.

Household linens are most likely to have stains from organic sources such as food, blood, and soil.

The origin of the yellow ribbons seems likely to have come from out of the Puritan heritage.

Efforts to strengthen the law have met with failure in recent years, but minor reforms seem likely.

(b) Retain these staff, as missions are likely to have a duration of longer than three years

Yet this is likely to have little or no effect on Sharon's intention to carry through with the plan.

According to Iraq, over fishing by shrimp trawlers is likely to have had the highest impact on shrimp catches.

However, unlike fully developed tumors, they are not likely to have acquired many genetic changes and are therefore unlikely to have gained resistance to PARP inhibitors.

We have heard many such stories in recent days. Brutal as they sound, worse is likely to come.

Oil and other commodity prices are likely to fall further, and oil and gas production have already stagnated.

But the generals, who have the final say on military matters, are likely to preserve the status quo.

By contrast, Syrian President Bashar al Assad s regime is likely to have been ousted before the year s end.

Egypt was ruled from Thebes during this time and the papyrus is likely to have originated from there.

Low income rates have also been on the decline for those groups more likely to experience low income.

But that is arguably much more likely to happen when soldiers have become inured to lawlessness in their own ranks.

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.

This would likely have repeatedly sterilized the planet, had life appeared before that time.

This is likely to continue.