Moreover, European labor productivity figures are inflated by the fact that potential workers who would be less productive are much less likely to hold any jobs at all.

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.

As the economy improves, failure is less likely.

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.

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.

China is much less likely to interfere in the internal affairs of sovereign states. But, in return, it will demand that smaller, less powerful states explicitly recognize China s primacy (just as in the tributary systems of old).

China is much less likely to interfere in the internal affairs of sovereign states. But, in return, it will demand that smaller, less powerful states explicitly recognize China s primacy (just as in the tributary systems of old).

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

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.

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

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

He cannot speak English, much less German.

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

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

That pattern is much less prevalent in Europe.

Much less work has been devoted to adaptation.

Less than a decade later, much has changed.

This is much more likely in Algeria than in Egypt.

Long term trends are not likely to receive much coverage.

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.

This is indeed a milestone. But another, much more important news item has received much less attention Greece exported less in 2013 than in 2012.

First, they should push for new rules that make financial crises less likely and their consequences less severe. Left to their own devices, global financial markets provide too much credit at too cheap a price in good times, and too little credit in bad times.

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

Unfortunately, economists know much less about how to adapt regulation over time to complex systems with constantly evolving risks, much less how to design regulatory resilient institutions.

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 socioeconomic indicators for Ortega s Nicaragua are much less flattering.

But the curriculum was much less meticulous concerning interrogation techniques.

It seems likely that the acquis would lose much of its force.

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

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

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.

Germany, Japan, and several other rich countries are also doing much less than they should and much less than they promised the poor countries that they would do.

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.

That is why today s emerging markets are so much less productive than rich countries were in 1960, even though the latter were less urban, had higher birth rates and less formal schooling, and used much older technologies.

Modern terrorism is too destructive to be tolerated, much less supported.

They depended much less on foreign creditors than on domestic lenders.

Of course, farmland is much less important than other speculative assets.

So today's China is a much less equitable society than India.

California has had too much democracy and is moving towards less.

None of these governments openly speaks of socialism, much less Marxism.

But, in America s home mortgage market, this is much less common.

The longer run impact is thus different and much less negative.

But, the devaluation was much less important than is widely assumed.