In the West, hacking is more or less considered part of a geeky and rather privileged culture.

And then you change the photograph he's shooting at, and it suddenly becomes rather grim and maybe less accessible. .

No less than President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) himself made a plea to the abductor to release her sooner rather than later.

In such a situation, the crisis will have triggered a social rather than an economic domino effect, which is no less worrisome.

You ll lose even more weight if you go to whole foods and less fat, and you ll enhance your health rather than harming it.

A less nihilistic view is that the Yukos affair suggests above all a series of improvisations by Putin rather than a coherent agenda.

It was likewise decided to maintain for the present the term Millennium Development Goals rather than adopt a broader but less familiar nomenclature.

They were suspicious of executive power, and thought that the president should have rather less discretionary power than the various King Georges of the time.

By contrast, growth prospects in Europe today are rather dim, and interest payments, even for Greece or Italy, account for less than 20 of total revenues.

There is no equally organized and active demand for evidence that all of these subsidies are distortionary, waste money, and make companies less rather than more competitive.

Will it make governments more opaque rather than more transparent? Are we headed for an era of more paranoia about secrets, including less sharing of useful information?

This means less control and direct oversight of the bureaucracy, and an increased incentive to spend the day thinking up big plans rather than concentrating on targeted improvements.

The economic impact of politics in the US, while important, will be less dynamic absent a more cooperative Congress, politics will mute policy responses rather than fuel greater activism.

This would allow the use of a less power hungry fan instead of a compressor, and the fan could run on batteries rather than relying on the power grid.

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.

But, while the sense of efficiency that attracted the mendicant Christian orders, the Dominicans and Franciscans, to staff the original universities was rather different, it is no less relevant today.

This new era of industrialization brought changes where farming can be done with less persons, therefore children were no longer to be viewed as economic assets but rather as liabilities.

The lack of an analytical rather than chronological report means that questions affecting all of humanity are understood by less than one tenth of the membership of the United Nations.

Officials could encourage employers to offer women permanent, full time positions, rather than all too common temporary contracts, which mean lower pay, less stability, and a lack of opportunity for advancement.

On the contrary, it may have prompted the arrest of a lower level indictee for crimes in Darfur. In short, more law, rather than less, is needed to help stem the violence.

The French have always been less likely to go into debt when they pay with plastic, they tend to use debit cards, drawing on funds they already have, rather than credit cards.

These effects are different from support in that they are less a function of the nature of immediate social ties but rather of the ties these immediate ties provide to other people.

Less investment will mean less capital deepening.

But, because their legitimacy stems from a religious or even divine source, rather than on a fiction of democratic support, as was the case of the Arab presidents, their rule is less questionable.

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.

Those who had been convicted since the opening of the centre, and had been found to be in possession of less than five amphetamine tablets, had been sentenced to rehabilitation treatment rather than imprisonment.

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

Worse still, labor has been displaced from more productive tradable activities (in manufacturing) to less productive informal activities (services). In most Latin American countries, structural change has served to reduce rather than promote economic growth.

Receive my instruction rather than silver knowledge rather than choice gold.

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.

Here one encounters less collective hope and less individual fear.

But, while donors and their taxpayers might be willing to make long term commitments for such a purpose, there is likely to be rather less appetite for making commitments which would seem to be never ending.

UN Habitat has also introduced shelter policy elements into post disaster and post conflict situations at the early stages of humanitarian assistance rather than later during the reconstruction phase when policy interventions may be less effective.

Its purpose is to prevent a child from being afforded less protection by society and the State because he or she is stateless, rather than to afford an entitlement to a nationality of one's own choice.

The next one should be Eastern rather than Western, an economist rather than a politician, and a visionary rather than a tactician.

There are Tunisians who want less rights, less freedom and less democracy to fight those who oppose freedom and democracy

China s technology inroads are usually less dramatic, but no less telling.

Let me emphasize at once that our purpose is not to oppose the aspirants, but rather to support the principle that widening the circle for the few who seek special status, no matter how worthy their candidacies, would make the Security Council less accountable for its conduct, more remote from the membership and less representative of the world's regions.

Rather than owning up to the economic slowdown that current account deficits signal accepting a little less growth today for more sustainable growth in the future politicians and policymakers opt for risky growth gambits that ultimately backfire.

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This sterility and inertia make Europe less and less interesting for Americans.

Currently in Haiti we are speaking less and less of security problems.