Consumers pay significantly less than at traditional outlets.

This makes economies significantly less vulnerable to external shocks.

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.

Second, and related, the typical armed conflict has become significantly less formalized.

Even today, states liabilities receive considerable attention, while their asset sides receive significantly less.

Even oil supplies are likely to be significantly boosted by non conventional sources like tar sands.

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.

One way or the other, the financial crisis is likely to slow medium term Chinese growth significantly.

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.

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.

Regardless of the star's classification, its radiant energy output would be significantly less than that of the Sun.

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.

Measurement and reporting were neglected. Even today, states liabilities receive considerable attention, while their asset sides receive significantly less.

Following standard practice, interest rates can be more or less significantly positive, very close to zero, or at zero.

Until nutrition improved, their life expectancy at birth was significantly less than that of male peasants perhaps 25 years.

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.

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.

In the cortex, the number of activated microglia was significantly less when compared with other regions of the mouse brain.

Such groups are now less likely to be large, hierarchical organizations. Instead they are likely to be small groups or networks of individuals with specific skills.

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

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

Assets bubbles will not disappear, but they will be less likely to be turbocharged by leverage.

Such conduct was likely to make the Zambian plant less competitive by restricting its production capacity.

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.

Consequently, forecasts for the United Kingdom where financial sector stresses largely resembled those in the US have been significantly less accurate.

Higher equity capital requirements for banks are good for the broader economy they make financial crises (and the zombie syndrome) less likely, less severe, or both.

By minimizing associative connections with other thoughts, the threatening cognition is remembered less often and is less likely to affect self esteem or the self concept.

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.

Perhaps Italy can survive, because most of its debt is held domestically, which makes default less likely.

In principle, banks should be attracted to the proposal, because restructured loans are less likely to default.

Educated girls are less likely to fall victim to HIV AIDS, trafficking and other forms of violence.

Efforts to build peace are less likely to succeed if women do not play their rightful role.

Outside the South, female voters are less likely to be hawkish on foreign policy and more likely to support spending on health, education, and other social welfare programs.

Even with the worst of the crisis over, we are likely to find ourselves in a somewhat de globalized world, one in which international trade grows at a slower pace, there is less external finance, and rich countries appetite for running large current account deficits is significantly diminished.

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.