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

South Korea is hugely dependent on exports to advanced countries, Brazil much less so.

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.

The US response to the so called Arab Spring, for example, has lacked political conviction, much less strategic direction.

He cannot speak English, much less German.

That pattern is much less prevalent in Europe.

Much less work has been devoted to adaptation.

Less than a decade later, much has changed.

Less effort, you're less persistent, and so on.

Your skin gets more blood flow when you change your lifestyle, so you age less quickly. Your skin doesn't wrinkle as much.

When the crisis hit home, Western economists were much less willing to accept that pain was necessary, or so the explanation goes.

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.

As The Washington Post recently reported, dishwashers now use 45 less power than they did two decades ago, and refrigerators 51 less. So how much energy do Americans use in their homes today?

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.

Having initially suffered from the financial crisis as much as Western countries did (indeed, more in terms of output and trade), these historically less robust economies staged a remarkable comeback so much so that they became the engine of global growth.

The socioeconomic indicators for Ortega s Nicaragua are much less flattering.

But the curriculum was much less meticulous concerning interrogation techniques.

And this happens in every pair of identical twins separated at birth ever studied but much less so with fraternal twins separated at birth.

Objects with less than a certain kinetic energy are slowed down so much by the atmosphere that they do not create an impact crater.

While CFLs are more expensive to buy, they are much cheaper over their lifespan, because they use much less energy (even more so with the cost of CO2 factored into taxes on electricity).

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.

There is also the National Personal Transportation Survey (later National Household Travel Survey), conducted every five years or so, but with much less spatial detail.

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.

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.

Flat panels have been around much longer and are less expensive.

However, these are much less abundant than the primary chemical elements.

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.

He earned less from cotton last year than the year before, and much less than he earned five years ago.

And I thought molecular weight sounded much less nerdy than molar mass.

Israel is not the Jewish people and much less the Jewish religion.

But Europe doesn t have months, much less years, to resolve its crisis.

Banks known to be healthy can borrow at much less than 5.25 .

Turkey is also much less worried about its future than Israel is.

It is chocolate with no milk or much less than milk chocolate.

It tightens costs, and outsources work as much as possible, so its workforce is paid less than Arcelor s employees and is less stable. Moreover, Arcelor represented a perfect takeover target most of its capital belongs to diverse shareholders.

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Solar and wind power appear to be acceptable, but both are much less reliable than coal, and much more expensive.

Why less and less people? Because it is so expensive, so very few will be able to basically afford that.

Much less positively, EU member states have been slow to act in concert.