As well as being feared, the Chinese are admired for being cleverer than everybody else.

Whatever advantages they enjoyed, in his view, derived more from being relatively large than from being a permanent member.

In general, countries reported fewer orders being received online than placed.

In less than 200 years, you know, just in a few generations, we've gone from being 200 being 100 percent, 95 percent farmers to less than 2 percent of farmers.

Reprints were still being produced more than 30 years later in 1868.

More than a century on, those bonds were being maintained and consolidated.

Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

In one move, he reversed the Pakistani political dynamic being farthest from the dictator became more valuable than being closest to him.

Putin s political genius is that he understands that, for Russians, being perceived as powerful is even more important than actually being powerful.

(iii) That is being used by a person other than the rightful holder

By calling what s being taken from the young taxes, rather than borrowing that is, a promise to repay far more than what s being taken the implicit debts have been intentionally kept off the books.

Decisions should be taken sooner rather than later, so that the eurozone itself shapes events, rather than being commanded by them.

My mom once said, there's nothing worse than being all mouth and no trousers.

In general, green accounting may end up being more biased than conventional GDP measures.

Support for such operations was an upgrade option rather than being a standard feature.

13th Man After seven years now of being in a wheelchair, I've done more in life being in a chair than out of a chair.

Some milk substitutes are marketed to consumers as being more healthy than cow's milk, by being lower in saturated fat and for not containing cholesterol.

Buffett reminds us that there is more to happiness than being in a good mood.

All things being equal, Afghans would prefer security under any regime other than the Taliban.

Consequently, the secondary can be many times more powerful than the primary, without being bigger.

According to Human Rights First, Egyptian police have arrested more than than 80 people for the crime of being gay transgender since October 2013.

The reason is obvious the damage caused is many times higher than the compensation being requested.

A child with the same diagnosis today has a better than 80 chance of being cured.

But it is puzzling only if we characterize Asia as being multi polar rather than hierarchical.

In cities, pollen particles fall on concrete and asphalt rather than being absorbed by the soil.

Unlike the Japanese experience, this crisis involved the entire world, rather than being confined to a single country. And, unlike the Great Depression, this time the financial system was put on artificial life support, rather than being allowed to collapse.

The consequences of 1989 ended up being less enduring than many observers, including me, would have assumed.

Far more Muslims are still being murdered by fellow Muslims than by Israelis, or indeed by Americans.

Despite being a nation of immigrants, more Americans are skeptical about immigration than are sympathetic to it.

That would mean that the International Date Line, rather than being at 180, would be at 145W.

There are as many as 20,000 burial mounds, many of them being older than the Egyptian pyramids.

A cleaner, safer, more convenient road transportation system is possible and closer to being realized than many believe.

Much of what is being said and written in Lebanon is more likely to be rumors than not.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is known to criticize France for being less than enthusiastic about European political union.

But, despite being a nation of immigrants, more Americans are skeptical about immigration than are sympathetic to it.

Unlike the Japanese experience, this crisis involved the entire world, rather than being confined to a single country.

A cleaner, safer, more convenient road transportation system is possible and closer to being realized than many believe.

Even before a situation deteriorates (if it does), people sense when they are being calmed rather than informed.

I've found more than 85 moms in 26 countries all sharing what they love about being a mother.

In one study, 75 of patients preferred being nursed in a bay rather than in a Nightingale ward.

Most species of lice are host specific, with the sucking lice being more host specific than chewing lice.

In a networked world, leadership is more like being in the middle of the circle and attracting others than being king of the mountain and issuing orders to subordinates down below.

They were all perceived as being less than normal in all those characteristics more violent, etc. before the surgery.

For the second time in less than four years, Asia is being hit with a major external demand shock.

Security is an obvious priority, and that means being able to defuse tensions by economic rather than military means.