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.

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.

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.

According to UNICEF, children who suffer from severe under nutrition are 9.5 times more likely to die from diarrhea and 6.4 times more likely to die from pneumonia.

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

Young women with HIV were 10 times more likely to do so.

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.

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.

But the people who fail are 37 times more likely to succeed the second time.

Haitians were a hundred times more likely to die in an equivalent storm than Dominicans.

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

And if politicians choose less efficient, less coordinated cap and trade policies, the costs could escalate a further 10 to 100 times.

This film has been watched more than 67,000 times in less than 10 days.

Unlicensed drivers, he found, are nearly five times more likely to be in a fatal crash.

People from ethnic minorities are less likely to suffer from high cholesterol levels, but more likely to suffer from high blood pressure and obesity.

Again, research shows that parents should spend less time worrying about what they do wrong and more time focusing on what they do right, worry less about the bad times and build up the good times.

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.

Candles are cozy and seem oh so natural. Yet, when measured by the light they generate, candles are almost 100 times less efficient than incandescent light bulbs, and more than 300 times less efficient than fluorescent lights.

Gas generates ten times less carbon than biomass or ethanol, which ecologists so heavily promote.

Also mentioned in the writings of Pseudo Scylax, the site likely regained some importance in Hellenistic times.

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.

Younger leaders are more likely to be able to cope with the chop and change of difficult times.

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.