We chose those locations because they were less likely to be targeted by air strikes.

Such weapons were particularly dangerous, as they were likely to be deployed away from central control and were therefore less secure.

And, until recently, donors who were willing to pay for relief were less likely to finance follow up evaluations.

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.

The results showed that juries given explicit nullification instructions were more likely to vote guilty in a drunk driving case, but less likely to do so in a euthanasia case.

But Southern white women, who were much more likely than Southern white men to support Bill Clinton in 1996 and Al Gore in 2000, were less likely than Southern men to support Democrat John Kerry in 2004.

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

If this were to happen, the meetings of the Parties would be less likely to rotate among member States, and would be more likely to be held in the seat of the Secretariat.

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.

Recent research by two Canadian psychologists found that people who spent money on green products were, immediately afterwards, less likely to be generous and more likely to steal than those who bought non green stuff.

Compared to non drinkers, women who had been drinking wine for at least 25 years prior were 33 less likely to die over the five year period following diagnosis and 26 less likely to experience a relapse or develop a secondary cancer during that same five year period.

In the public domain, women are less likely to achieve senior positions.

She also suggested that women face indirect discrimination, arguing that it was more likely that women would be placed in pre trial detention than men, because women were less likely to be able to afford bail.

First, the seven remaining fugitives are less likely to accept to surrender voluntarily than the accused who were transferred in the first part of this year.

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.

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

Most relevant to us is one study s finding that humans who carry less active forms of the IGF 1 receptor gene were more likely to live to 100.

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

Frighteningly, the Russians were likely correct.

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.

Other oil exporting ESCWA member countries are less likely to favour rapid government expenditure increases.

Cuts in spending, especially on entitlements and transfers, were far less likely to cause recessions than tax increases were. Unfortunately, tax hikes have predominated in many recent European consolidations, including last week s proposed Cyprus bailout.

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.

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.

10.43 Data from the 1997 graduate tracer study show that Government employed 62 per cent of graduates it also showed that females were less likely to undertake post graduate study.

The Chinese were less ideological.

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.

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.

In other words, if your trust in the market and in the way it is regulated fell sharply, you were less likely to deposit money in banks or invest in stocks.

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.