There would be more democracy, less oppression more freedom, less terrorism more growth, less poverty.

In other areas, diplomacy would be quieter and less ideological with Capriles as president, but it would be no less ambitious.

Nothing less, they urged, would be enough.

Putin s position on global warming would be less ambivalent.

Were unemployment lower, the worries about outsourcing would be less.

Such a prospect would be even less acceptable to developing countries.

Without the United Nations, today's world would be a place with less security and freedom, less social justice and democracy.

Such a strategy would be less simple than merely holding highly imperfect elections.

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.

If Poland were less unjustifiably afraid of its future, it would be less obsessed with a past that will not pass away.

In the process, ideas are disseminated and used less than they would be otherwise.

Finally, abandoning the gold standard was less disruptive than abandoning the euro would be.

Second, because IMF intervention would reduce the influence of powerful domestic insiders, early intervention would be less attractive to them.

But without them, the global economy would be even less manageable than it already is.

Any country in the same position as the US, even a democracy, would be tempted to exercise its hegemonic power with less and less restraint.

Moreover, even if the Gulf Stream were to weaken over the century, this would be good , as there would be less net warming over land areas.

Estimates show that the cost in terms of adaptation would be less than 1 of global GDP.

And potential national outcomes would be less uncertain if excessive inequality were not treated as an afterthought.

Larger objects (such as macroscopic dust grains) are far less common, but would be much more destructive.

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.

The label would be designed for those who are less motivated and or able to read these prospectuses.

Such vehicles would be programmed to avoid crashes, leading to fewer deaths and injuries and less property damage.

But it would also be less easy to reject a call for greater burden sharing in the world.

The principle behind this is that collective insurance would be cheaper, and therefore less deflationary, than self insurance.

In short, fiscal consolidation would be both easier and less painful if Greece had its own monetary policy.

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

This, together with concerted action by governments elsewhere, will mean that the downturn will be less severe than it otherwise would be.

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.

There would be fewer informal systems, and those remaining would have to be less secretive to compete for business with regulated remittance service providers, so allowing more scrutiny by authorities.

Fortunately for China, the negative consequences of such a move would probably be far less severe than previously thought.

Employers would be more likely to offer employment if the process is made less complex than it currently is.

Thus, we would expect less opportunity for transformational leadership.

Not only would this be a much less expensive fix than trying to cut carbon emissions, but it would also reduce global warming far more quickly.

For a president bent on implementing reforms, less can be more less aggressiveness and less ego.

Gout occurs less than would be expected and lower levels of uric acid have been found in people with MS.

The final (1973 74) season of his variety show would be retooled into one of celebrity roasts, requiring less involvement.

I said that Pakistan would inevitably follow suit and the world would become less safe.

Ideally, Asian currencies would rise much more than 15 while European currencies would rise less.

That would result in both more protection and less suspicion.

And, if it were really possible to ensure that the wealth levy would be temporary, such a tax would, in principle, be much less distortionary than imposing higher marginal tax rates on income.

One may ask how can an interest rate be negative? Why would anyone lend (buy a bond) for less than nothing?

This would mean less wasted time and more clarity for litigants.

Emerging and developing countries are demanding a stronger voice in the IMF, but they also seem to be suggesting that they would like it to be less intrusive and less able to impose conditionality while simultaneously providing more and cheaper financing.

To be sure, coal and oil companies would suffer, and big polluting countries like the US would obviously pay a higher price than those with a less profligate lifestyle.

Some Chinese argue that anything less than 8 growth would be inadequate to ensure sufficient job creation and fend off social instability.