But there is also a risk that assistance for tsunami victims is diverting aid from disasters that are of a more chronic character or that are less amenable to sensational media coverage.

Syria s position and interests should make it amenable to a deal.

Most notably, they are ethnically homogeneous, so that social divisions are more amenable to compromise.

Unfortunately, this behavioral theory of stock market movements is not amenable to easy quantification and forecasting.

Many crucial issues, such as financial stability or climate change, simply are not amenable to military force.

Rather, they will be structural market failures of participation that are not amenable to any straightforward and easily implemented cure.

The political and security situation in Iraq seems to be stabilizing, and Syria seems to be more amenable to negotiation.

But are Asian governments prepared to abandon their mercantilist paradigm? Outside Japan, Asia policymakers certainly don t seem amenable to exchange rate appreciation

This makes them vulnerable to Syrian leverage, and is why they may be more amenable to dealing with Syria on the presidency.

Moreover, Kerry s peace drive is taking place in a regional environment that is not amenable to a negotiated resolution of the Israeli Palestinian conflict.

Since most chiefs in the nation are men, it is highly unlikely that this form of discriminatory practice will be readily amenable to change.

So this makes quantifying silk properties by methods such as tensile testing, which is basically, you know, tugging on one end of the fiber, very amenable.

As Russia s conflict with Ukraine in early January over gas prices demonstrated, when Russia plays rough, the West grows apprehensive and suspicious rather than more amenable.

Human rights protection is not amenable to diplomacy, with its tendency to untransparent process and to view the State to State relationship as the primary consideration.

By studying those twinkling lights though, we can learn about how stars and planets interact to form their own ecosystem and make habitats that are amenable to life.

Nevertheless, precisely because they care about the future of their numerous children, the French are much more amenable to some wise reforms than most commentators (and politicians) generally assume.

The brain s response to stress does not necessarily constitute damage per se and is amenable to reversal as well as prevention by treatments that include drugs, exercise, diet, and social support.

Less investment will mean less capital deepening.

But specific problems like trade, the military standoff on the Siachen glacier, the territorial border at Sir Creek, and water flows through the Wullar Barrage are certainly amenable to resolution through dialogue.

These indicators should either be deleted or amended to make them more amenable to data collection, or, alternatively, special effort should be put into setting up data collections to provide the information.

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

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

Sami started hearing from Layla less and less.

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

It turns out, most people over 50 feel better, are less stressed, are less hostile, less anxious.

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.

Here one encounters less collective hope and less individual fear.

There are Tunisians who want less rights, less freedom and less democracy to fight those who oppose freedom and democracy

China s technology inroads are usually less dramatic, but no less telling.

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This sterility and inertia make Europe less and less interesting for Americans.

Currently in Haiti we are speaking less and less of security problems.

Multilateralism may have to be less comprehensive and less formal, at least initially.

Trial by jury, which was infrequent anyway, is being seen less and less.

Its youth are less conformist and more demanding, less passive and more pluralistic.

Less noise, please.

Less noise, please.

The threat they pose may be less dramatic, but it is no less pernicious.

This time, however, the report is less clear, less reassuring. Who were the protesters?

For a president bent on implementing reforms, less can be more less aggressiveness and less ego. But can a man act against his deepest nature?

A little less dominance may mean a little less anxiety about Americanization, fewer complaints about American arrogance, and less intensity in the anti American backlash.

Fiscal consolidation means less public spending. And less spending means less upward pressure on prices which is the last thing Europe needs in a deflationary environment.

As a result, there is less Union in Europe and less Europe in the world.

Gore s co recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize is less known, but no less deserving.

It is considered less risky because some of its assets are less risky than others.