In some respects, the Tibetans were treated less ruthlessly than the majority of Chinese.

The military occupation was no less harsh the closures, the checkpoints, the confiscations of land and water resources and the demolition of houses continued unabated.

In the short term, the situation in Germany is less severe than in France.

The Cruelty of Chance

By the end of 2012, the crisis could be considered less acute.

Her country supported UNIDO's policies aimed at reducing poverty in the least developed countries.

This situation becomes even more acute regarding small scale fishing, where the work relationship is even more informal.

Another is the ruthlessness of the regime.

According to a study by the Annenberg Public Policy Center, there has been less incivility in Congress in recent years than in the 1990 s or the 1940 s.

She argued that because there were fewer facilities for female prisoners, women frequently were incarcerated further from home and more frequently in more severe conditions.

Unfortunately, other crises less spectacular and lesser in scale suffered from neglect and lack of media attention.

Extreme events, such as droughts, floods and hurricanes, will be less extreme and less frequent with successful mitigation.

In part, this reflected the new regime s cruelty.

The violence has also become crueler.

So the resource curse has hit Russia with a vengeance.

On Twitter, the reactions are more fierce.

The conciliator may meet or communicate with the parties together or with each of them separately.

The EU will be tough on terrorism.

This is a deliberate, cruelly organised crime.

It claims to own the rights to any test for the presence of the two critical genes associated with breast cancer and has ruthlessly enforced that right, though their test is inferior to one that Yale University was willing to provide at much lower cost.

The financial stringencies of the Great Depression put a definitive end to the Policy.

Under these circumstances, crises could be even greater, and the adjustments harsher as occurred under the last world currency, the gold standard.

It was a moment of truth, a cleansing from within of the brutality of Stalinism.

Or he can let history judge him even more harshly.

As public anxiety has abated, and senior officials have felt less pressure to show that they are doing something, the most flagrant abuses have declined. But such practices are still being applied to a lesser degree, and they can be pulled out of the arsenal whenever political or social conditions dictate.

The actual arrangements varied and might include fewer hours per day, fewer days per week, or fewer months per year.

It was also a testament to the cruelty of Morocco in its brutal occupation of Western Sahara.

The witness emphasized the cruelty of the method used to demolish these homes.

A downturn, however, usually exposes or sharpens latent social tension.

They generously reward the lapdog press, while castigating genuine watchdog journalism or any media outlet that refuses to toe the official line.

In earlier times, crises of much lesser intensity would have brought the military rushing onto the political stage, as happened in 1958, 1969, 1977, and 1999.

The representative of Cuba emphasized the importance, for promoting entrepreneurial activity and reducing poverty in LDCs, of access to information and communication technology.

This makes populist pressure to abandon the euro correspondingly less severe the key questions, of course, being how much less severe, and whether the political center can hold.

In general, a computer program may be optimized so that it executes more rapidly, or is capable of operating with less memory storage or other resources, or draw less power.

The United States, for example, cruelly allows its poorest children to suffer.

In the Great Depression, bank collapses made the downturn far worse.

If necessary, China should beat them, we need to be tougher.

The world could not have prevented Yugoslavia s spiral into civil war, but it might have made it less cruel by helping to negotiate terms of separation earlier.

At the same time, geographically diversified institutions outperformed even during the recent global crisis, because they were less vulnerable to downturns in individual regions.

As public anxiety has abated, and senior officials have felt less pressure to show that they are doing something, the most flagrant abuses have declined.

Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) is an approach adopted by WHO and UNICEF to reduce morbidity and mortality among children under five years of age in developing countries.

I speak as someone who as a child witnessed and still remembers the most extreme cruelties.

States may choose individually not to exercise all their rights, or to exercise those rights collectively.

Indeed, as their home markets expand, fuller use of domestic sources of growth may coincide with a less pronounced outward orientation.

We can use less or more of them.