The current environment appears to be more favorable.

That place is not Europe or Japan, where debts are even higher than in the US and the demographic preconditions for servicing them less favorable.

While the essence of discrimination is that a person is treated less favourably than a person of the opposite sex would be treated in a similar situation, there is no specific definition of discrimination.

The direct discrimination based on gender exists when a person was treated, is treated or may be treated less favorably than another person in the same or similar situation, based on gender.

According to the Gender Equality Act, the employer must not establish conditions for remuneration or other conditions which are less favourable regarding an employee of one sex compared to an employee of the other sex doing the same or equivalent work.

In trade, the challenge remains to make the multilateral system more development friendly.

It will also create a climate more conducive to negotiating a peaceful resolution to the conflict in Darfur.

Indirect discrimination based on gender exists when a seemingly neutral legal norm, criterion or practice equal for all brings into less favorable situation a person of one gender when compared to persons of another gender.

Healing the wounds of the past and rebuilding bridges between the various communities will create an environment more favourable to tolerance.

Israel s leaders believe that the day of reckoning with Hamas will come only when the conditions for a major military showdown are riper.

If there is going to be more aggregate demand, it can come from only one place. That place is not Europe or Japan, where debts are even higher than in the US and the demographic preconditions for servicing them less favorable.

Positive decisions had been taken to assist in enhancing the economic, social and political performance of Africa on the basis of policies and programmes determined by Africans themselves, provide resources through a combination of debt cancellation and increased ODA, encourage private investment as well as enhance the quality of aid.

3. Recognizes that the Moscow Treaty is an important result of the new bilateral strategic relationship, which will help in establishing more favourable conditions for actively promoting security and cooperation, and enhancing international stability

By contrast, India has a far more abundant supply of labor, as well as a more favorable demographic profile, so that, as India s investment rate increases, labor will not be a constraint.

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

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.

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

India s external debt burden is even more favorable, at only 21.2 of GDP (much of it owed by the private sector), while short term external debt is only 5.2 of GDP.

And therefore less juice into the task, fewer puzzles solved, a less favorable outcome compared to you folks.

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.

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

They will enjoy less congested cities and fewer environmental pressures on the countryside.

So, you're putting in less juice, and therefore the outcome fewer puzzles solved.

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

Local authorities and members of civil society informed the Group that they remain fearful of a potential reactivation of military operations by ex FAPC elements in Aru territory with a view to restoring more favourable taxation and tariff regimes.

Didn't I say that?

Less of an Ass

Didn't I tell you so?

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

Here one encounters less collective hope and less individual fear.

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

The current flows in a thicker layer in the metal, encounters less resistance and so produces less heat.

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

Fat hens lay few eggs.

I didn't say my last word!

His letters become less significant.

New World, Less Order

Didn't I tell you so?

Group of the Least Developed Countries

Educated women have fewer children

Group of the Least Developed Countries

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.

As countries become less reliant on traditional sources of financing, they are less likely to follow foreign diktats blindly.

Any value lower than one would indicate that the project's PV is less than the initial investment.