Mr Geffen's history explains the insecurity and drive that pushed him to the top, but doesn't make his behaviour any the less awful.
For example, even though the Clinton Administration is substantially reducing the number of troops in Europe, it has not suggested that the United States is any less committed to the security of its friends and allies there than before.
There is no indication that the introduction of women into the religious police would necessarily make the rules any less strict, but it would boost the presence of women in public life.
The more drugs that are included in any class warning, the less powerful it will be.
Nor do I see any reason the PS4 will be any less capable of running apps like Netflix.
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Investors in index funds expect to get exactly the performance of the index (less any expense of the fund).
Why it seems to get the attention that it's getting, I can't explain, but I don't think that she meant it in any way to disarm him or to make him any less of the person that he is.
My understanding is that the information thus far collected by the Committee does not support any of the charges of impropriety, much less any unlawful behavior.
And the more the outsiders fight, the less the chance that any of them will be admitted to the club.
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Management refused to even discuss what is going on behind the scenes much less shed any light on the proceedings by the Special Committee.
This brings us to a troubling conclusion: To the extent that any family with the wherewithal is paying less than the full cost of the product it is buying through combined tuition payments and donations, that family is effectively being subsidized by other current and past donors.
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These unitholders will receive the then-current net asset value of the units, based on the current market value of the underlying securities in the portfolio, less any remaining deferred sales charge, as of the evaluation time.
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That makes the precise location of the surface where the image is to be formed much less important, because any particular plane at any given location will receive more or less the same pattern of light rays.
Canada, with its relatively small population of 34 million, has the lowest debt burden of any G8 country and less than half the per capita debt burden of the U.S. The country can continue to free ride on the U.S. in certain areas, especially defense, though Canada's contributions in Afghanistan have been significant.
This doesn't make the work any less wicked, but distinguishes it from ordinary crime.
Such cases have not made the law any less popular with prosecutors.
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Desperation for foreign money has not made the regime any less dangerous.
It may not mend any fences and given the less-than-contrite nature of many of his answers, the whole fiasco hardly seems likely to gain him much sympathy.
Hu, who works in PR, doesn't think the Lunar New Year will be any less enjoyable this year because of the campaigns to reduce waste and fireworks.
Of course, this doesn't make the iPhone any less irresistible.
Well, right now, as Robert Peston has written, most people would say the best deal for the UK last night was more or less any deal that saved the euro.
All along they saw the state dinner as something that was rightfully theirs to attend because, let's face it, the Salahis' acts don't suggest any less class or integrity than the sort of antics regularly engaged in by those who actually were on the guest list.
Men who read about the economy expressed less desire to buy any of the goods, but the women reminded about economics showed a greater desire for beauty-enhancing products.
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Also, the place of the al-Assad government within any peace conference, much less in the future of the country, is an obstacle that separates the large powers considerably.
One year later, I am wondering if the infrastructure boom I am witnessing from our office windows can in any way be less spectacular than the one last year.
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In the eyes of the central bank, any meddling with maturity or anything less than the receipt of full-payment at maturity would potentially constitute a credit event putting the nation at default.
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While we may seem endlessly glum about the economy here, in fact U.S. entrepreneurs had the least fears of failure of any entrepreneurs in the developed world, with less than one-third of adults feeling discouraged from starting a business by fear.
The schematic action, cut off from popular culture and any wider reality, is less than the sum of his intentions.
Another way of putting the same point is that a tax, all taxes and any tax, means less money in the wallet of some live human being.
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