"If China's political exploration ultimately brings 1.3 billion people towards prosperity and democracy, its political contribution to humanity will not be less than Western systems that took hundreds of years to evolve, " it adds.
Now, we argued before the Judiciary Committee that it must treat a vote to impeach as a vote to remove and that that judgment ought not to be based on anything less than a clear and convincing standard, a standard indeed adopted by the Watergate Committee 25 years ago.
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Moreover, the chancellor's obsession with means-tested state pensions has undermined the incentive to save for retirement and the skewing of the tax-benefit system against marriage has been greatly exacerbated, despite overwhelming evidence that young people brought up within married couple families tend to be more successful and less likely to be involved in criminal activities than those who are not.
He also may turn about to be, if not a fraud, then less than truthful.
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This is something not to be scoffed at, but is less than a comprehensive solution...
Arbitration typically involves a quick resolution and tends to be less expensive than litigation (although not always).
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And absent a price on carbon, biomass-based chemicals and fuels need to be less expensive than existing products, not at price parity.
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You want to take care not to be casual about making your choices and later discover you have a significantly less-than-optimal core group.
Foreign-owned banks have their reputations at home and around the world to consider, not to mention their home-country regulators, so they will be less susceptible to corruption than incumbent domestic banks.
Ameresco management had already expected their quarter 2012 results to be less than 2011, but they did not see just how bad things were likely to get.
Workers were not less productive than they used to be.
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It was not to be but the night was still far less straightforward than United might have anticipated at the interval.
One amendment, for example, declared that the health-care bill could not be linked to a tax hike on individuals making less than two hundred thousand dollars a year.
Thematically, it's less simple than it pretends to be, and not just on the two death songs above.
Terminally-ill people with less than six months to live will not be affected by the changes.
Half of the women surveyed said they worried their family incomes would not be able to keep up with inflation rates compared to less than 40% of men.
The employment created tended to be far less skilled than had been anticipated and many were not "new" jobs as they were with existing companies who had moved from just up the road to take advantage of the lower costs in enterprise zones.
And yet it is the dignity of human possibility to be found in nascent life that should lead us treat it not less well than it deserves.
There were mixed views on quotas, with some female politicians acknowledging they had played an important role, whilst others stressed that quotas must not be allowed to create the impression that women politicians are less capable than their male colleagues.
The Center for Security Policy has long opposed "framework agreements" because they frequently are imbued with political significance or legal status they should not enjoy particularly insofar as they prove to be less than faithful templates for the treaties that follow.
To not provide you an opportunity to compete for this position would be nothing less than shortsighted stupidity on my part.
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Over time if not early on, Saddam's cooperation will prove to be far less than complete, his acceptance of inspections hardly unconditional.
What assurance is there that undue delay (among other devices) will not be used by the Japanese to ensure that the technology transferred remains less than Japan's state-of-the-art?
Though capitalism is less precious to me than our survival, this would not be necessary.
The problem may not be that we are innovating less well than we used to, or have lost our appetite for imaging our surroundings and selves in a new way.
Here was a woman with scruples less developed than her own, someone who had chosen to be not frightened but entertained by her new neighborhood, someone who soldiered on with her elective surgery even when her best friend got a diagnosis of cancer.
This does not have to be close to 100% because generally pensioners need less to live on than full-time workers.
One, who preferred to remain anonymous, bluntly told me it would be political suicide not to accept the government's cash even though it was far less than required to keep the level of services he wanted.
Not only would the United States be less ready than it must be to prevent and prevail in the conflicts to come.
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Whether or not "Return to Casablanca" ever gets made may be of less interest, however, than the fact that it is still being considered.
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