Sentence examples for a much less firm from inspiring English sources
But these images of Pruitt-Igoe have a much less firm a place in the culture than those of Pruitt-Igoe's destruction, an event that – though commentators have used it in the service of a variety of political points – on balance reinforced the American fear of the type of tall, high-density housing that is so common today in the rich cities of east Asia.
Moreover, Mr. Hashimoto proved much less firm in tackling the recession.
The company appears on much less firm ground with its Orwell quote, however: "The famous author George Orwell came out publicly and said about the new paperback format, if 'publishers had any sense, they would combine against them and suppress them.' Yes, George Orwell was suggesting collusion.
But with the increased use of auctions in sales to private-equity firms, this has become a much less likely explanation for superior performance.
Unlike Waste Management and competitor Allied Waste Industries, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Republic Services has employed a much less ambitious acquisition strategy, focusing on taking over smaller firms.
But private-equity firms have also recently shown interest in a much less glamorous business: nursing homes.
A second example comes from an elite consulting firm that lost a juicy new government contract to a much less prestigious competitor.
"This is much less a firm P.R. strategy than an overwhelming and spontaneous outpouring of emotion from all of the innocent people in the firm," Mr. Dorton said.
Software is hard to build inside a software company, much less a law firm".
Multidisciplinary, sophisticated, efficient, cost-effective, scalable, agile, holistic, and needle-moving solutions are not the stuff that even elite law firms are made of, much less other firms.
