Sentence examples for are less ardent from inspiring English sources

While many libertarians are fans of Rand, they are less ardent about her than Allison.

But Morris's devotion to the ideal of military service was less ardent than his commitment to an overriding principle: black participation in public life must take place on terms of perfect equality.

The remaining 30-odd30-oddpercent less fervent fans of Syriza and more ardent haters of the Troika.

What stuck in my mind was less his ardent cheering for Hugh Gaitskell than his even more ardent support for the cause of returning the Elgin Marbles to Greece.

Separately, in front of an audience of conservatives, he smirked dismissively as he griped that Hagel and John Kerry were "less than ardent fans of the U.S. military".

The men are somewhat less ardent.

Following this up with the choice of one of his brother's most ardent supporters – who was less than enthusiastic about his new boss in an interview with the Guardian on the day the results were declared – suggests a welcome readiness to make good the scars of the leadership contest and to lay to rest the exhausting and exhausted warfare between Brownites and Blairites.

For one thing, this modest pitch was meant to reassure less ardent integrationists across Europe that Germany was only flying a kite.

Unlike the new generation of African-American and white Muslims, who have the zeal of converts, these less ardent Muslims are usually immigrants or their American-born children.

While the F.B.I.'s campaign against antiwar "subversives" was largely ineffective, a considerably less ardent campaign against the Ku Klux Klan and its allies proved devastating.

The juggernaut that is the Harvard Development Office has grown no less ardent in its pleas for my contribution this reunion season.