But, budget experts say, Mr. Bloomberg has taken a more focused approach, trying in particular to scale back employee benefits and to a lesser extent wages for new workers -- tangible savings that will provide the city significant economic benefits down the road.
26 A number of studies of child deaths have also used verbal autopsy data to feed back to communities, but to a lesser degree.
Faisal, in a US cable marked secret, emphasised the need for what he referred to as a "security response" to the military challenge to the Lebanon government from Hezbollah, the Shia militia backed by Iran and, to a lesser extent, Syria.
Janus has backed away from tech to a lesser degree: 1999′s 33% exposure is now a still-high 20%.
Now, we can all get back to things of lesser significance: The presidential election, the economy and the bailout, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan/Pakistan, climate change and the environment and the financial needs of both Chicago and Illinois.
Back in 2008, John Edwards and (to a lesser extent) Hillary Clinton were the class warriors.
It depends on the goodwill and generosity of its much beefier and richer neighbours such as Saudi Arabia and (until the fall of Saddam Hussein) Iraq, and, farther afield, on the assiduous backing of the United States and to a lesser extent Britain.
In Iraq, the Americans have backed the Iraqi army (and, to a lesser degree, the Kurds), and the Islamic State has lost major ground -- albeit a lot slower than America might wish.
The cost of bringing back empty boxes from America and, to a lesser extent, from Europe, was one of the excuses for raising rates out of Asia this summer.
