Sentence examples for be due less from inspiring English sources

Burress said the slow starts and fast finishes might be due less to rust from not practicing and more to his subconscious.

The lag in United States tourism may be due less to memories of the war and more to a practical fact: There are no direct flights between the United States and Vietnam.

This may be due less to the fraying convention that it is unseemly to criticise the commander-in-chief and more to the fact that even a war-weary America tends to rally behind wars in their early stages.

It is believed the new terms increase the Scot's salary, although the 43-year-old – who has won just three of his last 26 games – would now be due less compensation should he be dismissed.

If there is dullness at the heart of the film, that may be due less to the director (though he should have cut it by a good ten minutes) than to the source material; attempts to link Georgiana's story with a broken royal marriage of more recent vintage are tendentious at best.

It may be due less contact time and slower diffusion of solute particles and rapid saturation of resin bed (Onyango et al. 2009).

Many of the systemic flaws are due less to corruption than to judicial overload.

Such pain as she suffered may have been due less to the rejection by S.F.B. than to the ensuing publicity.

The triumph of Fascism in Germany is due less to Hitler's leadership than to the marching songs of German youth," said Mr. Leach.

Its ruined condition is due less to the eruption of A.D. 79 than to an earthquake 17 years earlier, after which it was left in disrepair.

The increased numbers are due less to any particular Spanish strategy than to the fact that terrorism and instability have driven millions of holidaymakers from Egypt, Tunisia, Turkey and France.