And the downdraft of the pound and the euro — which fell to $1.26 against the dollar on Friday, its lowest level in two years — is less serious for the economic well-being of Britain and Europe than the deterioration of currencies like the Mexican peso or the Russian ruble.
A high proportion of low intakes is less serious for Spain, for example, than for the Nordic countries.
Tsunami watches - in which the danger of large waves is deemed to be less serious - had been in place for Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and Honduras.
These medical events range from life-threatening, such as multiple organ failure, to those that are less serious but important for patients and for adherence, such as epiphora.
I fear the tone here is less serious than it was for Steve Rose and David Thomson's Mulholland Drive love-in … 9.35pm: "Somebody's about to get a fucking slap".
According to Tabachnick and Fidell (2013), "If only a few data points, say 5% or less, are missing in a random pattern from a large data set, the problems are less serious and almost any procedure for handling missing values yields similar results.
We hypothesize that this is the reason why understating the value of s 2 is less serious than overstating it, at least for BayesA, as further indicated by our results, provided that the other hyperparameter v is inferred upon.
The nation's infrastructure crisis is no less serious for being silent.
The other side of that argument, it has to be said, is that under a commercial system, there would be less room for serious news: the model of the American networks is scarcely one to aspire to.Reforming news and current affairs was Mr Birt's first and probably his toughest task at the BBC.
"All you seem to have been concerned about is making things less serious for yourself". Chidgey pleaded guilty to perversion of the court of justice.
