Sentence examples for been less generous as from inspiring English sources

First, as a brash start-up that won over 600 patent lawsuits in its first 18 years, then as a cut-throat competitor that pushed the limits of lawfulness to consolidate America's telecoms market and finally, until 1984, as a government-sanctioned monopoly.But the modern era has been less generous, as the business behind AT&T's central activity of connecting long-distance calls crumbled.

Other assessments have been less generous.

The reaction at Simmons, however, has been less generous.

He struck a very different tone from a GOP president who has suggested the U.S. should be less generous abroad, use might as much as possible and see radical extremism as a consequence of Muslim identity, not of deprivation.

So, too, does the impact of replacing the employment credit - paid directly to the individual - by the working tax credit which, as well as being less generous, is paid in arrears through a tax code, with anecdotal evidence indicating that it has significantly reduced take-up.

Meanwhile, growth in compensation — wages and benefits — also slowed as companies were less generous amid troubles in the economy and uncertainty about their own prospects.

(Morris was less generous when Dr. Luke was momentarily enrobed as the third judge on the new season of "American Idol," which has a deal with Universal. Morris put the kibosh on the doctor's judgeship after the Hollywood Reporter and Time had already announced it).

"Everybody feels threatened by a question like that because they don't want to come across as someone who's less generous than someone else," he said.

Sauter was less generous to the fiscal stimulus program, describing it as simply a political maneuver, rather than sound policy.

And the budget he produced as chairman of the House Budget Committee is less generous to the Pentagon.

In his first round as governor, starting in 1975, he was less generous in funding UC than Ronald Reagan, his predecessor, had been.