Sentence examples for come less for from inspiring English sources

While the economic deprivation they suffer might symbolize the grievance at the heart of this protest, they have come less for the cause than for what they almost invariably describe as an easier existence.

It's in the pantheon of Manhattan restaurants whose patrons come less for the food than to be with their own kind -- like Michael's, for the publishing crowd, and Swifty's, for ladies of a certain position.

The report cards, the first ever for principals, come less than a month after Mr. Klein announced that he planned to remove about 50 poorly performing principals at the end of the school year and create new training programs to attract new leaders for the city's schools.

Comparing the reasons for STI consultation between ethnic groups, Turkish/Moroccan patients came less commonly for a check-up than Dutch patients (10.2% vs 20.1%).

With age came less patience for the rigorous pursuit of the set.

With the declining commitment from television came less money for distributors to take risks.

This vision, however, comes less easily -- for without institutional legitimacy, it is hard to see these students taking these books at all.

His killing, which the Taliban claimed responsibility for, came less than a week after the assassination of Ahmed Wali Karzai, the president's half brother and one of the most powerful men in southern Afghanistan.

It was the second big storm of the season for Washington, coming less than two months after a Dec. 19 snowfall of 16 inches.

The appeal, the latest move in a longstanding lawsuit by the advocacy group Campaign for Fiscal Equity, comes less than a month after a lower court ruled that Albany was shortchanging city schools by at least $4.7 billion a year -- but that only the governor and the Legislature, not the courts, could decide exact amounts of education aid.

Mr. Kerkorian's bid for Chrysler comes less than a year after he bought 10percentt of General Motors, had Mr. York put on the G.M. board and then tried to broker an alliance between the automaker and Renault of France and Nissan of Japan, both run by Carlos Ghosn.