Sentence examples for extend less from inspiring English sources

Beijing is also widely expected to continue to resort to other tools in its growth- and credit-damping arsenal, notably instructions to banks to extend less credit.

With today’s prices encouraging producers to develop or extend less productive fields, Cal Dive’s sales backlog should remain on an uptrend.

The mean residuals also show some periodic variation, particularly in the Z-component, which appear roughly annual although continuous data extend less than 2 years and the local time evolution of satellite orbits could also play a role.

The AAST subdivides parenchymal lacerations into grade II if they extend less than 1 cm in depth and grade III if they extend more than 1 cm; in any case, there is no difference in the treatment of grade II and III lesions, which must follow the simple "wait-and-see" management.

Under such a model the width of the divergent region should extend less than the average length of a gene conversion tract from the selected site or sites.

Selective sweeps are expected to extend less far in regions of higher recombination rate, and thus allele frequency differentiation is expected to be negatively correlated with recombination rate under hitchhiking.

But this soil extends less than eight miles along a ridge barely more than a mile wide, leaving a scant nine square miles of prime vine-growing land.

Perhaps that forgiveness is extended less readily to Mr. Pollini, since so much of his stature is based on flawless precision and its revelatory effects.

Tonga held the French out to reach halftime with a 13-6 lead that they could have extended less than three minutes into the second period though Morath missed the penalty.

A 2011 article in The Atlantic magazine, examining a study by Boston College, noted a "surprising litany of anxieties" in the super rich, including feelings of isolation, self-doubt and tensions with extended, less wealthy, family members.

b The test is positive when the affected knee extends less than the healthy contralateral knee.