Sentence examples for fewer masses from inspiring English sources

As the vocation director for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn in the late 1980's, the Rev. Fernando Ferrarese spent most of his time preaching about the shortage of young men entering the priesthood and what it might mean for parish life: churches without pastors, neighborhoods without churches, fewer Masses, frustrated priests.

As a result, there are simply fewer mass-media experiences to be had.

Time-shift viewing has killed destination TV – which means less water-cooler wittering but also fewer mass fixed-point, fixed-time shared experiences.

Several publishers said Wal-Mart, a major seller of mass-market paperbacks, has been quietly revamping its book selection to include fewer mass-market paperbacks and more trade paperbacks, which have higher production values: better-quality paper and larger covers.

There might be fewer mass lectures delivered because it's a more efficient use of resources to record the lecture and let students watch and rewatch it at their leisure.

Mental illness is the cause of fewer mass shootings than the public perceives, Appelbaum said.

Controlling for population, states that required background checks saw 52percentt fewer mass shootings than those without them. .

Not that surprisingly, states with mandated background checks also saw 63percentt fewer mass shootings committed by individuals barred from gun ownership.

States that require background checks for all handgun sales have significantly fewer mass shootings than states without them, according to a new analysis by Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun violence prevention organization backed by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

But here's something you might not expect: Levin argues that we're seeing less terrorism and fewer mass killings today than there were in the 1970s and 1980s.

Should these processes be more common in the tropics, the latitudinal biodiversity gradient may be partly a result of tropical species experiencing fewer mass extinction events yet higher background rates of extinction.