Sentence examples for has become less open from inspiring English sources

The oil industry has lost foreign technical input, the country has become less open to the outside world and the influence of the middle class, already weak, has ebbed further.

BEIJING — The women's 5,000 meters has become less of an open race than a personal tug of war between Ethiopia's Tirunesh Dibaba and Meseret Defar.

This year's emphasised housing and education, an effort to open up opportunity in a society that in some ways has become less equal, not more.

– has become less necessary.

Recently, however, Europe has become less unbending.

Harvest work has become less enjoyable since.

Lately it has become less bellicose.

But terror has become less obtrusive.

This year, the road has become less travelled.

Today, privacy has become less desirable and less possible.

Surgery has become less invasive and radiation therapy less toxic.