Sentence examples for held less from inspiring English sources

Concepts like shame held less weight.

Minorities held less than 16percentt.

The bank held less than a dollar in reserves for every $30 of its liabilities.

A third man was held less than a mile away at another address.

Banks that lost market power as a consequence also held less capital as a buffer against bankruptcy.

Neoorthodoxy held less appeal for most Disciples, but William Robinson gained attention for his emphasis on biblical doctrine.

The final debate of the runoff was held less than an hour before the United States began bombing Afghanistan.

To edit The National Gazette, Jefferson drafted Philip Freneau, a minor poet whose verse held less appeal than his polemics.

Back then, Norwegian women held less than 7 percent of private-sector board seats; just under 5 percent of chief executives were women.

The entrepreneur has never held less than that, though early on in the airline's history his original business partner, Randolph Fields, held a 25 percent stake.

In the end, commoners held less than 1 percent of the lands distributed, and many ali'i (chiefs) sold out to foreign sugar barons to raise cash.