Sentence examples for less a shutdown from inspiring English sources

It's less a shutdown than a shakedown.

As Fox News notes, this is less a government shutdown than a government slimdown.

But it is less clear how a shutdown would affect some high-profile spacecraft that are being prepared for launch.

There is no definitive proof that flying is less safe during a shutdown.

Yet Europe might be in for its own version of a shutdown – less dramatic than the US government one, to be sure, but with similar causes.

In less safe districts where a shutdown might be more unpopular than Obamacare, Republicans highlighted their efforts to resolve the impasse.

Boehner's resignation makes a shutdown less likely: freed of the obligation to pander to the right, he and his colleagues in the G.O.P. leadership will probably push through a funding bill with Democratic support next week.

The Senate voted Friday night to fund the government until April 28 ― averting a shutdown less than an hour before the deadline.

In April 2011, for example, Congress and the White House reached a deal less than two hours before a shutdown would have begun.

This time, the stakes are higher — Congress is four months into the new fiscal year with no budget, teetering on the edge of a shutdown and less than a month from potentially politically catastrophic March deadline when dreamers could be deported.

For Democrats, the prospects of a shutdown appeared less precarious Tuesday after President Donald Trump said he'd "love to see a shutdown" if Congress couldn't agree on immigration.