Sentence examples for less a source of from inspiring English sources

Was their role any the less valorous and should it be less a source of pride?

The captain is as devoted to military honor as he is to his wife, and the implicit conflict between these commitments is less a source of agony than of exhilaration.

The lion has traditionally been less a source of alarm to wildlife-conservation groups, but in the last few years, in light of the startling drop in numbers, it is increasingly regarded as a threatened species.

Increasingly, forests are less a source of wood and more a recreational amenity, especially those on the fringe of large urban agglomerations, such as Fontainebleau and others of the Île-de-France region.

Rather, Obama projected an inspiring message, a "narrative," of change at a moment when so much in American life the economy, the environment, national security, health care is in such parlous condition that, for many voters, political familiarity seemed less a source of solace than a form of despair.

"The basic reality is that the risks that scare people and the risks that kill people are very different," said Dr. Peter M. Sandman, a risk communication consultant in Princeton, N.J. "Risks that you control," Dr. Sandman said, "are much less a source of outrage than risks that are out of your control.

Find lots of options for using less energy and thereby being less of a source of pollution.

The key to success is to see apprenticeships less as a source of cheap labour and more as a route to a career.

The investor Joe Ravitch, who is one of Vice's board members, told me that he views "Vice" less as a source of income than as a "barker show," an advertisement that will draw traffic to Vice's online business.

Mary treats her son's death less as a source of grief than as an occasion to reveal the chasm between his followers' belief in his immortality and her own skepticism.

The author of the "Communist Manifesto" of 1848 considered fox-hunting "the greatest physical pleasure I know", the apogee of English culture and, less convincingly, a source of useful ideas for managing the revolution.What lessons should be drawn from this farrago?