Sentence examples for less act from inspiring English sources

Just two short years ago, the country was run by a president and Congress that refused to acknowledge the reality of global warming, much less act to avert it.

Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong, is to co-ordinate policy, in co-operation (or competition?) with Mr Solana.Rival or helpmeet?The larger point is that Europeans do not yet think, still less act, as one.

-The Taming of the Shrew, more or less, Act II, Scene 1 TUESDAY'S PUZZLE — I don't know about you, but BATTLESHIP was one of my favorite board games when I was a kid.

It also inspired one of Belle and Sebastian's funniest videos – a French new wave cinema-inspired romp in which Murdoch and Jackson more or less act out the song's love triangle lyric, which concludes with none more fantastically drippy a note of jilted resignation than: "You and her in the local newspaper / you will be married and you will be gone".

He one does not act at all, much less act motivated by emotion.

"There was no way he could absorb, much less act on, the information, and it wasn't getting out to people who could," says Brynjolfsson.

Sexuality, while not absent, is certainly not on display, much less acted out.

Other defenses, focussed on slash, described it as a kind of safety valve: a substitute for desires that could not be articulated, much less acted out, in our real world.

"But for the psychosis, she would never have considered, much less acted upon, any thought to take the lives of the children she bore into this world and dearly loved as their mother".

Anyway, the technology more or less acts like a wireless HDMI connection, meaning you can hang your TV without all the cluttery wires everywhere.

The clearest example occurs in Part V: "Insofar as the mind understands all things as necessary, it has a greater power over the affects, or is less acted on them" (Vp6).