Sentence examples for less strenuously from inspiring English sources

ROSS DOUTHAT thinks liberals should object less strenuously to the Hobby Lobby decision because religion often impels corporations to do things that liberals would consider morally praiseworthy.

"Winter of the World" (covering 1933 to 1949) less strenuously views history through the eyes of purely fictional characters, dim though they may be.

Also, while many of the militia's gains have been won in battle, others have been less strenuously achieved with cash payments to local warlords, whose loyalties remain for sale.

Tony Blair, desperate to restore his multilateral bona fides with his own citizens and with the leaders of other European nations, has lobbied for the largest possible U.N. role; Secretary Powell has also been pushing, though less strenuously.

In each, styling herself as a kind of tougher-edged Jane Goodall, she likens the behavior of her characters more or less strenuously to the creature in the title.

THE BOTTOM LINE Some fans of the Kemps may yearn for a hotel that tries a little less strenuously to make a statement, but you can't fault the couple's commercial instincts: During a recent stay, a party was held each night somewhere in the hotel, while a clutch of paparazzi waited outside for someone fabulous to exit.

Rumours about less than professional behaviour – strenuously denied by the club – won't go away in a hurry until the self-declared "King" starts performing in way that doesn't bring to mind Las Vegas-era Elvis.

It's a fact that co-founder Justin Mateen has been strenuously denying more or less since day one.

Ingenious and slick though this staging was, a less claustrophobic setting might not compete so strenuously with the music.

Republican officials also note that no matter how tenuous Mr. Bush's mandate, he must follow through on his promises because he so strenuously presented himself as a leader less vulnerable to popular opinion than, in his estimation, Mr. Clinton.

The more strenuously action-packed the story becomes, the less engrossing it is.