Sentence examples for less than lay from inspiring English sources

But the Council, he proposed, had done nothing less than lay the groundwork for a "thorough reappraisal" of Catholicism.

And if what critics, no less than lay viewers, respond to most enthusiastically in "Moonrise Kingdom," are kids, love, optimistic fulfillment, and being sent home with a smile, it would be a crying shame.

Terms generally include the following items: calling ports, calling sequence, cargo freight, cargo time window (lay can), allowable cargo handling time (lay days), dispatch count if actual days are less than lay days, and demurrage count if more.

"There are few things I would like to do less than lie under a cloudy night sky while someone read aloud the more vivid passages of 'Moon,' " Andrew Postman wrote in The New York Times Book Review.

Through Bloody Sunday, whose ghosts and survivors I grew up among, it finally learned after 40 years that, although truth hurts, it hurts rather less than lies.

Similarly, we can show that every positive solution of (1.1), the maximum value on of which is less than lies on.

Altus, with a population less than 25,000, lies seven miles from the Texas border and 45 minutes from the closest city, Lawton.

I think that in the space of less than ten acres, lay the bodies of a thousand dead men and as many more wounded".

You can hire them as 'permanent' employees to pay them less than contractors, and lay them off at any moment.

Analysis of dbSNP data (release 129) indicated that whilst ∼60% of 193,133 validated SNPs on chromosome 16, with known ancestral state, occur at a CpG site, only ∼12% of them have gained the ability to methylate since their common ancestor and less than 0.5% lie within at least 75 bp of each other, as per rs7202116 and rs7202996.

B birds spent 9.7±2.1% of time perching, spent less time lying than L and W birds (P<0.05) and changed their feeding and drinking patterns (fewer observation periods containing bouts of both eating and drinking than C birds, P<0.05).