Sentence examples for less than outright from inspiring English sources
Killing animals for human food and finery is nothing less than "outright murder," he said, Isaac Bashevis Singer's "eternal Treblinka".
And the guerrillas of the Free Aceh Movement, known by its vernacular acronym, GAM, still say they will accept nothing less than outright independence.The general dislike of the authorities is not quite the same as fervent support for the GAM.
But Simon is far too smart to add, as so many counter-factual writers do, that anything less than outright victory over the Argentinian invaders in 1982 would have finished off Margaret Thatcher.
In the end, Apple will settle for nothing less than outright capitulation by Samsung – and, by extension, other Android device makers – in what Jobs called a "thermonuclear war", which he planned, before his death, to wage on Android.
He added the "second degree of the affix for expectation of outcome" to suggest an element of surprise that is more than mere unpreparedness but less than outright shock, and the "third degree of the affix for contextual appropriateness" to suggest an element of impropriety that is less than scandalous but more than simply eyebrow-raising.
In Iran, where huge numbers of voters turned out for parliamentary elections last week, the results will take days to compile and it is possible that reformers, divided among themselves and deprived of some of their best candidates by pre-election screeners loyal to Ayatollah Khamenei, may have to settle for something less than outright victory.
Regardless of the true nature of granola bars and the like (most of them are nutritionally comparable to cookies), parents' perception of them as less harmful than outright dessert food for snacks has made them a staple.
Although less attractive than outright grants and tax breaks, there are also low-interest loan programs for businesses and nonprofit organizations available through the Small Business Administration and other agencies in the city and downtown.
The means of destruction may be more sophisticated in the modern West, and the exploitation may be less direct than outright slavery, but blind, fear-driven domination continues, with ever greater global consequences.
While punishment could include impeachment (expulsion) from the Senate, often a punishment was less severe than outright expulsion.
