Sentence examples for less the opportunity from inspiring English sources

People who earn higher wages generally do work more than people who earn less; the opportunity cost of each hour of leisure is higher.

My proposal would essentially predict the opposite: the less the opportunity for sexual dalliance, the more important it is to tend to one's partner.

Germany has long specialised in this kind of high-concept directors' theatre; few British directors get the budget, still less the opportunity to hone productions over time (Hamlet has been touring for three years, on and off).

The papers read as if they don't trust their daughters to do the right thing by steering clear of the temptation of birth control, unless they can be absolutely sequestered from contact with even the barest hint of free contraception, much less the opportunity to acquire it on their own. .

We'll be forced into a continuing resolution and for the second year in a row no one will address the challenges, much less the opportunities that are widely available".

As we lost our skills at the stove, we also lost something less tangible but no less important: the opportunity to spend time together in the kitchen, talking and cooking.

"In the end I think we more or less maximised the opportunity.

Wynton Marsalis, the virtuoso trumpet player who has long been the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, said the financial windfall mattered less than the opportunity to spread American culture and to introduce new audiences to jazz.

But if empowerment means anything then it means giving people with less power the opportunity to get those with more power to do things they would otherwise not want to do.

With Obama's re-election, the pressure would be less but the opportunity could be greater.

Even less have the opportunity to file lawsuits on their own.