Sentence examples for less vicious than from inspiring English sources

Civil unions are much harder to condemn.Yet even as both sides prepare for another mighty culture war, there are some grounds for hoping that this will be less vicious than the abortion conflict.

As he tells it, the knock-down-drag-out fights over these matters (his gonads were threatened by a fellow member of the social-care commission) were no less vicious than the fight to control the Labour Party in the 1970s.There are ways in which this well-written book could have been better.

Behind closed doors, it is fair to assume that politics in China are no less vicious than in the Rome of Julius Caesar.The sacking on March 15th of Bo Xilai as party chief of the south-western region of Chongqing provided a rare glimpse inside those doors.

Overt, unashamed racism, even when far less vicious than the sort displayed by Stephen Lawrence's killers, has become indecent.Supporters of the Lawrence family's campaign duly stressed that the murdered boy, while "not perfect" (in the words of a family lawyer) was studying for school-leavers' A-level exams and dreamed of being an architect.

To read an Orton play is to imagine Oscar Wilde as he might have been had he left prison a hardened not a broken man and then lived with people from the working and middle class who were no less selfish than his lover Lord Alfred Douglas and no less vicious than his lover's father.

Gen. Gadi Agmon, from the Israeli military's human resources branch, told a parliamentary committee here last week that the well-orchestrated campaign was no less vicious in style than that of Der Stürmer, the Nazi-era propaganda organ notorious for its anti-Semitic caricatures.

Though it was a less vicious exchange at PMQs than in recent weeks, the two leaders clashed over whether the government was supporting a move to close down loopholes by which workers are exploited by being posted overseas with conditions that undercut the host country.

But for the most part, the litany of proposed reforms has less to do with terminating Asia's recent recession than with making the next one less vicious and promoting faster growth in between.

Some criticism has been less vicious.

They will be easier to handle and less vicious.

But the interplay between the two senators, both well known and both with compelling personal narratives and a knack for infuriating their own parties' bases, could determine the tone of the 2008 presidential race and make it less personally vicious than the last two campaigns.