Sentence examples for making a less from inspiring English sources

Though one organizer with a loud speaker encouraged participants to take "autonomous action" and engage in civil disobedience, most demonstrators seemed intent on making a less confrontational statement.

I should have made myself known to an acolyte, perhaps, or found some way of making a less direct, more deferential approach.

Some, making a less obvious connection, think that Turkish debt prices may have fallen slightly in response to the woes on the other side of the Black Sea.Overall, though, trading in emerging-market debt remains remarkably buoyant.

He said the decision wasn't about saving face in the event Anthony wouldn't sign a contract extension with the Nets, nor was it a ploy to pressure the Denver Nuggets into making a less costly deal.

But that's not all - Wayne Rooney is next to him, making a less than friendly gesture in apparent reference to the unholy row between the pair during the spectacularly dismal qualifying defeat to Northern Ireland in Belfast.

Outkast's history is definitely an interesting one, with the pair popularising Dirty South hip hop from their native Atlanta and going on to have huge success with double album Speakerboxx/The Love Below, before making a less well-received music film accompanying album and going on haitus.

The last time I had seen Lindy Boggs, she was making a less-than-convincing attempt to leave politics.

By making a less-fashionable choice, and demonstrating that 'international' doesn't have to mean 'American', they have allowed writers to raise their expectations of this prize.

By contrast, the randomness of a password depends largely on whether it was created automatically by a random-number generator (better), or by the user making a less-than-arbitrary choice (worse).

Humour is a rare relief:  one J Murphy was a Royal New Zealand Air Force paratrooper who writes entertainingly about making a less-than-perfect landing behind enemy lines on a barbed wire fence, and his subsequent search for locals to whom he could entrust his life.

As a group, entrees made a less compelling showing.