Sentence examples for much less guard from inspiring English sources

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was so bent on proving his theory of lightning warfare that he ignored the generals who said an understaffed and underarmed invasion force could rush to Baghdad, but couldn't hold the rest of the country, much less guard things like the ammunition dump.

Of the changes wrought by the televised news conference, he writes: Before the advent of television, the president was much less guarded in his statements.

On the 1990 Sound And Vision tour, he was much less guarded and seemed to want to be the person diving in the pool with everyone else.

American soldiers nearby made no effort to stop them, much less provide a guard.

Far more assets at much less cost than guards.

Why did the beta males guard much less than the alpha males?

They obtained a positive regression of mass vs. guarding effort due to the inclusion of guarding by young immature group members, which were both lighter in weight and guarded much less than the adults.

Five of our beta males were heavier than the alpha males in their groups (Table 3), but guarded much less than the alpha.

Kabul is a city in the midst of a construction boom, and on every other block in heavily populated areas there are either unfinished or unoccupied buildings, often with few guards to stop people, much less gunmen, from entering.

The doyen of the party's socialist old guard (see article), Mr Lafontaine is much less of a moderniser than Mr Schröder, and is far less keen to reform Germany's increasingly unaffordable social-security system.

Professional auctioneers often use that appeal for much less pricey treasures, entreating bidders to raise their bids to guard the national heritage.