Sentence examples for much less tightly from inspiring English sources

Specifically, this peptide binds much more tightly to anionic than to zwitterionic phospholipids and much less tightly to cholesterol-containing than to cholesterol-free model membranes.

As expected, then, electrons in the 5f orbitals, being farther from the nucleus, are much less tightly bound than those in 4f orbitals and, in fact, sometimes are active enough to take part in chemical reactions.

Since phosphorus also has one more proton in its nucleus than silicon does, taken together the extra particles resemble a hydrogen atom: a single electron tethered to a single proton.However, the extra electron is much less tightly held by the extra proton in this pseudo-hydrogen than it would be in real hydrogen.

Equivalent markets in North America, Latin America and Asia are much less tightly regulated, leaving operators like Verizon, AT&T and China Mobile with much greater profitability.

The "gravito-magnetic" trap holds atoms much less tightly than a purely magnetic trap, so it allows researchers to work with lower density samples and achieve lower temperatures, says Ketterle, who shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of the BEC.

When compared to 135K/25Na/50HEPES/10Mg, probe 33 67) binds much less tightly in 140Na/80HEPES/10Mg, but more tightly in 135K/25Na/50HEPES/1MNa.

I don't need yet another gadget to haul around all day, much less one that would handcuff me so tightly to my work e-mail.

Too many school districts are run as tightly held principalities, rarely sharing costs, much less ideas.

In contrast, circulating levels of less active precursor peptides are less tightly controlled and, therefore, have a much higher diagnostic and prognostic range.

With a population under 5 million and no major industry, Costa Rica uses much less power than most developed countries, and its geography of tightly packed volcanoes, rivers and mountains is more suited to producing clean power than most.

However, this is presented as a largely unregulated process of highly promiscuous recombination between unrelated genes, while our observations suggest a process tightly regulated by structural homology and, consequently, with much less scope for introducing novelty.