Sentence examples for owing less from inspiring English sources

This "Europe" is a misassembled, headless monster, owing less to Charlemagne than to Frankenstein.

In addition to owing less than £15,000, a debtor has to have less than £50 a month spare income, not own their home and have less than £300 worth of assets.

So far, the music is still more MTV than Brooklyn, with the lineup owing less to geography than to the needs of major-label pop stars with new albums to promote.

John Higgins, the 1998 world champion but with only one semi-final to show for his efforts on the circuit this season, completed a 10-4 first-round victoverover Michael Holt, the margin owing less to any excellence of his own than to the world No21's inability to deal with frustration.

"The thing that moves me most is the authenticity and the sincerity and the veracity of the voice," he said, "a tonal quality owing less to Broadway and far more to the Argentine singing and folk and tango tradition that she has by birth".

What I do hear in all of Stravinsky's music, as I do in Beethoven's, is a powerful and singular personality, immediately recognizable as Stravinsky, owing less to any application of the octatonic scale than to consistent aspects of instrumentation, articulation, melodic treatment and, most of all, a highly personal and innovative rhythmic sense.

Spanish banks owed less than $20 billion.

Governments owe less foreign-currency debt.

AMERICAN consumers owe less now than they did a year ago.

Only 209 owners owe less on their mortgages than the homes are worth.

The agency chose taxpayers who owed less than $25,000 and did not dispute the debt.