Soccer is the Canada of American sports, viewed less with contempt than with indifference.
Democrats are viewed less favorably than at any time in modern history.
The cabinet appointments can be viewed less political mistakes than failed experiments.
Months into her second term, her unwillingness to make hard choices is being viewed less charitably.
But in the long term, it may well be viewed less favourably.
But outside the world of country music, Mr. Jackson is often viewed less respectfully, not as an American original but as a Nashville clone.
(The liberal Islamist party now in power in Ankara is already viewed less skeptically by the Kurds than its predecessors were).
Where studios could get into trouble, though, is if mobile phone episodes like these are viewed less as promotional material and more as pure entertainment.
But through much of Latin America, Spaniards are viewed less charitably; to speak with a Spanish accent is considered a real handicap.
According to one of my fellow Founders over 50, Suzanne Noble of Frugl, it can – older entrepreneurs, she says, are viewed less favourably if they're looking for investment.
Polls show he is viewed less favorably by voters today than he was when he left the presidential race of 2000.
