"With meager resources, an inadequate military culture and a weakening, less-than-reliable Soviet patron, Syria was in no position to maintain its policy of conventional parity.
By then the storm's winds had weakened to less than 138 km/hr (85 mph) at landfall.
By then the storm's winds had weakened to less than 85 miles (138 km) per hour at landfall.
Although Europe's economies are more vulnerable than the Schadenfreude about America found in Frankfurt or Brussels would indicate (see article), demand at least so far has weakened much less than in America, and the inflationary risks are higher.
In contrast, in immunocompetent mdx mice, the fluorescent intensity further weakened to less than 6% of the original value at week 11, suggesting that the immunological rejection response of the host probably played a role in the loss of transplanted myoblasts.
They want you to feel weakened and less than so that they can win the right that they never have to dominate you.
Other factors, too, have worked against things as they were: a relaxation — some would say collapse — of the old standards of discipline in the state schooling system, and in the influence of the Church of England, the nominal faith of more than 70 percent of the population, but so weakened now that less than 5 percent of all nominal Anglicans are regular churchgoers.
However, our expression vector (a weakened pTrc99A [16]) produces less than 5⋅103 proteins in the absence of IPTG [25], and already at these low expression levels the marked difference in protein level between OmpA with a FLAG insertion and OmpA without insertion is observed (Figure 5).
The bill before Congress, which could be further weakened, now calls for less than a 4percentt reduction over that period.
By contrast, Hahn (1933, drawn from lectures in 1932) pointed out that hypotheses should be counted as properly meaningful as well and that the criterion be weakened to allow for less than conclusive verifiability.
