Sentence examples for were less valuable as from inspiring English sources

Number of patches, perimeter-to-area ratio, mean patch size and related metrics were less valuable as they exhibited variable responses with progressive deforestation.

Kotsko's book may be less valuable as cultural analysis than as an artifact of its time.

In the end, "The Future of Ideas" is less valuable as legal scholarship than as sweeping cultural criticism.

It was less valuable as a model of journalistic interrogation: Rodriguez was allowed to make a case for torture, and promote his book, "Hard Measures," under fairly mild questioning.

A raped woman or girl was less valuable as property, and penalties for rape often involved fines or other compensation paid to her husband or father (Burgess-Jackson 1996, 68).

It's less valuable as a charger for other iPod models, though still has value on the road (on an airplane or as spare power to carry in a briefcase, for instance) for emergency charging.

Calcification in the thoracic and abdominal aorta may be less valuable as an independent marker of risk.

Although inter-rater agreement is valuable to test whether children behave similarly across situations, its use may be less valuable as a psychometric property.

Accordingly, this peak in SAA concentrations is likely to decay over time due to an adaption of the immune system to the new environmental flora [ 46], and acute phase proteins appears to be less valuable as indicators for PMWS.

Put options are cheaper if they are less valuable to investors as protection against price collapses, and the index puts are a lot cheaper than the appropriately weighted sum of put options on individual bank stocks, particularly during the recent financial crisis.

As president, Mr. Bush was known as a more moderate Republican, a fact that could mean his support is less valuable to Mr. Romney as he courts conservatives in Iowa and elsewhere.