Sentence examples for wreak less from inspiring English sources

If Greece were given a couple more years to shrink its bureaucracy, rein in public spending, tighten the tax system, privatize state assets and revive growth, an orderly restructuring might wreak less damage.

Somehow, though, the lesson Task has taken away is that gloomy forecasts are "fear tactics," and that what we should have learned from our experience with Lehman and the bank bailout is that letting companies go under will wreak less havoc than we think.

The household sector as a whole has used the release of housing equity mainly to build up financial assets rather than to finance consumption.Since the link between house prices and consumer spending has weakened in recent years (see chart), this suggests that falling house prices will wreak less economic damage than in the past.

To Cantor's credit, enacting a measure that delayed all of Obamacare's provisions for a year would wreak less havoc in the insurance market than defunding the law.

If the storm peters out in the gulf, or wreaks less damage than expected, that decision could end up being a good one, providing Mr. Romney with just the kind of attention in front of millions of viewers that his campaign has planned for.

Williams would not concede and wreaked considerably less havoc on the Indians than in previous years.

But the weakened storm that swept ashore on Mexico's gulf coast on Wednesday wreaked far less havoc than many anticipated it would.

Gun homicides remain more common and of more concern to the police, because of drive-by shootings, the potential to wreak more death in less time, and the distance a gunman can keep from the actual crime scene, taking aim from afar.

To be sure, this promise may have relatively little impact on the more affluent, aging coastal communities but it could wreak havoc on younger, less tony areas in the state's interior.

This kind of "modular" change is far less likely to wreak havoc on an organism and so is much more likely to be used by evolution.

MarketWatch columnist David Weidner thinks that people like Bret Grebow would be less likely to wreak havoc if the hedge fund industry would just regulate itself.