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If the resulting difference for the particular State is less or more than these extremes, the State's allotment percentage must be raised or lowered to the appropriate extreme.
If the resulting difference for the particular State is less or more than these extremes, the State's Federal share must be raised or lowered to the appropriate extreme.
The following is a less extreme example of dependence.
On the morning following the Pratt Hall meeting the editor of the Providence Daily Journal wrote that although the meeting was milder and less extreme than those held in other areas for similar purposes, it could have been avoided completely.
Because of the ocean's great capacity to store and release heat, maritime climates are more moderate and have less extreme seasonal variations than inland climates.
In 2005 the World Bank defined extreme poverty as living on less than US $ 1. 25 a day.
The city suffered extreme overcrowding and deplorable sanitary conditions up to 1875 when the medieval fortifications were finally abandoned as a limit to building operations and new, less miserable quarters were built in the eastern part of the city, where drainage of waste liquids was easiest.
Fans call a less extreme literary technique that erases one episode the reset button.
Seasonal temperature variation is less extreme than most of the United Kingdom because of the adjacent sea, which moderates temperature.
Middle school cheerleaders use the same cheerleading movements as their older counterparts, but perform less extreme stunts, ranging from simple elevators, knee stands, extensions to harder stunts such as the heel stretch and scorpion.
"</ ref > There is another form of Type III called matwasat, where the stitching of the vulva is less extreme and the hole left is bigger.
In summer it is a little less rainy than the Pacific area but sometimes experiences extreme high temperatures due to the foehn wind phenomenon.
The entire state is vulnerable to a tornado strike, with the extreme southern portion of the state slightly less so than the rest of the state.
The area receives approximately two to three inches ( 5 – 7 cm ) more precipitation than most of Hungary, resulting in more cloudy days and less extreme temperatures.
In extreme cases, 2 to 3 inches of ice can form on the leading edge of the airfoil in less than 5 minutes.
Many patients report that Methadone's sedation effect is often less pronounced than with other opioids and cite this as a major argument for preferring Methadone as an analgesic .< ref > Persons reciveing MMT should not suffer from extreme sedation as a resullt of the treatment, due to the fact that a properly prescribed person will have had their dose titrated up to the optimal level to remove the effects of withdrawl, a point at which sedation should not be evident.
Thin transparent sheets of mica called " isinglass " were used for peepholes in boilers, lanterns, stoves, and kerosene heaters because they were less likely to shatter than glass when exposed to extreme temperature gradients.
Many people live in extreme poverty, with about one third of the population living on less than US $ 1. 25 per day.
By late 2374, Worf and Jadzia are married less than a year when they decided to try to have a child despite the extreme difficulties posed by the disparate biologies of Trill and Klingons.
For the most extreme, to be a Catholic now meant to believe more or less anything one wished to believe, or at least in the sense in which one personally interpreted it.
A less extreme possibility would be that it was merely the Earth's magnetic pole that wandered to this inclination, as the magnetic readings which suggested ice-filled continents depends on the magnetic and rotational poles being relatively similar.
" Most of his movies are shot almost entirely with rectilinear ultra wide angle lenses of 28 mm focal length or less in order to achieve a distinctive signature style defined by extreme perspective distortion and extremely deep focus.
In these extreme situations, any medical care given to people who will die anyway can be considered to be care withdrawn from others who might have survived ( or perhaps suffered less severe disability from their injuries ) had they been treated instead.
According to Derek Parfit, using total happiness falls victim to the Repugnant Conclusion, whereby large numbers of people with very low but non-negative utility values can be seen as a better goal than a population of a less extreme size living in comfort.
According to the Curtiss-Wright research, the extreme that controls the amount of unburned HC in the exhaust is the rotor surface temperature, higher temperatures producing less HC.

less and similar
These conjugates Af had much less nonspecific staining than the previous conjugate ( with 50 mg FITC per gram of globulin ) while the specific staining was similar in both cases.
The amphibian brain is less well developed than that of reptiles, birds and mammals but is similar in morphology and function to that of a fish.
Because and can be very similar numbers, the precision of the result can be much less than the inherent precision of the floating-point arithmetic used to perform the computation.
Fine arts artists such as painters succeeded in the Renaissance in raising their status, formerly similar to these workers, to a decisively higher level, but in the 20th century the distinction became rather less relevant.
According to the teaching of Arius, the preexistent Logos and thus the incarnate Jesus Christ was a created being ; that only the Son was directly created and begotten by God the Father, before ages, but was of a distinct, though similar, essence or substance from the Creator ; his opponents argued that this would make Jesus less than God, and that this was heretical.
Its latest meaning is more or less similar to the Sanskrit word kalpa and Hebrew word olam.
Vorbis offers compression similar to MP3 but is less popular.
Critics of the SAP argue in favor of a weak anthropic principle ( WAP ) similar to the one defined by Brandon Carter, which states that the universe's ostensible fine tuning is the result of selection bias: i. e., only in a universe capable of eventually supporting life will there be living beings capable of observing any such fine tuning, while a universe less compatible with life will go unbeheld.
* Student Acrylics have working characteristics similar to professional artist acrylics, but with lower pigment concentrations, less expensive formulas, and a smaller range of colors.
This would make US cars more expensive and Canadian cars less so until their prices were similar.
* Alpha brasses with less than 35 % zinc, are malleable, can be worked cold, and are used in pressing, forging, or similar applications.
In Europe a similar liquid process in open-topped crucibles took place which was probably less efficient than the Roman process and the use of the term tutty by Albertus Magnus in the 13th century suggests influence from Islamic technology.
The phrase ' advanced composites ' in FRP construction may indicate the addition of carbon fibre, kevlar ( tm ) or other similar materials, but it may also indicate other methods designed to introduce less expensive and, by at least one yacht surveyor's eyewitness accounts, less structurally sound materials.
Their graphics and animation are based directly on the original Bubble Bobble, only larger ( very similar to Bubble Symphony which was released less than a month later ).
Bongos have no special secretion glands and so rely less on scent to find one another than do other similar antelopes.
Starting from the political purges in the Soviet Union during the Thirties, similar “ brainwashing ” techniques were intermittently and less systematically used by most Stalinist regimes of the twentieth century.
It is derived from the native cooking styles of the Huangshan Mountains region in China and is similar to Jiangsu cuisine, but with less emphasis on seafood and more on a wide variety of local herbs and vegetables.
The effects of bufotenin are thought to be similar to those of mild poisoning ; the stimulation, which includes mild hallucinations, lasts for less than an hour.
Most crochet uses far less than 1 / 3 more yarn than knitting for comparable pieces, and a crocheter can get similar feel and drape to knitting by using a larger hook or thinner yarn.
The biggest advantage to digital cable telephone service is similar to the advantage of digital cable TV, namely that data can be compressed, resulting in much less bandwidth used than a dedicated analog circuit-switched service.
By the end of the decade, similar calculators were priced less than $ 10 (£ 5 ).
DNA evidence suggests the bonobo and common chimpanzee species separated from each other less than one million years ago ( similar in relation between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals ).
The ultimate leaf divisions are broad, slightly broader than the similar leaves of fennel, which are threadlike, less than broad, but harder in texture.

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