Phase II also included changes to the underlying inter-networking protocols to make them less " chatty ", which had previously been a serious problem on networks that bridged over wide-area networks.

The phrase is often used in a less serious manner in relation to someone or something that is out of control and causing trouble ( e. g., a dog tearing up the living room furniture might be said to be running amok ).

Oxcarbazepine, a derivative of carbamazepine, reportedly has fewer and less serious side-effects.

While the steps to follow in the case of a triumph of the " yes " option, which the document obviously anticipated, were clearly delineated, the steps for the " no " triumph were less so, but still clear enough that no serious doubt emerged when the " no " option actually was victorious in the 1988 plebiscite.

However, both the prosecution and defence may appeal against the verdict on questions of law and fact in less serious offences ; in more serious offences, appeals are restricted to questions of law.

) crimes ( more serious ) and delicts ( less serious ).

All felonies remain considered a serious crime, but concerns of proportionality ( i. e., that the punishment fit the crime ) have in modern times prompted legislatures to require or permit the imposition of less serious punishments, ranging from lesser terms of imprisonment to the substitution of a jail sentence or even the suspension of all incarceration contingent upon a defendant's successful completion of probation.

Benjamin D. Santer, a climate change researcher, wrote: The Global Climate Coalition-a less than disinterested party-has made serious allegations regarding the scientific integrity of the Lead Authors of Chapter 8, and of the IPCC process itself.

Similarly in New Zealand, a rape or murder charge will be tried at the High Court, while less serious offences such as theft, will be tried at the District Court.

Erik Satie was also considered in this category, though his approach was regarded as less serious, more musical novelty in nature.

Despite his reputation as a serious composer of large, complex musical structures, some of Brahms's most widely known and most commercially successful compositions during his life were small-scale works of popular intent aimed at the thriving contemporary market for domestic music-making ; indeed, during the 20th century, the influential American critic B. H. Haggin, rejecting more mainstream views, argued in his various guides to recorded music that Brahms was at his best in such works and much less successful in larger forms.

Because of his poor grades, his father forced him to transfer to the far more serious and academically oriented University of Berlin, where his legal studies became less significant to him than excursions into philosophy and history.

Consequently, " I like you " ( Wo xihuan ni, 我喜欢你 ) is a more common way of expressing affection in Chinese ; it is more playful and less serious.

Media coverage of mental illness comprises predominantly negative and pejorative depictions, for example, of incompetence, violence or criminality, with far less coverage of positive issues such as accomplishments or human rights issues .< ref > Such negative depictions, including in children's cartoons, are thought to contribute to stigma and negative attitudes in the public and in those with mental health problems themselves, although more sensitive or serious cinematic portrayals have increased in prevalence.

* Some scholars hold that many or most of the statements and events described in the Mishnah and Talmud usually occurred more or less as described, and that they can be used as serious sources of historical study.

In the revised edition, Marauders were made darker and less coherent, in keeping with the more serious treatment of madness used for Malkavians in Revised Vampire.

While overhydration is much less common than dehydration, it is also possible to drink far more water than necessary which can result in water intoxication, a serious and potentially fatal condition.

The retreat of the Arctic sea ice will accelerate global warming, as less ice cover reflects less solar radiation, and may have serious climate implications by contributing to Arctic cyclone generation.

This may mean that the defendant will plead guilty to a less serious charge, or to one of several charges, in return for the dismissal of other charges ; or it may mean that the defendant will plead guilty to the original criminal charge in return for a more lenient sentence.

In charge bargaining, defendants plead guilty to a less serious crime than the original charge.

In the same way, they should never go ahead with a more serious charge just to encourage a defendant to plead guilty to a less serious one.

not less strikingly so for being mysterious, as though some deeply hidden constatation of thoughts were enciphered in a single image, a single moment.

Yet with a mind less shallow, if less sharp, than some of the fortune-happy syndicates which back him, he feels what he cannot formulate ; ;

You probably would not remember, since you never seemed to remember even the same moments as I, much less their intensity, one sunny midday on Fifth Avenue when you had set out with me for some final shopping less than a week before the wedding you staged for me with such reluctance at the Farm.

Often these exercises work well for some bodybuilders but less spectacularly for others.

But having lived with the disc for some time now, I find the performance less exciting than either Schnabel's or Fleisher's ( whose superb performance with the Budapest Quartet has still to be recorded ) and a good deal less filled with humor than Curzon's.

Will your trade customers settle for less attention and fewer frills in return for some benefit they can share??

It may seem to some of them that success can be purchased much less dearly by fishing in the murky waters of international politics than by facing up to the intractable tasks at home.

The tensions accompanying a repressive consciousness of wrongdoing or sinning or some tormenting secret are relieved for the less self-contained or self-sufficient by confession, repentance, and penance.

From the point of view of the applicants, less time was wasted in being evaluated -- and they got a meal out of it as well as some insights into their performances.

Finally, since the public requires some restraint on the part of the companies, larger wage increases call for less than proportionately larger price increases ( e.g., if a wage increase of 5% allows a price increase of 7%, a wage increase of 10% allows a price increase of something less than 14% ).

'' Private Jenkins Lloyd Jones of the Wisconsin Light Artillery wrote in his diary: `` I strolled among the Alabamans on the right, found some of the greenest specimens of humanity I think in the universe, their ignorance being little less than the slave they despise with as imperfect a dialect.

and, now and in the future unlike in the past, any attempt to repel injury and to preserve any particular civilized attainment of mankind or its provisional justice runs some risk of nuclear warfare and the danger that an effect of it will, by human action, render this planet less habitable by the human race.

While both sexes state that kindness is the most preferable trait in a partner there is some evidence that men place less value on this than women and that women may not be more altruistic in presence of an attractive man.

While humans and other organisms generally place less value on future costs / benefits as compared to those in the present, some have shorter time horizons than others and these people tend to be less cooperative.

Thus, while altruistic persons may under some circumstances be outcompeted by less altruistic persons at the individual level, according to group selection theory the opposite may occur at the group level where groups consisting of the more altruistic persons may outcompete groups consisting of the less altruistic persons.

They are petiolate or perfoliate and more or less sheathing, the blade usually dissected and pinnatifid, but entire in some genera.

Many countries, including some US states, also permit the use of less severe corporal punishment for children in school.

At the end of 1874, when Field Marshal Serrano left Madrid to take command of the northern army in the Carlist War, Brigadier Martínez Campos, who had long been working more or less openly for the king, led some battalions of the central army to Sagunto, rallied to his own flag the troops sent against him, and entered Valencia in the king's name.

Indeed he seems more or less responsible together with Gasparo da Salò and some Micheli's like Zanetto or Pellegrino for giving the instruments of the modern violin family their definitive profile.

For less than a dozen miles from the unplowed land of the dead man lived another settler who had ignored the warnings that his existence might be foreclosed on -- a blatant and defiant rustler named Fred Powell.

Upon second thought we were forced to realize that we have very few reliable historical benchmarks against which we might compare the present situation, and that conclusions that present-day students are `` more '' or `` less '' religious could not be defended on the basis of our data.

All across the South there are signs that racial violence is finding less approval among whites who themselves would never take active part but might once have shown a tolerant attitude toward it.

Philosophy conceived of as servant to the sciences might appear as less dramatic than philosophy which jeers as the sciences evolve.

Perhaps if Felix had first come upon us when this boy was not cavorting so gaily up and down the hall outside the murdered woman's apartment, we might have had less trouble convincing Felix of our seriousness.

The jurors said they realize `` a proportionate distribution of these funds might disable this program in our less populous counties ''.

It might be argued that the Communists are less inhuman than the Nazis and furnish the artist with drama in a lower key.

He did it because he knows for each guy he puts out of commission that's one less who might take his job away later on.

And it might be, considering the uncomfortable custom the Angels had of thinking of everything in terms of absolutes, that the proposal of anything less might well amount instead to something like a declaration of war.

This algorithm is much less prone to loss of precision due to massive cancellation, but might not be as efficient because of the division operation inside the loop.

In poker, for example, the top card of the deck stub is burned at the beginning of each betting round, so that players who might have been able to read markings on that card during the previous round are less able to take advantage of that information.

Knowledge of a burn card might be marginally useful, such as knowing there is one less Ace in the deck, but far less so than having it in play.

By lowering the activation energy, the enzyme speeds up that reaction by a rate of 10 < sup > 11 </ sup > or more: a reaction that would normally take over 3, 000 years to complete spontaneously might take less than a second with an enzyme.

This restriction was based on the possibility that a small number of people might develop an allergic reaction to the Bt protein used in StarLink that is less rapidly digested than the version used in other Bt varieties.

These observations led him to suspect that the flea might be an intermediary factor in the transmission of plague, since people acquired plague only if they were in contact with recently dead rats, who had died less than 24 hours before.

Younger generations of Czechs living after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993 ( therefore generally less familiar with Slovak ) might also have some problems with a certain number of words and expressions which differ considerably in the two languages, and with false friends.

SRAM is commonplace in small embedded systems, which might only need tens of kilobytes or less.

The filter might also provide a false sense of security for parents, who might supervise children less while using the Internet, achieving the exact opposite effect.

Examples might be which spouse is more competent for a particular task or function ; which has better access to it ; or if they decide both are similarly competent and have comparable access, they might make the decision based on who prefers that function or task, or conversely, which of them dislikes it less than the other.

Also, new information might threaten the student ’ s concept of him-or herself ; therefore, the less vulnerable the student feels, the more likely he or she will be able to open up to the learning process.