Less than a month after his controversial instruction to the unit, Smyth was shot dead by an IRA party led by Dan " Sandow " O ' Donovan.

Though Ellis made his debut at 21 with the controversial 1985 bestseller Less Than Zero, a zeitgeist novel about amoral young people in Los Angeles ; the work he is most known for is his third novel, 1991's American Psycho.

Less controversial than external bodies editing movies were the rise of director's cut editions of movies, which flourished with the advent of DVDs.

Less controversial, however, was the SASR's involvement in the boarding of the North Korean freighter MV Pong Su in 2003.

The Bias Against Guns: Why Almost Everything You've Heard About Gun Control Is Wrong is a book by John Lott, following up on his controversial More Guns, Less Crime.

* In June 2010, the company was criticized for having made a controversial T-shirt saying " Eat Less ".

Less controversial applications of bid and ask matching include:

Less controversial are bars to any cases that would give extraterritorial effect to laws which are confiscatory, seeking to collect taxes owing in another state, or penal, i. e. laws that are designed to punish the party committing the wrong, rather than to compensate the party that suffered loss or injury.

Less controversial is the exclusion of foreign laws that are penal or territorial because they seek to collect taxes due to another state, e. g. in English Law, if foreign exchange control legislation is used as " an instrument of oppression ", it may be denied extraterritorial enforcement ( Re Helbert Wagg & Co Ltd Ch 323, 351 ).

* Less subject to external artifacts, such as electrical noise or signal interference due to metal, because HEG is a measure of blood flow and not electrical activity

* Less subject to surface artifacts, such as eye and facial movements

Less ambitious freeway plans may be more successful -- especially when the roadways and interchanges are raised, allowing for cross access at many points and providing parking areas below the ramp.

Less dramatic improvements are possible.

Less common are tandems, lowriders, tall bikes, fixed gear, folding models, amphibious bicycles and recumbents ( one of which was used to set the IHPVA Hour record ).

Less obvious is the fact that Puzzle Bobble also features all the enemies from Bubble Bobble, which are trapped inside the bubbles and fly out when the bubbles pop.

Less common are cardiac problems including cardiomyopathy and cardiac arrhythmia disorders.

Less illustrious uses refer to folklore and urban legend and a variety of explanatory narratives which are constructed with methodological flaws or biases.

Less than 1 % of all runway models are known to make more than $ 1000 dollars USD for every fashion showcase.

Less politically, most faiths have any number of people that are believed to have been touched by divine forces: saints, prophets, heroes, oracles, martyrs, and enlightened beings, among others.

Less common species such as Exmoor Horn and Cheviot are also to be found on Dartmoor.

Less common are well-documented cases with enough evidence to support the accusation.

Less than one-half of Ethiopia ’ s towns and cities are connected to the national grid.

Less than 10 % are Christians, mostly Roman Catholics.

Less than 65 % of children of primary school age are actually enrolled.

Less common are bara — larger, often heavily muscled and sometimes hairy males, the yaoi counterpart of the " bear " in gay pornography — as well as oyaji ( meaning " daddy " or " uncle "), featuring middle-aged and elderly men ; these types are mainly found in material aimed at gay men, which may be called bara or ' men's love ' ( ML ), and is considered to be distinct from yaoi.

Less likely is the commonly proposed derivation from Welsh arth " bear " + ( g ) wr " man " ( earlier * Arto-uiros in Brittonic ); there are phonological difficulties with this theory — notably that a Brittonic compound name * Arto-uiros should produce Old Welsh * Artgur and Middle / Modern Welsh * Arthwr and not Arthur ( in Welsh poetry the name is always spelled Arthur and is exclusively rhymed with words ending in-ur-never words ending in-wr-which confirms that the second element cannot be wr " man ").

Less common are proportional pneumatic valves or even various electrical actuators.

Less radical protests are also discussed, such as the various movements aimed at putting an end to sweatshop labour.

Less often seen are noun-verb combinations of two words, such as the line " The silence whistles " from Nathan Alterman's Summer Night, or in a record album title like Sounds of Silence.

* Less code required when applications are object oriented.

Less commonly, postage stamps are made of materials other than paper, such as embossed foil ( sometimes of gold ).

Less labor-intensive tools are more common now: a microplane or fine grater can be used to grind small amounts ; a coffee grinder is useful for larger amounts.

Less common are cherrywood, olivewood, maple, mesquite, oak, and bog-wood.

Less common are stems made of reeds, bamboo, or hollowed out pieces of wood.

Less frequently used types of materials include stag antler, buffalo horn and bone, as the time and effort needed to create one is often too much when conventional slides are available.

Less assured than the tall, wide-shouldered man in the lead, Cobb followed alertly, a hand on his gun butt.

Less than three hours ago we'd decided, in Maxine Wells's pad on Cosmo, to commit a trial murder.

Less than a year after retiring as a player, the Blues retired number 24 in his honor on March 16, 1992.

Less than a month later, on September 11, 1973, the Chilean military deposed Allende, who shot himself in the head to avoid capture as the Presidential Palace was surrounded and bombed.

Less dense fluids float on more dense fluids if they do not mix.

Less formally, the equivalence relation ker on X, takes each function f: X → X to its kernel ker f. Likewise, ker ( ker ) is an equivalence relation on X ^ X.

Less than a week after the Westminster convention ended, while Allen and the committee worked on their petition, the American Revolutionary War began.

Less restrictive censorship towards the end of the 1950s encouraged B-film producer Hammer Films to embark on their series of influential and wildly successful horror films.

Less than two years after its U. S release, King Kong vs. Godzilla was paid homage to by DC Comics, where the King Kong-like Titano battles the Godzilla-like Flame Dragon on the set of a monster movie.

Less than two days after arriving, Parsons died on September 19, 1973, in Joshua Tree, California, at the age of 26 from an overdose of morphine and alcohol.

Less than a month later, the Reichstag building was set on fire.

Less than seven weeks later, on 25 March, Bruce was crowned as King.

Less formally, people also use loan words within day-to-day speech, although this has been on the decline in recent decades and among younger generations.

Less than a month after Sentimental Journey was published, early in 1768, Sterne's strength failed him, and he died in his lodgings at 41 Old Bond Street on the 18 March, at the age of 54.

Less than one hour from the centre of the city, it is possible to see Little Penguins in all months, including visiting sensitive areas where they remain on land for extended periods for the purposes of moulting.

Less than 12 hours later, Indian paratroopers arrived on Hulele, causing some of the mercenaries to flee toward Sri Lanka in their freighter.

Less well known were a series of anti-shipping and anti-aircraft missiles, typically based on a simple radio control system directed by the operator.

Less than three weeks later, on November 18, 1903, the Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty was signed between Frenchman Philippe Bunau-Varilla, who had promptly been appointed Panamanian ambassador to the United States, representing Panamanian interests, and the United States Secretary of State John Hay.

Less rigorous than Francia, López loosened restrictions on foreign intercourse, boosted exports, invited foreign physicians, engineers, and investors to settle in Paraguay, and paid for students to study abroad.

Without doubt, the single most significant paper concerning the distribution of prime numbers was Riemann's 1859 memoir On the Number of Primes Less Than a Given Magnitude, the only paper he ever wrote on the subject.

Less conservative linguists have advanced proposals on the vocabulary and syntax of the ancestor language.

Less than three weeks later, Nurmi retired from running with a 10, 000 m victory in Viipuri on 16 September 1934.

Later in 1998, Crow took part in a live concert in tribute to Burt Bacharach, in which she contributed vocals on One Less Bell to Answer.