He had spent two hours riding around the ranch that morning, and in broad daylight it was even less inviting than Judith Pierce had made it seem.

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.

There were no less than six or seven saloons in Ganado, not counting the lower class dives, all vying for the trade of celebrating miners and teamsters.

Bryn Mawr Drive is only two or three miles from the Spartan, and it took me less than five minutes to get there.

After all, he had less reason to desire it than the marine.

His thoughts for the swanlike neck, the full, high breasts, the slim waist, and the long legs were less than poetic, however.

Among Bourbons the racial issue may have less to do with their remaining unreconstructed than other factors.

less than a score of years later Congress enacted the Employment Act of 1946, by which the national government assumed the responsibility of taking action to insure conditions of maximum employment.

Poetry for a Persian is nothing less than truth and beauty.

Less dazzling than Hamilton, less eloquent than Jefferson, John Jay commands an equally high rank among the Founding Fathers.

Some painters have less interest in the experience of the moment, with its attendant urgencies and ambiguities, than in looking beyond the flux of particular impressions to a higher, more serene level of truth.

It is much less difficult now than in Lincoln's day to see that on both sides sovereign Americans had given their lives in the Civil War to maintain the balance between the powers they had delegated to the States and to their Union.

The only extended view possible to anyone less tall than the fences was that obtained from an upper bough of the apple tree.

In the pre-Civil War years, the South argued that the slave was not less humanely treated than the factory worker of the North.

At first glance, this hero seems to be more rather than less of an individualist than any of his predecessors.

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 ; ;

The fact that he has cast over those materials the light of a skeptical mind does not make him any the less Southern, I rather think, for the South has been no more solid than other regions except in the political and related areas where patronage and force and intimidation and fear may produce a surface uniformity.

Their books found no less willing readers outside than inside the South, even while memories of the war were still sharp.

A Comedy In Three Acts '', in which, under `` Personages '', Henrietta appeared as `` A Schoolmarm '', and Bertha, who was only a trifle less brilliant in high school than Henrietta had been, appeared as `` Dummkopf ''.

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.

`` A portable companion always ready to go where you go -- a small friend weighing less than a freshborn infant -- to be shared with few or many -- just two of you in sweet meditation ''.

An alternative classification, though one with much less currency among Altaicists, was proposed by John C. Street ( 1962 ), according to which Turkic-Mongolic-Tungusic forms one grouping and Korean-Japanese-Ainu another, the two being linked in a common family that Street designated as " North Asiatic ".

Helicopter pads are available at 27 stations ; runways at 15 locations are gravel, sea-ice, blue-ice, or compacted snow suitable for landing wheeled, fixed-wing aircraft ; of these, 1 is greater than 3 km in length, 6 are between 2 km and 3 km in length, 3 are between 1 km and 2 km in length, 3 are less than 1 km in length, and 2 are of unknown length ; snow surface skiways, limited to use by ski-equipped, fixed-wing aircraft, are available at another 15 locations ; of these, 4 are greater than 3 km in length, 3 are between 2 km and 3 km in length, 2 are between 1 km and 2 km in length, 2 are less than 1 km in length, and data is unavailable for the remaining 4.

As a pathway is more or less sequential in nature, it is a victim of causality ; removing or modifying one component leads to an effect in another.

Whorf described a workplace in which full gasoline drums were stored in one room and empty ones in another ; he said that because of flammable vapor the " empty " drums were more dangerous than those that were full, although workers handled them less carefully to the point that they smoked in the room with " empty " drums, but not in the room with full ones.

# Interference by concurrent parasitic infection: In another hypothesis, simultaneous infection with parasites changes the immune response to BCG, making it less effective.

Bongos have no special secretion glands and so rely less on scent to find one another than do other similar antelopes.

E. coli bacteria on the left are resistant to beta-lactam antibiotics, and grow next to one antibiotic ( bottom ) and are less inhibited by another antibiotic ( top ).

The Universal Copyright Convention was drafted in 1952 as another less demanding alternative to the Berne Convention, and ratified by nations such as the Soviet Union and developing nations.

Indeed, in those cases where no clear consensus exists on a given norm, the drafting of criminal law by the group in power to prohibit the behaviour of another group may seem to some observers an improper limitation of the second group's freedom, and the ordinary members of society have less respect for the law or laws in general — whether the authorities actually enforce the disputed law or not.

A person who garners a degree of fame in one culture may be considered less famous or obscure in another.

However, another observer cannot benefit until the results of that measurement have been relayed to him, at less than or equal to the speed of light.

When disaggregated, only petroleum and non-petroleum groupings showed different results: a country with relatively low levels of dependence on petroleum exports is at slightly less risk, while a high-level of dependence on oil as an export results in slightly more risk of a civil war than national dependence on another primary commodity.

Phrased another way: young males ( who make up the vast majority of combatants in civil wars ) are less likely to join a rebellion if they are getting an education and / or have a comfortable salary, and can reasonably assume that they will prosper in the future.

Therefore I propose to the comrades that they devise a way of shifting Stalin from this position and appointing to it another man who in all other respects falls on the other side of the scale from Comrade Stalin, namely, more tolerant, more loyal, more polite and considerate of comrades, less capricious and so forth.

Besides the advantages offered by such a plan, in setting immediately before the eyes of the student the final results of the investigation in a more concrete form, and thereby rendering easier his insight into the nature of particular Indo-European languages, there is, I think, another of no less importance gained by it, namely that it shows the baselessness of the assumption that the non-Indian Indo-European languages were derived from Old-Indian ( Sanskrit ).

Dissatisfied with the King Bees and their repertoire of Howlin ' Wolf and Willie Dixon blues numbers, Bowie quit the band less than a month later to join the Manish Boys, another blues outfit, who incorporated folk and soul — " I used to dream of being their Mick Jagger ", Bowie was to recall.

In large cities, however, because many make demands on each trade, one alone is enough to support a man, and often less than one: for instance one man makes shoes for men, another for women, there are places even where one man earns a living just by mending shoes, another by cutting them out, another just by sewing the uppers together, while there is another who performs none of these operations but assembles the parts, Of necessity, he who pursues a very specialised task will do it best.

From Keban to the Syrian – Turkish border, the river drops another over a distance of less than.

Foonly Inc. did not acquire any financial resources as a result of building the F-1, and the company's smaller, slower, and much less expensive machines ran not the popular TOPS-20 but another TENEX variant called Foonex ; this seriously limited their market.

They had another virtue in the Ottonian scheme: as celibates they were less likely to establish hereditary lineages.