Quite often, precious metals were alloyed with less valuable substances as a means to deceive buyers.

Costume jewelry is made of less valuable materials including base metals, glass, plastic, and synthetic stones ; in place of more valuable materials such as precious metals and gems.

Though it receives less attention, an understanding of human visual perception is valuable to rendering.

In terms of its value as a collector's item, a coin is generally made more or less valuable by its condition, specific historical significance, rarity, quality / beauty of the design and general popularity with collectors.

Less expensive student bows may be constructed of solid fiberglass, or of less valuable varieties of brazilwood.

Other areas of the Gulf Coast have benefited less, though economic development fueled by tourism has greatly increased property values along the coast, and is now a severe danger to the valuable but fragile ecosystems of the Gulf Coast.

Negative network externalities can also occur, where more users make a product less valuable, but are more commonly referred to as " congestion " ( as in traffic congestion or network congestion ).

" Alessandro Portelli argues that oral history is valuable nevertheless: " it tells us less about events as such than about their meaning [...] the unique and precious element which oral sources force upon the historian [...] is the speaker's subjectivity.

Steals are done with hands less valuable than what might normally be considered a raising hand, normally a below average one, with the hope that the few players remaining will not have a hand worth calling the raise, thereby winning the antes or blinds without further action.

In general, cultured pearls are less valuable than natural pearls, whereas imitation pearls almost have no value.

Ultimately, Hussein only became King of Hijaz in the then less strategically valuable south, but lost his Caliphate throne when the kingdom was sacked by the Najdi Ikhwan forces of the Saudites and forcefully incorporated into the newly-created Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ).

First, the gold specie standard is a system in which the monetary unit is associated with circulating gold coins, or with the unit of value defined in terms of one particular circulating gold coin in conjunction with subsidiary coinage made from a less valuable metal.

This would effectively make small donations more valuable to a campaign, potentially leading them to put more effort into pursuing such donations, which are believed to have less of a corrupting effect than larger gifts and enhance the power of less-wealthy individuals.

Since some intruders will decide not to attempt to break into such areas or vehicles, there can actually be less damage to windows in addition to protection of valuable objects inside.

The fewer the number and the less obvious the imperfections, the more valuable the ruby is ; unless there are no imperfections ( i. e., a " perfect " ruby ), in which case it will be suspected of being artificial.

Risks of crop rotation include less overall profitability due to decreased acreage of the most valuable crop.

A knight is about as valuable as a bishop, but less valuable than a rook.

As each of the short-lived emperors took power they needed ways to raise money quickly to pay the military's " accession bonus " and the easiest way to do so was by simply cutting the silver in coins and adding less valuable metals like bronze or copper.

Ordinary people may tend to imagine other people as basically the same, not significantly more or less valuable, probably attached emotionally to different groups and different land.

New France ( Canada ) was considered less valuable, as its only significant commercial product at the time was beaver pelts.

Due to the numerous interactions between the biosphere, atmosphere and hydrosphere that are hosted within the pedosphere, more integrated, less soil-centric concepts are also valuable.

The study of openings in Chess960 is in its infancy, but fundamental opening principles still apply, including: protect the king, control the central squares ( directly or indirectly ), and develop rapidly, starting with the less valuable pieces.

they include harmonies and conflicts within the whole man, and mechanisms whereby inner components are more or less smoothly met.

However, in the context of legal and civic policy, these controversies are less than novel.

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.

By comparison, Stone Harbor bird sanctuary's allies seem less formidable, for aside from the Audubon Society, they are mostly the snowy, common and cattle egrets and the Louisiana, green, little blue and black-crowned herons who nest and feed there.

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.

However, he states unequivocally `` the scandals in business are far less significant than the scandals in labor ''.

They are less vocal now, when it is the West Berliners who are migrating.

But a great many of what Variety calls the `` Cooch Terpers '' are considerably less cosmic than that.

But a great many of the dancers are more or less native.

Even then, a few of the `` less interesting '' questions are edited out and glibly summarized by a commentator.

More importantly, several of the more advanced of the less developed countries have found through experience that they must plan their own complex investment programs for at least 5 years forward and tentatively for considerably more than that if they are to be sure that the various interdependent activities involved are all to take place in the proper sequence.

If the less developed countries are to be persuaded to adopt a long-term approach, the United States, as the principal supplier of external aid, must be prepared to give long-term commitments.

Assessors in Rhode Island are charged not only with placing a valuation upon real and personal property, but they also have the responsibility to raise by a tax `` a sum not less than nor more than '' a specified amount as ordered by a city council or financial town meeting.

somewhat less likely sources are the heavier hydrides SH, SiH, and Aj.

More than 36 other big Navy ships are no less than a day's sailing time away.

The funds recouped by reductions in item 12 above are used: first, to increase the unadjusted allotments to the specified minimum in those States where the unadjusted allotment is less than the minimum allotment ( item 13 above ) ; ;

These roads are largely of less than highway standards, and usually carry traffic which is related to use of the National Forests.

and they are dashed, no less, by lack of skill in making selections of men and women for development toward the highest reaches of the mind and spirit.

There, forces are more latent than in electricity, and less than in magnetism.

According to one major producer, materials for a typical plastic sign are approximately 25% less costly than for a comparable neon unit.

The lighter weight also means less costly supports and mountings are needed.

After the first month, rates are considerably less, averaging only about $60 a month for most 4- and 5-passenger models.

The detective, commenting on Barco's behavior, felt that he merely belonged among the myriad citizens of our community who are mentally unhinged -- that he was a more or less harmless `` nut ''!!