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The party retained control of the Senate, even though more than twice as many Republican seats were up for reelection than Democratic seats, and it lost just a handful of House seats, far fewer than the 20 predicted.
The president has fewer powers than it seems, overshadowed particularly by Supreme Guide Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
For example, automation will continue to make manufacturing more efficient and less costly, but it will also ensure that economic growth generates fewer jobs than in the past.
Unless we do that better, fewer people will vote for MEPs, more of them will be elected simply on a protest vote and represent Europe’s murky extremes, and the whole practice and principle of European democracy will be discredited.
By stubbornly pursuing an approach that has failed spectacularly in the past, Europe seems likely to consign itself to an ever-dwindling economic position in the world, with fewer jobs and less prosperity.
Moreover, the IMF announced a new financing program called a “Precautionary Credit Line,” which will provide funds more quickly and with even fewer conditions – even to countries without “sound public finance” and “effective financial supervision.”
He greatly preferred the Sustainable Development Goals’ predecessor, the Millennium Development Goals, which were fewer in number and reflected technocratic decision-making.
In the future, even liquid markets will be willing to intermediate fewer transactions than they were two months ago.
Two articles published in December show that an extremely high degree of precision and specificity of gene-editing is possible, and that anomalous cuts in DNA made by CRISPR-Cas9 can now be reduced to fewer than one per three trillion base pairs of DNA.
The smaller the market, the fewer the number of distributors that can serve it profitably.
But the fewer the number of distributors, the less competition there is.
Faced with fewer traditional employment opportunities, many poor women have no choice but to go into business for themselves; to succeed, they need government support.
With fewer opportunities to attend conferences abroad, publish papers in Western academic journals, or spend time teaching or conducting research outside of China, their professional development and careers could be severely impaired.
There is also a grain of truth in the connection between hurricanes and global warming: the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) expects stronger but fewer hurricanes toward the end of this century.
Fish are more efficient than pork and beef, because they require fewer inputs to yield the same amount of protein.
But, while it is true that fewer refugees were arriving on Europe’s shores, anyone who has been to Lesbos lately knows that the crisis is far from over.
When poor families have fewer children, they can afford to invest more per child in health, nutrition, and schooling.
A policy of expanding legitimate micro-lending schemes and prosecuting illegal loan sharks, not to mention the promotion of sustainable agricultural practices that require fewer expensive (and environmentally dangerous) inputs, would do far more to help India’s poorest farmers than this expensive and misguided measure.
Under this system, fewer students who intend to work permanently overseas will accept government subsidies, and more money will be available for students who wish to practice in their country of origin, or for investments in health-care infrastructure.
States with their own nuclear weapons hold fewer dollars than countries that depend on the US for their security needs.
First, the world needs stronger international governance of the movement of people and money, and fewer restrictions on speech, association, and dissent.
It follows from the second major tenet of Islamic finance that if people adhered strictly to its ethical requirements, there would be fewer moral-hazard problems in Islamic banking.
The 1986 law was the well-thought-out result of an extended, deliberate, and bipartisan process, designed to be revenue-neutral, with low marginal income tax rates balanced by fewer deductions, particularly on the corporate side.
If implementing a technology requires less knowhow and fewer other technologies, it is likely to diffuse even faster than the technologies it replaces.
The sharp drop in retail sales in the United States and Europe means fewer orders for the goods produced in Chinese factories.
Trump was elected with over 60 million votes – some three million fewer than his opponent, Hillary Clinton.
(In America, fewer than 1% of the disabled return to work.)
With fewer than 13,000 prescriptions annually for pyrimethamine, drug manufacturers did not have the financial incentive to navigate the US Food and Drug Administration’s application process for regulatory approval.
Most people saw the consolidation of smaller firms into fewer, large firms as a stabilizing development that rewarded success and allowed for further productive investment.
Some analysts have estimated that, with many fewer employees needed to produce the current volume of goods and services, a large share of current employment could be made redundant.
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