They are posh, they're wealthy, they're less likely to have outdoor jobs, they're less likely to do manual labor, they have better social support, they're less likely to smoke so for a whole host of fascinating, interlocking social, political and cultural reasons, they are less likely to have skin wrinkles.

That is less likely to be the case in Scotland.

Unfortunately, the positive outcome appears to be the less likely one.

While people are talking, they are less likely to act precipitately.

The longer it s delayed, the less likely it is to succeed.

First, they should push for new rules that make financial crises less likely and their consequences less severe.

Prodi, a convinced European, is less likely to favor a weak euro.

So they're less likely to be randomly false positives, randomly false negatives.

As countries become less reliant on traditional sources of financing, they are less likely to follow foreign diktats blindly.

Bad perceptions only complicate future peace efforts, making a breakthrough even less likely.

On the Web, people are less likely to help animals than, say, children.

This article describes some dishes that non Russians will likely find less familiar.

Now, at last, those resources are likely to be redeployed, and the US will likely get more security by paying less.

In addition, women were less likely to use pain medications, were more likely to be satisfied, and had slightly shorter labours.

Such an approach won t prevent another crisis, but it would make one less likely and less costly if it did occur.

If African youth are given a better education and the means to influence their communities, then they will be less likely to be used as cannon fodder, less likely to pick up a gun, and more likely to read a book.

We chose those locations because they were less likely to be targeted by air strikes.

In some Muslim majority countries, girls are less likely than boys to get higher education.

If women have access to hospitals and clinics, they are less likely to die in childbirth.

Repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen.

And as it turns out, the older you get, the less likely you are to divorce.

The people who are more likely to be able to afford a small dent in their earnings are the ones less likely to use that service!

But with every passing year, balancing up rapid growth in the rest of the world boosting demand for US exports has become less and less likely.

Experience shows that international justice is less a threat to national justice than a backstop that it is less likely to replace national justice than bolster it.

Because the expected gridlock in parliament would make reforms less likely, companies might hold off on investment, while consumers would be more likely to keep their wallets closed, because official policy would be even less clear than it is now.

Poverty leads to lower comprehension of the disease, with individuals less likely to protect themselves by using condoms.

As things stand now, the right is likely to win the first round, but with less than 50 .

In other words, those too young to remember the Soviet period properly are less likely to idealize it.

Girls who live in rural areas tend to be less educated and more likely to suffer in silence.

Outside the South, female voters are less likely to be hawkish on foreign policy and more likely to support spending on health, education, and other social welfare programs.

Some types of bears, such as polar bears, are more likely to attack humans when searching for food, while American black bears are much less likely to attack.

Moreover, European labor productivity figures are inflated by the fact that potential workers who would be less productive are much less likely to hold any jobs at all.

As their operations are less visible, it is likely that their outward FDI, and therefore China s total, is understated.

Or, less likely, he could embrace some megalomaniacal and over reaching vision of government intervention, as others have tried.

It is even less likely that China or Russia would disarm for the sake of a nuclear free world.

And every month that a child is out of school makes it less likely that they will ever return.

And, until recently, donors who were willing to pay for relief were less likely to finance follow up evaluations.

In principle, one can also think of scenarios in which the dollar shoots up, but overall these seem less likely.

Even if America goes off to war waving the banner of democracy, the results are likely to be less glorious.

But federation has been made less, not more, likely by a crisis that tragically set one proud nation against another.

By making an example out them, Putin will make sure that a similar revolt will be less likely in Russia.

Annual output will most likely rise by less than 5 this year, down from 6.8 in 2011 and 10.1 in 2010.

Not likely.

Not likely.

Likely not.