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.

Such mistakes are all the more likely in times of stress.

First, they should push for new rules that make financial crises less likely and their consequences less severe. Left to their own devices, global financial markets provide too much credit at too cheap a price in good times, and too little credit in bad times.

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.

According to UNICEF, children who suffer from severe under nutrition are 9.5 times more likely to die from diarrhea and 6.4 times more likely to die from pneumonia.

Indeed, protests about globalization seem likely to return with more normal times.

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.

Yet, when measured by the light they generate, candles are almost 100 times less efficient than incandescent light bulbs, and more than 300 times less efficient than fluorescent lights.

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.

But the Belgians and Dutch have also been less than cooperative at times.

Its closed loop irrigation systems consume 10 times less water than conventional systems.

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.

Noticeably behind him are other deceased celebrities who last year earned several times less.

But the people who fail are 37 times more likely to succeed the second time.

And if politicians choose less efficient, less coordinated cap and trade policies, the costs could escalate a further 10 to 100 times.

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.

Unlicensed drivers, he found, are nearly five times more likely to be in a fatal crash.

The total cost would be 50 times that of the avoided climate damage. And if politicians choose less efficient, less coordinated cap and trade policies, the costs could escalate a further 10 to 100 times.

Yet, the total also would be seven times cheaper than the Kyoto Protocol, and many times cheaper than the Copenhagen Protocol is likely to be.

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.

Younger leaders are more likely to be able to cope with the chop and change of difficult times.

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.