Second, and related, the typical armed conflict has become significantly less formalized.

Dynamically, it has changed over time to become less authoritarian and more democratic.

And then the other areas become less and less positive.

In a world where everything has become faster, reaction is less an option than ever before.

Dynamic models have become much more common, an economics of the second best has flourished, political economy has become mainstream, and behavioral economics has thrown the rational actor into doubt. As a result, Hirschman looks less and less the maverick that he fancied himself to be.

This is now, and the idea looks a lot less plausible. Why has the G 2 become so far fetched so fast?

As people get older, their brain cells become less efficient.

Also, the broad concept of social development affirmed by all world leaders in Copenhagen has gradually become less comprehensive and has even been severely weakened in global policymaking.

In Taiwan, the differences between the four seasons have become less and less obvious. A short spring and autumn have gradually become part of the features of the four seasons.

The other combinations of challenge and skill become progressively less optimal.

Such information may become less important as experience with auctions increases.

Over this period, the rebel movements have become less cooperative in the talks.

WARSAW What was the Prague Spring, or the events of 1968 more generally? Their meaning, it seems, has become more, not less, debatable with the passage of time.

WARSAW What was the Prague Spring, or the events of 1968 more generally? Their meaning, it seems, has become more, not less, debatable with the passage of time.

Eleven African governments have seen that they can become less dependent by using this technology.

Walls will become less important as library staff interact more closely with users in their daily work.

And my laptop runs slower, less reliably and less pleasantly than it ever has before.

I moved to mainland China in 1979, when the country's per capita income was less than one third of Sub Saharan Africa's. Today, China has become an upper middle income country, and it is on track to become a high income country by 2020.

It has become obvious in recent years that nothing less than universal access to HIV prevention and treatment will be sufficient if we are to keep the epidemic from engulfing future generations.

She has no less than ten children.

Banditry has increased and has become ferocious.

But the overall policy mix has been sub optimal, with too much front loaded fiscal consolidation and too much unconventional monetary policy (which has become less effective over time). A better approach in advanced economies would have comprised less fiscal consolidation in the short run and more investment in productive infrastructure, combined with a more credible commitment to medium and long term fiscal adjustment and less aggressive monetary easing.

Breathing has become difficult.

And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.

The subject has become more open to discussion, and it has become more acceptable to set limits.

This educational approach stems largely from the sensible idea that a framework for thinking about economic problems is more useful to students than a ragbag of models. But it has become burdened with another, more pernicious notion as departures from the Arrow Debreu model become more realistic, and thus more complex, they become less suitable for the classroom.

That these clogged arteries that you see on the upper left, after only a year become measurably less clogged.

Tom has less money than his brother does.

Tom has less money than his brother does.

That would stabilize the situation, diminish the urge to steal, loot and kill and make the rendering of relief assistance to people without weapons less dangerous than it has become during the past month.

So you ask yourself, if education has become so much more expensive, has it become so much better?

This program has become stereotyped.

She has become a postwoman.

Tom has recently become forgetful.

The situation has become hopeless.

So it turns out that being paid less and praised less has its upsides for society at least.

If it becomes clear to them that they cannot recover any money, they become less interested in pursuing the case.

And they agreed that the United Nations needed to become more, not less, actively engaged in shaping our common future.

The third model is less restrictive and allows all Parties to propose candidate institutions to become regional or subregional centres.

Mr. Bush's reply has become infamous.

She has literally become deputy mayor.

The volcano has become active again.

English has become my favorite subject.

English has become an international language.

And therefore democracy has become embedded.