These children are more likely to start school later than the prescribed age, less likely to be developmentally ready or well prepared for school, and more prone to drop out or fail to achieve in school.

Or is it more likely that a reader of Skeptic did this with Photoshop?

So the next time you get dengue fever, if it's a different strain, you're more susceptible, you're likely to get worse symptoms, and you're more likely to get the more severe forms, hemorrhagic fever or shock syndrome.

Lawyers with expertise in maritime cases are more likely to practice in or near a port and judges with expertise in maritime issues are more likely to sit in courts with jurisdiction over ports.

Even if the cargo is not being handled, it is more likely to be stolen from a warehouse (which is more likely to be in a port area) than from a vessel on the high seas or a moving truck or train.

But more likely is this.

And you think, the more highways there are in a tissue, the more likely it is to get cancer or to get metastases.

The higher the casualties, or the more dramatic their attacks, the greater the media coverage is likely to be.

When you think of the future then, do you think it's more likely to be Big Brother exerting more control, more secrecy, or us watching Big Brother, or it's just all to be played for either way?

If the impact is likely to be more than minor or transitory, a comprehensive environmental evaluation must be carried out.

As these operations stabilize over the medium to long term, the volume of procurement is likely to remain more or less constant or to decline.

According to Fan Yanhui, in the medium and short term, the Renminbi is not likely to rise or fall too much, and is more likely to remain stable at the current level.

I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility which I do.

While women are under represented in the workforce, they are more likely to be working part time or very long hours.

It's more likely too much glucose blood sugar.

We want to know how likely, or relatively how likely, two different explanations are.

So again, we can ask this what's more likely?

She is more likely to be helping her husband.

So you're more likely to feel in a euphoric state, creativity, find more patterns.

And the more unequal societies are more likely also to retain the death penalty.

Conflicts are much more likely to arise or persist when those with the means to prevent or end them cannot or will not do so. Unfortunately, this will be borne out in 2013.

Single adolescent women who become pregnant are more likely to drop out of school, thus compromising their future earning capacity and becoming more likely to end in poverty.

The more choices you have, the more likely you are to make the best choice.

The more educated a woman is, the more she is likely to seek health services.

The parents are more likely to respect what he'd done.

Where the former do not exist, crisis is more likely.

Furthermore, more men than women were likely to make a

They were more likely to become infected with HIV AIDS.

Refugee children exposed to HIV through rape or orphaned by AIDS are also more likely to suffer hardship, withdraw from school, become vulnerable to abuse or contract the virus themselves.

They are also more likely to work without the protection of local labour standards or the rights to health care and treatment accorded to citizens.

Formulating monetary policy has become a more complex process, but also a more politicized process, which is why it is likely to become more chaotic, with sharp differences between national approaches. The Fed and the Bank of England remain less likely to be concerned about the emergence of new kinds of asset bubbles in stock markets or commodities.

The World Bank adds that women aged 15 44 are more likely to experience rape or domestic violence than cancer, car accidents, war, or malaria. Such indicators are even more alarming in emerging markets, where discrimination and gender inequality are particularly prevalent.

Young women with HIV were 10 times more likely to do so.

Looking ahead, which would you say is more likely that in the country as a whole we ll have continuous good times during the next five years or so, or that we will have periods of widespread unemployment or depression, or what?

Looking ahead, which would you say is more likely that in the country as a whole we ll have continuous good times during the next five years or so, or that we will have periods of widespread unemployment or depression, or what?

The more vegetation we lose, the more that's likely to exacerbate climate change and lead to further desertification.

Criminal groups are also more likely to outsource some components of their activities to other criminal groups or to form strategic alliances with both competitors and collaborators.

To the extent that alternative care is required, early placement in family based or family like care is more likely to produce positive outcomes for young children.

All else being equal, a given level of physical abuse is more likely to constitute degrading or inhuman treatment or punishment when motivated by racial animus and or coupled with racial epithets than when racial considerations are absent.

People from ethnic minorities are less likely to suffer from high cholesterol levels, but more likely to suffer from high blood pressure and obesity.

American parents were more likely to say things like, What if? What if?

So, natural selection will favor organisms that are more likely to cause damage.

And in all cases we have to ask what's the more likely explanation?

Smokers are far more likely to develop lung cancer than non smokers are.

Boys are 30 percent more likely than girls to drop out of school.