Sentences with phrase «were less able»

In CHEZ Razpredelenie Bulgaria AD v Komisia za ot Diskriminatsia (to save my sanity — CHEZ) the AG decided that the practice of installing electricity meters at too high a level in predominantly Roma areas and where the Roma population were less able to read them, being of diminutive stature, was indirect discrimination — so far, so well established.

Mice exposed to fracking chemicals during pregnancy were less able to fend off diseases; scientists say this could have major implications for people near oil and gas sites

By attaching flipper bands and monitoring how many banded birds returned to DuDu researchers argued the penguins were less able to survive due to climate change.

Note: in experiments with caracals, the ear tufts also help pick up sound vibrations, caracals whose ear tufts were trimmed off were less able to hunt small prey in long grass.

It appeared that these cats were less able to adapt in ways that other healthy, outdoor cats could.

An experiment involving middle and high school students found that the students who checked Facebook or texted while they were trying to study had lower GPAs and were less able to focus on their work.

The results showed that drivers were less able to:

VOLKSWAGEN GROUP -13 % Once again, the Volkswagen brand dragged down the results for the Volkswagen Group, but this time Audi and Porsche were less able to stem the loss.

But relative to public four - year institutions, the for - profits were less able to get equivalent students through BA programs, and they left students in far greater debt.

A 2011 study found that subjects who had Botox injections were less able to read the emotions of others compared to those who had non-paralyzing fillers used to smooth their wrinkles instead.

In an operant test R6 / 2 transgenic mice (240 - CAG repeats, B6 congenic background) were less able to acquire lever pressing than control animals at an age where motor function is only mildly affected (from 9 weeks), with this deficit being both more pronounced and detected earlier (from 5 weeks) where reinforcement was not solely contingent on responding.

In the study, the researchers found that GMSCs in mice with diabetes were less able to secrete extracellular vesicles compared to GMSCs in healthy mice, and their GMSCs also had less IL - 1RA secretion.

«Although the orphaned chimps were motivated to play,» Van Leeuwen says, «it seems that they were less able to coordinate their play bouts and prevent them from resulting in aggression.»

After disruption of this brain region, people tended to make choices that were both more impulsive (i.e. choosing the immediate payoff) and more selfish (i.e. choosing the payoff for themselves only), and were less able to take the perspective of other persons.

Compared with lung tissue of disease - free individuals, lung tissue from patients with pulmonary fibrosis had far fewer AEC2 cells, and those that remained were less able to renew themselves.

Once the salmon reached the age when they would typically begin their seaward migration, researchers found they were less able to use oxygen to exercise, which is likely to hurt their ability to find food, evade predators, and migrate.

But there was no evidence that the children of these women were less able to balance than those whose mums who did not have this genetic profile.

Because European - borne epidemics altered the disease landscape, survivors were less likely to carry variants like HLA - DQA1, which were less able to cope with the new diseases (precisely how is still a mystery).

The hippocampus neurons therefore were less sensitive to stress hormones and were less able to tamp down the animal's stress response.

With the left or right parietal cortex numbed, the test subjects were less able to detect objects placed in the visual field controlled by the numb side of their brain and did even worse still if there was also an object in the functioning half of the field.

Consequently, the older participants were less able than the younger ones to solidify their memories of the word pairs.

Without gp96, pAPCs were less able to travel to lymph nodes, for which they need integrins, and less able to respond to bacterial antigens, for which they need functioning toll - like receptors.

More importantly, they were less able to distinguish between actual guilty suspects and innocent suspects (i.e., those who shared the culprit's distinctive feature) when they viewed lineups that had not been altered compared with altered lineups.

According to Graf's model, Toba's massive sulphur emissions created large sulphate particles that were less able to reflect light, reducing the cooling effect (Geophysical Research Letters, doi.org/cpk3fm).

When asked about how financial pressures affect pupils, 72 % said they were more likely to be absent from school, 65 % said they were less able to concentrate in lessons, 60 % said they caused behaviour problems and 40 % said they felt alienated and disaffected.

When Romo was qb teams were less able to key on plays which makes Dak look that less impressive.

Life experiences bring depth that the most educated young adult, by his or her nature, is less able to foresee.

Less wealth means being less able to help the next generation get started with educations and down payments.

Even if that didn't happen, these competitors of DirectTV would be less able to compete with the merged company because their costs would be higher than DirectTV's.

«People who are sleep deprived are less able to detect the correct nonverbal expression on another's face,» says Buxton.

So dealers are less able to provide immediacy than they used to be, and immediacy in corporate bonds is more expensive.

Such a Chairman therefore will be less able to lead the board in performing its advisory and networking roles.

Life insurance companies will be less able to wriggle out of claims based on out - of - date medical definitions under the industry's first code of conduct.

Considering all these measures, it can be argued that today's student bodies, with a majority of older students, are less able than they would be if the total group were to include more younger students.

It is only that little children could easier believe because they are less able to scrutinize like adults.

If you do not receive an income from your art work, you will be less able to create more art (less time and energy to put toward it).

The poor tend to live more in the present and the past, are less able to tolerate delay, and are less inclined to plan for the future.

At the same time, a more equal distribution of functions creates a liability: the person is less able to hone in on a few details which are relevant to a pattern.

Each generation is less able to maintain families than the one before.

It will be less able to win over the unconverted or to resist its adversaries.

If the real wage continues its decade long downward trend, the majority of consumers will be less able to buy.

They are packed with oligofructoses and even if some of us are less able to digest them than others, they always have a tendency to ferment in the gut and they are hard work to for the system to assimilate and digest, not a very cleansing food I'd say...

Mindfulness and meditation can be really useful tools when physically you are less able to do things.

Plus if you play Rosicky over let's say Wilshere, then Wilshere is less able to develop and progress as a player due to a lack of game time.

Failure to stay in the Champions League means we're less able to attract top players, have less money coming in and could even lose some of our best players.

It's hurt our brand, so we get less money and are less able to compete.

It would maroon Dybala on the wing where he's less able to influence play — not to mention it would necessitate him learning another new position.

I think that another factor that we have to consider is that low - income women in the US probably also have less access to quality maternity leave, and are less able to afford to take unpaid time have.

For example, it is possible that babies are less able to regulate crying once started.

As the prolactin levels remain high, lactational amenorrhea will be induced and the mother should be less able to conceive.