For Ferrari, though, the signing may have less to do with emotion than cold-hearted practicality.
The biggest costs in fact have less to do with managing money than with getting it.
But he also insists that China's real problems have less to do with standards than with bigger issues of law and regulation.
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His moody themes have less to do with blues and swing than with mesmerising soundscapes that paint the northern lights and rock-bound coasts.
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"Many of the serious problems associated with adoption have less to do with adoption, per se, than with what happens before adoption, " says Brodzinsky.
We are, but for reasons that have less to do with the design of your fridge than with the average age of your family.
Income gaps at this level have less to do with the skills-bias of the modern economy and more to do with its global reach.
Competitors and environmentalists, however, say Apple's green efforts have less to do with cleaning up its products and manufacturing and more to do with marketing.
The explanation for that record may have less to do with Assad's intentions than the fact that Israel has been on the Heights in force.
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These, though, have less to do with aesthetics than with metereology.
But, as Mrs Pusic put it in a recent interview, that does not mean that Croatia will have less to do with its former Yugoslav neighbours.
In truth, many of the impediments to entering the citadel have less to do with its symbolic role than with a certain frayed mustiness and anarchic disorder.
The genetic domino effect that his team uncovered may have less to do with extending life, he says, then with making it possible to survive caloric restriction at all.
Likewise, Germany's dearer borrowing costs may have less to do with optimism about its economy than with concerns about the costs to its exchequer of keeping the euro zone together.
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But they have done so in part for reasons that have less to do with the shape of political institutions and the merits (or otherwise) of politicians, than with lifestyles, technology and globalisation.
For Romney, a lot of that may have less to do with his wealth than the perception of his stiff demeanor, said Jennifer Duffy, a senior editor with The Cook Political Report.
At the end of the day, Delphi's move into Chapter 11 seems to have less to do with its imminent demise otherwise than it does with forcing the hand of the United Auto Workers and GM.
We start with an unflinching look at these realities before turning to solutions, and some potentially encouraging developments, which have less to do with how electricity is generated, and more to do with how it might be stored.
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These special medals are really a bad idea, and the reasons for that have less to do with the pecking order among medals and more to do with the detached way that drone operators carry out their remote-control missions.
Chris Williams, the boss of Williams Capital, a boutique investment bank, thinks that minority-run financial firms can still struggle to get into the game, but that this may have less to do with racism than with another Wall Street vice, cronyism.
In fact, much of the fury of the Tea Partiers against government stimulus and bailouts might have less to do with any principled belief in the limits of government and more to do with fear of what this will do to their own entitlements.
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The success of The Heretic in Spain may have less to do with Salcedo's character than it does with its recreation of the vanished Protestant milieu of the period, which was quickly suppressed and is harder to find than Spain's Moorish and Jewish past.
The problems with elections in Indonesia have less to do with the tactical ability to monitor such a large electoral process than with the absence of the political will among that nation's leaders to allow genuine competition and an uninhibited, independent observation of the electoral process.
Dagestan has its fair share of problems, but the answers to why the Tsarnaevs may have turned to terrorism will likely have much less to do with the republic than the changes they, especially Tamerlan, underwent in America.
Effective local policies may have had less to do with the quantity of growth than the quality.
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These parties, all with their own special characteristics, are distinct from older far-right groups such as France's National Front and Italy's Northern League, and have still less to do with thuggish movements in eastern Europe.
Most of the coalition's problems have had less to do with its complexion than its occasional bouts of incompetence: Mr Cameron's self-confidence has sometimes tipped into insouciance and neglect of detail, as in a botched proposal to privatise forests and, more importantly, the well-intentioned but chaotic bid to make the National Health Service more efficient.
"Gov. Cuomo goes around saying schools have to do more with less, do more with less, " Mr. Rebell said.
But as Google moves into traditional, offline forms of advertising, customers will have to make do with less precision and "targetability" than they've grown accustomed to with the company.
But Brad Hintz, of Alliance Bernstein, thinks the bank may have to make do with eight to nine percentage points less as bets with borrowed money become less acceptable.
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