Many newcomers, far less threatening than Apple, have had better luck luring the studios online.
That said, some other possible sources of trouble may be less threatening than they now seem.
That one seems much less threatening to iPad and to the just announced Microsoft Surface.
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With Boulding taken off injured and replaced by Peter Ndlovu, the Blades looked a lot less threatening.
Such ideas are less threatening to economists: Milton Friedman evoked the notion of market selection over 50 years ago.
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Take into account the weakened dollar as well as economic growth, and in many countries the arms spending looks less threatening.
These broadsides are less threatening to the Fed's independence than they appear.
As Noah Poponak of Goldman Sachs points out, most have strong balance-sheets and cashflow, and the geopolitical landscape is no less threatening.
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"The paradox is that the latter produces thousands of times more cases than the former but seems to be less threatening, " Wood says.
These are all conditions that make Afghanistan far less threatening to its neighbors and the United States than it had been a decade earlier.
Seen through French eyes, Allianz's bid looks less threatening than Generali's.
Positioning it as a less threatening, more evolutionary, progression is a winning strategy for brands truly looking to connect with IT audiences and drive increased adoption.
The news that Nokia and Intel are teaming up against Novatel and companies like Sierra Wireless is less threatening, since most companies have already locked in their orders for 2007.
Every day, I have to introduce myself to new clients, judges and other attorneys and actually think of how I can say my own name so that it might sound less foreign, less threatening.
So, even though an employer would correctly estimate that his business would suffer if he alone were forced to pay for benefits, the fact that his labor market competitors are being put under the same obligation means that the labor market overall will readjust in a way that is much less threatening.
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Those who have life-threatening injuries are attended to first, followed by those with serious but less life-threatening injuries.
Lifton, meanwhile, has moved on to less privacy-threatening applications of his X-Reality expertise.
Yet exports account for only 14% of its economy, which should leave it less affected by threatening economic slowdowns in Asia and Europe.
Certain kinds of music or ways of talking become steadily less familiar - they become alien, even threatening.
Before this week's meeting with the government, Allianz, less tied to physical capital, had been threatening to reduce its tax base in Germany by moving some international business divisions abroad, again draining jobs from Germany.
But the commission is now threatening to disqualify the PPP over the less serious matter of a video clip in which Mr Thaksin breaches his ban on politicking and urges support for his party.
Jackson also recognized the real limitations on threatening the use of nuclear weapons to deter less than wholesale conventional or nuclear aggression.
Had she been less over-the-top evil and more quietly threatening, this film could have had hit the perfect balance of humor and horror.
The average response figure across England for August was 77.4% (life-threatening calls) and 97.1% (less urgent calls).
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