In fact, they have spent rather less than he first asked them to.
British bosses are paid rather less than American ones and less too than the bosses of top European companies.
But the June summit also delivered rather less than the market rally suggested.
And the answer to that question, what should we be doing, is rather less than many people are urging us to do.
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The number of wet days is rather less than in western Europe and the number of hours of sunshine rather more.
However, since any member country can ask for part of its subscription back on demand, the actual free resources are rather less than this.
But the problem for the new Archbishop is that on this sort of non-spiritual, fiduciary issue, his authority is rather less than that of the officers of the state.
But here's the thing: the risk premium for lending to the slightly shambolic household of Peston, as opposed to the sovereign nation of Italy, is rather less than I expected.
For America will come up with the money only if its fellow-members agree to a new scale of assessment under which the Americans will regularly contribute rather less than they did and a handful of other countries rather more.
An ASCL survey suggested that more than 80% of heads of further education colleges, sixth form colleges and schools with sixth forms believed they would have to reduce the choice of courses they offered while 83% said they believed this age group should attract more rather than less funding than younger pupils.
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Audit partners would rather retrain than serve less prestigious clients but would rather retrain or serve less prestigious clients than relocate.
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If approached in the right context, advertisers could start seeing favorable responses from 50% of the people they ping, rather than the less than one percent most ads convert into sales.
On the face of it, this vignette was rather less momentous than Mr Darling's statement.
But, after a lacklustre showing by the centre-left, that plan looks rather less clever than it did.
The fiscal packages have proved rather less popular than monetary easing.
In general their lordships are rather less eurosceptic than MPs, but this will be the first parliamentary opportunity for Ukip to weigh in - and watch out for their new star turn, Lord Stevens of Ludgate.
So the British decided to give their most dangerous prisoners more control, rather than less.
But almost two years into the battle, most Mexicans feel less rather than more secure.
As a result, the second resolution must be to spend less rather than collect more.
Asset classes that promise safety (e.g. gold) may actually prove to be more volatile rather than less.
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The tax rate increases will cause renewed recession, and result in less rather than more federal revenues.
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Whatever our debt level is, it is far easier to pay when spread among more taxpayers rather than less.
Two powerful, related technological and economic trends are making manufacturing and services jobs more closely related, rather than less.
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Mr Davies, who has always wanted more rather than less devolution, may find these requests easy to agree to.
Implemented properly, this requirement ought to lead to more privatisation rather than less.
If Britain is to retain its edge in business services, its companies will need to do more rather than less offshoring.
That emphasis is no doubt partly because the cheapest way of meeting climate change obligations is to use less rather than different energy.
First, there was no precedent of success for such investments, no template to follow, which should have led to more rather than less caution.
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Experience suggests that export revivals are led by highly productive industries that already export a lot, rather than less productive industries regaining old markets.
How can this possibly make sense when the very purpose of the healthcare reform law is to get more Americans insured rather than less?
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