Qatar is smaller than the Bahamas in land area, has less than 300, 000 citizens, but boasts the highest per capita GDP in the world.
The pressure on Mr Noda to embrace the TPP has largely come from the big-business lobby, Keidanren, whose members have less to lose than their smaller, less globally competitive counterparts.
Last year Monterrey, the country's industrial capital, clocked a higher reading than Mexico City on its index of particles smaller than 10 microns, a form of pollution that is no less dangerous than ozone.
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That's a slightly smaller overshoot than in the US and much less than in the Republic of Ireland.
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The product, Switch 8 Solar Recharging Kit, from Goal Zero, is ultra-lightweight aluminum package smaller than a roll of quarters and less tangled than all those power cables in your briefcase.
Similarly, the Canadian population is much smaller and less heterogeneous than ours, both culturally and politically.
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As and when the market for structured finance revives, it will be smaller and less rewarding than before.
Admittedly, the kids have found the smaller size less troubling than I did.
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Much bigger panels would include banks that are smaller and less creditworthy than those currently submitting, leading to higher LIBOR rates.
Nepal's literary scene is smaller and less heralded than India's and Pakistan's.
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Already the army is smaller and less intransigent than of old.
Smaller and less powerful than Detroit-built pickups, its V-8 engine produces 240 horsepower (the same as a V-6 Honda Accord sedan), while Chevy Silverado owners can get up to 325hp.
Visions of the devastating quake and tsunami that killed thousands in Japan in March 2011 fueled the fright, but the waves proved to be smaller and less powerful than feared.
His most recent book, "The Quality of Mercy, " is a sequel to "Sacred Hunger, " and while it is smaller and less ambitious than its predecessor, it is a marvelous story told in Mr. Unsworth's typically polished prose.
If, instead, the Greek economy were to continue to contract at a 4.8% rate, in 2012 real GDP would be 7.6% smaller than the EU is expecting, and 11.5% less than it was in 2009.
"They're smaller than the diameter of a human hair, less than 100 microns in size, " explains Dr Lane.
In 2010 most HENRYs have smaller portfolios and less income than they did in 2008.
The new microchip is smaller and uses less power than other models in its Atom range.
LG's device will come in a smaller form, weighing less than 6 ounces, and be housed inside a metallic exterior.
But smaller screen sizes than PCs, less sophisticated ad targeting and wariness by advertisers is holding down ad rates or spending on mobile devices.
The result will be slower growth, fewer job opportunities, less employment, a smaller tax base and far less tax revenue than expected.
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At only 170 grams, the new Kindle is 30 percent lighter than the previous generation Kindle, weighing less than a typical paperback, and 18 percent smaller while still keeping the same 6-inch e-ink display.
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For smaller private firms, with less than 100 workers, only 52% of employees are covered.
This species of bagel is smaller, sweeter and less salty than New York bagels are.
It now sells for less than the smaller Fiesta subcompact, which went on sale earlier this year.
Although smaller deals involve much less debt than the bigger ones, the amount of leverage is creeping up.
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Phi Phi, smaller and less-well known than Phuket, suffered a "clean sweep" of its hotels, officials said, which will have to be rebuilt.
The split initially alarmed critics of the deal, who said that it gave too much to Archipelago, a far-smaller electronic trading firm founded less than a decade ago.
It sounds simple, and it might be in a smaller, less risk-averse organization than Time Warner-owned CNN.
It was one of the few times an oil sands project received such a designation, which also allows the company to reach a collective agreement with one union--in this case, the Christian Labour Association of Canada, whose members earn less and pay smaller dues than others--and apply it to workers from other unions.
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