When birds can't fly, they become vulnerable.

You become more honest you become less compromising.

This makes economies significantly less vulnerable to external shocks.

His letters become less significant.

And then the other areas become less and less positive.

They become a touch less infernal

Without adequate safety nets, poorer population segments would become increasingly vulnerable.

The fortress of Sveaborg also made the place less vulnerable from overseas.

When you begin to believe your own lies, you become extremely vulnerable.

When food is abundant, bears become less aggressive.

Traditional business leadership styles have become less effective.

Historically lax policies have become far less accommodative.

The Initiative seeks to use education as a means of empowering rural people to become full actors, making them less vulnerable to conflict and more resilient to recover from conflict.

People with fixed rate mortgages are also vulnerable to rate increases, though less directly.

In reality, the crisis has merely become less visible.

The gods become less important than the rituals themselves.

Every six years I become less convinced of that.

As statist models of economic development become more appealing, democratic governance will become less so.

They will be less vulnerable to political pressure from local governments to finance development projects.

And as violence grows in the Middle East, the more vulnerable Europe's cities become.

As the ambient temperature gets cooler, these collectors become less effective.

Such information may become less important as experience with auctions increases.

The other combinations of challenge and skill become progressively less optimal.

In the criminal justice system, discrimination and its disproportionate impact on vulnerable groups have become institutionalized.

As countries become less reliant on traditional sources of financing, they are less likely to follow foreign diktats blindly.

When agents are bored with their work, they become less engaged and less motivated to do their jobs well.

Rainfall patterns will vary, and the Asian monsoon will become less reliable.

But governing the enlarged union has become more difficult and less efficient.

Moreover, with less government support, rural credit has often become prohibitively expensive.

Russia has stabilized under Putin, but its has become markedly less democratic.

Although the economic storm has become less intense, it hasn t calmed yet.

Second, and related, the typical armed conflict has become significantly less formalized.

The Commission apos s work should become more focused and less theoretical.

At the same time, though Africa s frontier economies are less vulnerable than other emerging markets to global financial turbulence, they are highly vulnerable to political turmoil closer to home.

Complicating matters even more, these inflows have become less and less connected to the recipient countries economic and financial fundamentals.

Of course, we want to continue to find ways to make ourselves less vulnerable and terrorists more so.

Replacing biomass sources by less destructive energy supplies has thus become increasingly urgent.

As economies develop and become richer, manufacturing making things inevitably becomes less important.

In a similar way, transportation can become less energy intensive without restricting mobility.

Control over song generation has become less constrained, more distributed, and more flexible.

Over this period, the rebel movements have become less cooperative in the talks.

The political, economic, racial, religious or other differences dividing mankind become less significant.

Clearly, the Security Council has become less representative and needs to be enlarged.

With less time, the principle of constructive dialogue threatens to become dangerously superficial.

Dynamically, it has changed over time to become less authoritarian and more democratic.