Translation of "Weniger gravierend" in English

More or less as bad is the state of venture capital.

This error would be less serious in less imaginary examples.

Fortunately, their injuries were less serious.

The resulting initial signal distortions are less serious than the much longer lasting feedback whistling which would otherwise occur.

The first problem is less serious, and can be circumvented by appropriately adapted color schemes.

Except for Mexico, which manages to show remarkable growth rates, production is still down during the course of 1999, especially so in Argentina, but the contraction is much less severe in Brazil.

Less importantly, Sweden does not measure own production.

Some of them are less serious and go undetected until adulthood or remain unnoticed at all.

Overall, then, the problems posed by the continuity of contracts seem less complex than had initially been thought.

I agree that Bay of Biscay sole could be moved to a management plan in accordance with its less serious biological state, but Western Channel sole should remain the subject of a recovery plan.

Their humanitarian consequences are altogether less significant, and they are an indispensable military weapon as long as there are tanks on the battle field.

By illegally reducing the number of sessions for 2004 from 12 to 10, a coalition of honourable Members, whose antipathy to the notion of Strasbourg as seat of the European Parliament has long been known, has seriously undermined the treaties. These honourable Members have also, and no less importantly, undermined this town's status as a symbol of Franco-German reconciliation.

In other Member States, these difficulties have been less severe but mean that they will be unable to spend their entire allocation by 30 June, but should be able to do so by 15 October.

Because the supply shortage is less severe than in the 2010/2011 marketing year and the measure is taken at an earlier stage compared to the 2010/2011 marketing year with still some uncertainties regarding exact quantities available on the EU market, the setting of a reduced levy is appropriate, in order to avoid any risk of accumulation of quantities.

These weaknesses are much less pronounced, however, if the whole of the EU banking system is considered, including third-country banks operating from London.

Although all will be affected by more restrictive access to international capital markets and trade effects of the Russian downturn, the severity of the impact will be less marked in those that have decisively implemented structural reforms, prudent macro-economic policy and refrained from excessive government interference in the functioning of markets.

The problem will be less severe, provided the candidate states adopt comprehensive and effective policies to support the emergence and sustainability of SMEs.

In relation to oilseeds, he understood the concerns expressed by some of the members, but had no new proposals as he felt that the problem was somewhat less critical.

Although, by definition, the problems of economic and social cohesion outside regions lagging behind are of a lesser scale, there are several important challenges facing the Union as a whole.

There can be no doubt that the problem of acid rain destroying our woodland would not be so serious if the Council had matched its political decisions with action.

One method is based on back calculation ­ as used in AIDS projections ­ using a separate estimate for the time between first opiate use and first treatment (the 'latency period'). Another method directly corrects for the year of first use, resulting in more biased but still useful incidence.

In contrast, Eurostat's assessment of efforts to lighten the burden for enter­prises is more positive although the manifold and sometimes vehement reaction of enterprises or federations express a different view and clearly demonstrate that Eurostat must make further advances in this field and put forward other simplification proposals.

So the real income per person in employment rose in Germany, Italy and Belgium 3.1 %, 3.8% and 6.8% more steeply than the nominal income in the agricultural branch.