Sentence examples for be guided less by from inspiring English sources

In sharp contrast, he argued that monetary policy should be guided less by discretion and more by a fixed target for inflation.

But other times, well, it's not so clear our choices might be guided less by necessity than by a lack of discipline or perhaps, yes, misplaced priorities.

And that determination should be guided less by what candidates eat or drive than by what they've done with the reins of power, whether holding them with chapped or manicured fingers.

— Michael Rubin "It's a thunderbolt of historical revelation to muse that, no less now than in the time of Greek tragedies, the fate of the most ancient turbulent region might be guided less by rational interests or Realpolitik than by father-son psychodramas, first the Bushes, now the Netanyahus".

Some linguists have proposed that the use of classifier phrases may be guided less by grammar and more by stylistic or pragmatic concerns on the part of a speaker who may be trying to foreground new or important information.

More emancipated women with greater autonomy tend to be guided less by tradition and less subjected to social control, and to also have better knowledge of the benefits and costs of FGM.

Kenan Malik is right to note that some aid is guided less by poverty than by geopolitical and strategic interests ("As a system, foreign aid is a fraud and does nothing for inequality", Comment).

More plausibly, exactly 40 years since he was first elected to public office, he is guided less by conviction than by a desire to keep the social peace and avoid confrontation.

One of the dissenters, Kathleen Casey, complained that the move was guided "less by empirical analysis and more by public relations" and that "we should resist the urge to act merely to say we have acted".

Behavioral decision making literature suggests that decision makers are guided less by final outcome than by immediate gain-loss.

According to this caveat, congruence effects are guided less by overlapping perceptual coding of the competing stimuli, and more by competing response codes.