Sentence examples for better than completely from inspiring English sources

It's a sad irony that for all the supposed emphasis on respecting elders in Confucian societies, so many of them across Asia live in a state barely better than completely neglected.

It may seem difficult to potentially hurt your partner's feelings by telling them something they may not want to hear, but it's a lot better than completely ruining the life you've built, or are beginning to build, and breaking their heart in the process.

An age threshold with the possibility of personalisation of assent is more likely to serve the interest of children better than completely flexible criteria of personalisation.

For the symmetric case, the achievable rate region of our proposed scheme is completely better than all other protocols and it fully contains the rate region of them.

Republicans have been handed a share of power and need things to get better rather than completely fall apart now that they are partly in control.

Because semi-supervised learning algorithms use both labeled and unlabeled instances in the training process, they can produce classifiers that achieve better performance than completely supervised learning algorithms that have only a small amount of labeled data available for training [ 1- 3].

While knowing the mistakes others have made in the past does not guarantee that you will avoid mistakes of your own in the future, it's better than flying completely blind.

In the end, Google may have decided that providing a restricted version of Google Search and a slow but usable Gmail to Chinese users is much better than being completely cut off.

There is extensive evidence that active learning works better than a completely passive lecture.

Both the 'hippocampal' and 'sham' models had good fit, and when the two groups were stacked on the same model in which all path coefficients were free to vary, the fit was not significantly better than the completely constrained model (, P = 0.06), and nor was the model improved by allowing the path from the LEC to area 35 to vary between groups (, P = 0.15).

The correct balance is much better than something completely out of proportion.