Sentence examples for briefly than from inspiring English sources

The Greek point would have been better made had the world seen the marbles united, however briefly, than by this legal nicety.

Moreover, Fed officials have recently hinted that they would prefer to let inflation rise above 2% briefly than strangle the recovery with premature tightening.Before the meeting the IMF, in an unusually public and explicit fashion, urged the Fed to keep rates near zero for even longer than now planned and to let inflation exceed its target.

Shore's decisions about which stories to include seem determined less by what they tell us about the afterlife of totalitarianism in Eastern Europe (actually, countries other than Poland and the former Czechoslovakia are mentioned only briefly) than by their importance in her life.

No one burned more brightly, or more briefly, than James Dean.

Then she invites me to study myself in the mirror; and it seems that a woman is looking back at me—not a beautiful woman, perhaps; but still, here is someone who came into the world just now and will exist more briefly than I, a woman who has feelings (my feelings); she wants to look her best.

It should be noted, however, that the stimuli in our study were presented more briefly than in the average autobiographical memory investigation, and this provides a possible alternative explanation for the failure to observe classic markers of recollection in the neural response to flashbacks.

Place fish on grill, sear briefly, less than a minute.

What if the congas are, briefly, louder than everything else?

Its share was briefly lower than its current level of 56.1percentt in the mid-1990's and otherwise has not been so low since 1966.

Little by little, the person in that hotel room comes to seem almost like an actress: real, but performative; herself, but only in one way that is concentrated and intense, briefly truer than all the other ways and yet partial.

The other claimants to the money were the state, McLennan County, and the I.R.S. Dean's father made no claim, and went to jail briefly rather than answer a grand jury's questions.