Sentence examples for but rather vigorous from inspiring English sources

The interviews were not sedate conversations but rather vigorous discussions with frequent debates.

But the government is actually a rather vigorous defender of deregulation and labour market flexibility in Brussels.

In all these cases it seems clear that debates about reductionism in biology have not reached a denouement but rather portend vigorous philosophical discussion as the heterogeneity of issues related to its ontological, epistemological, and methodological types are brought to bear on perennial biological topics.

Competing capital improvements aside, health club owners engage in some rather vigorous backbiting.

Another person familiar with the deal said talks between the parties were rather vigorous until Saturday afternoon, when it became evident that WABC would stop transmitting to Cablevision.

Andrew Johnson In 2007 a painting by US artist Cy Twombly was smeared with lipstick after a woman, claiming to be "so overcome with passion", gave it a rather vigorous snog.

We want the end of corruption," she tells me during a break between her rather vigorous vocal exercises.

But rather than counteract that impression through vigorous diplomacy, the prime minister has reinforced it.

He is not acting out some transference of hatred, argues one C.I.A. veteran of the war in Afghanistan, but rather a grand strategy for Islamic rebirth that is "vigorous" and "combative" and aims to gain control of the entire Middle East.

But rather quite the opposite.

Nice but rather unlikely.