As I get older I'm driven less by a desire to be famous or make money.
Bacterial communities, on the other hand, were shaped less by a home's location than by its occupants.
Bans still remain on imports of Japanese animation and certain television programs, but they appear driven less by a need to protect culture than markets.
Xi surrounded himself with a shadow cabinet that was defined less by a single ideology than by school ties and political reliability.
He sees a global "insurrectionary wave," united less by a shared ideology than by a shared opposition to an increasingly global social arrangement.
A typical Burney principle: Better public housing is achieved less by "a series of bright ideas than a conspiracy of small things".
All of this was explained the other night, more or less, by a waiter whose T-shirt depicthe the California state flag.
It will be a history of the entire state of New Mexico, narrated, more or less, by a talking hot-mineral-water spring.
Even the drink's name, the Couture Cooler, suggests imported excess — with a carbon effect symbolized less by a footprint than a stiletto heel mark.
The tone of the film is set less by a visual scheme than by the rock hits used and abused on the soundtrack.
