It's like Preston Tucker launching in the heyday of the land yacht – sure the product his car was superior but why buy it when there were so many only slightly-inferior competitors out there?
Many are only slightly altered versions of existing phones, suggesting how easily we get bored — how we'll crave something that slides, say, instead of flips open.
The departure of such key members of the New Zealand team to the Swiss was seen by many as only slightly below treason.
If that goal is, by many assessments, only slightly less distant than it was two years ago by, his pursuit of it wins wide praise.
I have also had the opportunity to see just as many and only slightly less varied interpretations of the British prime minister, Tony Blair, and of members of Mr. Bush's cabinet and advisory team.
It could take many forms, like pleasure at being able to bypass the record labels, which many see as only slightly worse than the military-industrial complex.
The UK is already the most centralised country in the rich world and for many, SW1 feels only slightly less remote than Brussels".
Just as David N. Dinkins realized in his first bid for mayor, Mr. Green knows he needs to register those who have not registered to vote, and to press people to go to the polls for the primary -- no small task in a race that many view as only slightly more inviting than a remedial art history summer school class.
Predicting soil property distribution from a catena in the digital environment has been explored by many researchers with only slightly better than modest results.
But my mother and I were the kind of people the authors of an early 20th-century treatise warned against when they wrote, "Let it be said, that the Karlsbad Cures must be taken seriously, although many come who are only slightly ill, and many who seek Karlsbad come only for the sake of its pleasures".
As a consequence SAM reported many genes that were only slightly up- or down-regulated.
