Sentence examples for minor rather than from inspiring English sources

Mahajan has a cinematic attunement to the spectacle of disaster, and he often focusses on the minor rather than the grandiose, to eerie effect.

That means no flowers at the altar, vestments of linen rather than brocade and music played in minor rather than major keys.

According to Barber, "Monty's turntable was going a little fast so he learnt it in A flat minor rather than G minor".

In fact, it's not until the four-note rhythm is played a third time that we really know we're in C minor, rather than what could be E flat major.

There will be changes for the fifth Test starting on Friday – minor rather than major surgery, most likely – but the coach and his drained captain, Alastair Cook, will not be among the casualties.

Mr. Newbrough, who spoke no German, would have automatically become a citizen if his American-born stepfather had formally adopted him when he was a child, or if his mother had been naturalized while he was a minor, rather than just four years ago.

But he struggled under the pressure, Girardi said, and the Yankees felt it was better for him to continue his development by playing every day in the minors rather than twice a week with the major league club.

The State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany, in 2010, presumably having blown its entire budget on snowshoes, famously announced it would eliminate its pesky French, Italian, Russian, classics, and theater departments though it did semi-resurrect French, Russian, and theater the following year as minors rather than majors.

Those guidelines ordered US Attorneys to prioritize, among other things, stopping large-scale drug trafficking operations and distribution of marijuana to minors, rather than marijuana sales that are legal under state laws.

She also rejected concerns that Finra had often fined small companies for minor violations rather than taking on larger companies and bigger problems.

The report; defines a war as ongoing when only 25 killings per year are occurring, uses national surveys with multiyear recall periods to examine short minor conflicts rather than examining the conflict-affected populations, weighs minor conflicts and major wars as similar events, and selectively cites sources to make their points often ignoring the overall conclusions of those same sources.