Sentence examples for much as establish from inspiring English sources

It seemed to disrupt any rhythm as much as establish it.

In its early years, the malaria campaign did not so much control the disease itself, as much as establish control over the "malaria question", making it indisputably a state project.

For that to happen, she recognised that the arts needed to be embedded in the education system, that they had to be valued as highly as any other industry, that it was crucial that the population had equality of access to the arts wherever they lived, that new ventures needed to be supported as much as established institutions, and that participation was essential.

However, in contrast to authors of ancient Greek mathematical texts, Liu did not set out to prove theorems so much as to establish the correctness of algorithms.

The Financial Services Authority is intending to allow new banks to run on nearly half as much capital as established ones in effort to bolster competition, a plan which did not appear to be immediately popular with RBS.

His decision to force commercial and industrial guilds, or kabu nakama, into monopolistic associations and to demand licensing fees seems to have been aimed not so much at gaining contributions for the bakufu treasury as much as to establish control over the circulation of commercial goods, linking the city guilds with village producers.

Let's be honest, this round is mostly the football equivalent of elevator music but on Saturday afternoon at Etihad Stadium, two buoyant and threatening finals sides – North Melbourne and the Bulldogs - will square off in a game that won't necessarily affect their finals destination as much as better establish their place among the next-best.

Would this account for his dissociative behavior prior to and following the bombing, which the videos and interviews with his friends and relatives do nothing so much as to establish?

In that regard, the league has reversed course, deciding not to cultivate the casual sports fan as much as the established soccer fan.

The $1.22 billion JPMorgan fund appears to see Twitter as its beachhead in the highly popular social-media sector, much as Goldman Sachs established its presence in the category by raising $1.5 billion to invest in Facebook, an amount that included $1 billion collected from wealthy private individuals outside the United States.

This is also a possible reason for a much greater elasticity as established by Müllen and Göretzlehner [ 12].