With regard to gains versus losses, most items in the CI reference character-state changes that are neither straightforward gains nor straightforward losses.
The story is one of variety becoming uniformity, but the process was neither straightforward nor entirely successful.
Minaj's relationship to the heterosexual male gaze is neither straightforward rejection nor submission, but rather playing with it on a whim, as a cat might play with a mouse.
I stopped drinking, a decision that was neither straightforward nor easy.
The restructuring of the Japanese energy landscape in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster was neither straightforward nor cheap.
On the basis of this evidence, and contrary to a common expectation, the spread of ideas seems neither straightforward nor especially rapid in the academy.
The reality, unfortunately, is that the transition from the bench to a clinical research setting--usually as an entry-level clinical research associate (CRA) or project coordinator--is often neither straightforward nor easy.
The relationship between genome sequence and a complex trait disease phenotype is neither straightforward nor completely understood.
