As weak as this year's Republican field has proved, it's not that much weaker than a number of recent presidential vintages, from the Democrats' lineups in 1988 and 2004 to the Republican field in 1996.
Then again, Ms. Everhart's argument isn't that much weaker than what the Proposition 8 defense team offered up at the Supreme Court last week, like the idea that it's acceptable to ban same-sex marriage because of society's "interest in responsible procreation".
What if, to change the metaphor, the problem is not so much weak foundations, at least not yet in the United States, as a leaking roof, bad wiring and faulty plumbing?
He was not so much "weak" as cack-handed.
The "low emissions" language in the text is not so much weak as artfully non-specific.
And in "The Idea of Perfection," a novel that won Britain's Orange Prize last year, Grenville gradually builds just such a structure between her two possible lovers, who are not so much weak as they are wearied by life's indignities and assaults.
If so, the inducing environmental signal presumably is not present or much weaker in vitro, where phenotypes dependent on the DGC activity of Y3730 are not detected unless y3730 is highly overexpressed or hmsP is deleted.
Cell death was inhibited by S-ketoprofen, but not by the much weaker COX inhibitor R-ketoprofen.
Growth, not coincidentally, is much weaker, too.
Similar plots for Lys-PC/PS membrane (data not shown) reveal much weaker electrostatic potential near the adsorbate, indicative of lower charge accumulation around Lys.
