Sentence examples for rather than a major from inspiring English sources

This is welcome relief rather than a major stimulus package.

The current virus appears to be a minor mutation, rather than a major new shift.

As the precursor to the 24, Spa is usually a race for tinkering rather than a major test of machinery.

Grant's Tomb, a neoclassical structure, was actually the butt of jokes (Who's buried in Grant's Tomb?) rather than a major tourist destination.

If Ian Poulter is eventually to retire as a Ryder Cup icon rather than a major winner, he will not lose too much sleep about it.

As for his rock 'n' roll fantasy, Mr. Pascal said that his recording's release on an Internet rather than a major commercial label does not bother him.

Investigators characterized the operation as an informal arrangement among a network of acquaintances rather than as a major drug ring.

But rather than produce a major partisan imbalance, the money merely evened the playing field in many races.

Rather than create a major diplomatic incident they let the Libyan suspects in PC Yvonne Fletcher's 1984 murder go home.

Rather than begin a major new home-building programme, Havering prefers infilling existing plots and ensuring the mix of homes is right.

The proposed change in the formal security relationship would probably also involve a shift to stating that Israel was a "strategic, major non-NATO ally" rather than just a "major non-NATO ally," officials said.