Sentence examples for rather than breakthrough from inspiring English sources
By that, they mean that increasingly complex products, like smartphones, are triumphs of melding many different technologies — each, to be sure, a smallish step rather than breakthrough.
In short, the inventors at public companies tend to produce more incremental work, rather than breakthrough ideas.
The deal appeared to be an incremental step toward a cease-fire rather than a breakthrough.
For years Mr. Ouroussoff has been excoriating New Yorkers for settling for blandly contextual architecture rather than more breakthrough styles.
Look, Google Clips comes across to me as more of a proof-of-concept device that showcases the power of artificial intelligence as applied to the world of photography rather than a breakthrough consumer device.
So far, industry executives admit to garnering interesting insights rather than stunning breakthroughs.
Although the need for further advances is great, sometimes even urgent, science usually progresses in evolutionary stages rather than revolutionary breakthroughs.
The big things that ignite new markets and change people's behavior, like the personal computer and the Internet, are actually collections of related technologies rather than single breakthroughs — symphonies rather than solo performances.
Japanese patents with foreign co-inventors accounted for less than 3% of the total, compared with 12% in America.Another worry is that Japanese companies concentrate too much on incremental innovations rather than radical breakthroughs.
Tablet computers generated plenty of excitement at the gathering, which ends Thursday, although hardware makers promoted modest variations on the concept rather than major breakthroughs that would distinguish their products from Apple's iPad.
That's in spite of the fact that the iPhone 7, due to launch on 16 September, is likely to come with only modest incremental changes rather than technological breakthroughs (except, perhaps, the controversial removal of the iPhone jack).
