Sentence examples for rather than dampen from inspiring English sources

After Silk Road was closed, however, rather than dampen the market, it fragmented it.

But the paper has tried to lift rather than dampen people's battered spirits, Takeuchi said.

But the increased concentration has ramped up, rather than dampened, churn among the remaining players.

The military's harsh response may be fueling, rather than dampening, the insurgency.

Even more impressive than the compositional sophistication is how it heightens rather than dampens the street style's energy.

These actions prompted feedbacks that promoted further landscape change that ultimately increased those hazards, rather than dampening the hydro-geomorphological effects of fire.

Once such a system moves away from equilibrium, the (privately) rational choices of individual decision makers tend to accentuate disturbances rather than dampening them.

After that appeared to backfire, drawing more media attention to the subject rather than dampening it down, Cosby's lawyer put out a statement saying that the star "does not intend to dignify these allegations with any comment".

The government amplifies rather than dampens the threat in the hope that fear will bring MPs from both main parties into acquiescing to the prime minister's Brexit deal.

The government has responded with what the German news media have called an "iron silence," which has fueled rather than dampened the furor over a sale that experts estimate would be worth roughly $2.5 billion.

The subsequent news that China's rate of consumer-price inflation shot up to 4.4% in June has added to concerns that its red-hot economy is now fuelling rather than dampening global inflation.Such fears are overblown.