Sentence examples for rather than intense from inspiring English sources

But, in fact, while the culture wars hadn't gone away entirely, it was more smouldering about historical issues rather than intense fires.

Institutionally inclusive land and housing policies, rather than intense top-down control, are needed in China.

While California is one of the in the places in the country least affected by the flu--one of the only a small handful of states rated on Google Flu Trends as having "high" rather than "intense" flu activity--the trend has pointed to exponential growth as the virus continues to spread.

There were several reasons for choosing tasks that elicited moderate rather than intense responses.

These modifications may be associated with moderate rather than intense exercise and may have a protective effect [ 7, 10].

However, it may be clinically plausible that patients experience postoperative numbness rather than intense pain immediately after nerve division.

The contralateral femurs showed considerably less evidence of Cx43 staining (lower abundance and intensity) and tended to be present in discrete packets rather than the intense, continuous staining observed in the injured bone (data not shown).

And both within America and globally, long-run improvements in oil output are primarily due to the development of new fields, rather than more intense extraction from oil fields.

So if the landform is a delta, the researchers suggest, it is a strong sign that Mars once had lakes and other long-lasting water features, rather than brief intense floods as some scientists think.

Most of what passes for aesthetic appreciation does not begin to have this effect, but its failure is only because it is not aesthetic appreciation at all it is a kind of tired reverie rather than an intense absorption in the aesthetic object.

They were in fact playing In Every Dream Home A Heartache, which Ross had previously explained would be his dream song choice until his wife pointed out he should get them to play "the hits" rather than an intense six-minute fanboy favourite.