Sentence examples for rather than pervasive from inspiring English sources

ODI concluded that political uses of PSNP "appear to be locally specific rather than pervasive or systematic".

In a way he sounds like an unelectronic James Blake, where the dubstep influence is implied rather than pervasive.

There's only so much these high priests and priestesses can do, and when both the science and the tools are still under frantic development, progress tends to be patchy and punctuated rather than pervasive.

This double dissociation suggests that semantic memory and episodic memory have the capacity to develop separately and supports models of modularity within memory development and a functional architecture for the developmental disorders within which there is residual normality rather than pervasive abnormality.

They declared that they had found no "systemic" threat to the financial system from the foreclosure problems, spoke of "mistakes" and "errors" rather than pervasive fraud and said the banks and servicers now need to "fix" their "processes".

Here, although we detected some positively selected sites in the primate Tetherin, we found that Tetherin as a whole experiences neutral evolution rather than pervasive positive selection throughout primate evolution, as well as in non-primate mammal evolution.

(Of these, the last is the most vital to the American interest, but it would unfortunately end up in the hands of a media that lacks all interest in a substantial critique of how money and power now mesh to society's detriment, and it would be covered as a problem unique to Clinton rather than a pervasive problem in our political system).

Indeed, Scogin et al (1992) found that despite pre to post-treatment reductions in state anxiety, such improvements were not maintained at follow-up, suggesting that decreases in state anxiety might have resulted from relaxation procedures immediately proceeding administration of assessment measures, rather than more pervasive effects.

It helps that Ms. Johnson's brain damage was limited to discrete lesions rather than being diffuse or pervasive, the scientists say.

Revolution in this region -- and everywhere except a few outliers in Eastern Europe, for that matter -- is perhaps better understood in the classical sense: a cyclical process in which one arrives back at the original starting place, rather than a sudden and pervasive change in political reality.

Moreover, the mutation rate of microsatellites is generally high enough to ensure that recurrent mutation is pervasive rather than occasional.