Sentence examples for rather than soft from inspiring English sources

Will it give direct aid rather than soft loans?

Much of the attention given to the report has thus focused on its preference for "hard" rather than "soft" subjects.

He even makes the case that using the sugar from corn to make fuel rather than soft drinks could help the obesity problem in the United States.

On the face of it, there is, as yet, little reason to believe that a hard, rather than soft, landing is more likely.

Only a dish of scrambled eggs with bean shoots and crab meat (£9.50) is woefully ordinary, shreddy and stringy rather than soft and curdy.

If disorder increases, terrorist plots continue and the media carries on encouraging hard rather than soft policing, any changes could be for the worse not the better.

Styled with oversized neon earrings and short, spiky black wigs, it was hard-edged and striking rather than soft-focus princess pretty.

She is neither quite the sorrowing princess, nor the downy swan, and in the Act 2 pas de deux she gives us careful precision rather than soft-backed surrender.

"Things could make that landing harder rather than softer, but the chances of that happening are not materially greater than a year ago".

He insists on addressing me as Mrs Cartner-Morley, pronounced with the flourishes of a Spanish accent that has become quirkier rather than softer after 40 years in Britain.

The most attractive coating composition is in the range 14 20 at.% W, if controlled deposition promotes crystalline alloys of high hardness, rather than softer amorphous alloys containing >20 at.% W. This paper employs ammonia free baths with low concentrations of cobalt and sodium tungstate and varying additions of sodium gluconate to produce alloys at close to 50% efficiency.