Sentence examples for rather than steep from inspiring English sources

"Moreover, the pill will be sweetened by strong reassurances that a benign inflation outlook means the path of further rate rises will be gently sloping and carefully measured, rather than steep and aggressive".

Only 22 seconds cover the first 26 riders in the overall standings with four stages to go, but on Thursday the tour should take shape after the summit finish at Hartside between Penrith and Alston in the Pennines, and an exposed five-mile climb, dragging rather than steep, topping out at 1,904 feet.

IF FOR nothing else, the dictators of Tunisia and Egypt must be thanked for bowing out rather than steeping themselves in blood.

But Winter's characters — a rogues' gallery of hard men, sexy dames, secretly gay matinee idols, pornographers and dope dealers — are merely sleazy rather than steeped in moral rot.

If you have a Moroccan teapot or a heatproof teapot, rather than steeping, set the teapot over low heat and bring the tea to a low simmer.

About 1.5 million of the departing customers will be employees of companies that drop Prudential Health Care rather than pay steep premium increases, Aetna said.

In situ and meteoric 10Be concentrations of Coral Sea beach sand near Cairns are similar to those in rivers on the Atherton Tablelands, suggesting that most sediment is derived from the extensive, low-gradient uplands rather than the steep, more rapidly eroding but beach proximal escarpment.

GameSpy's Benjamin Turner felt that the difficulty level was unbalanced rather than too steep, and that once a player gains a foothold on the gameplay and collects enough Battle Chips and power-ups, the challenge subsides.

This finding matches the gradual decrease of testosterone with age rather than the steep decrease in estrogen occurring around the time of menopause (Burger et al. 2002).

The risk on adverse perinatal outcome is considered to increase gradually rather than a steep increase from 42 weeks onwards, though the literature on this subject is ambiguous [ 16– 16].

We have assumed that there are underlying limits to long-term variation in growth rate; it is not expected to be persistently high, and the bell-shaped curve should therefore have a shallow slope with a low max, rather than a steep slope with a high max.