Sentence examples for rather than substantial from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, Dan Saccardi says the word "ecoefficiency" gets to him "because it settles for marginal/intenisty gains rather than substantial impact".

By providing military aid rather than substantial social and economic assistance, the United States is missing an opportunity to address the real roots of insurgency and drug production in Colombia.

Clayton Christensen, academic (1952–), The Innovator's Dilemma (1997)"There are times at which it is right not to listen to customers, right to invest in developing lower performance products that promise lower margins, and right to aggressively pursue small, rather than substantial, markets".

Is the height of a man a reality in the same sense in which he is a reality, or is it just an aspect of something more concrete, a mere quality that has derivative rather than substantial being and could not exist except as attributed to something else?

Tuning gene expression to perform metabolic optimization rather than substantial overexpression or inactivation of genes is thus far more appreciated.

Antagonism between the main parties - the Awami League and Bangladesh Nationalist Party - to a large degree reflects personal animosity between leaders rather than substantial ideological differences.

not in terms of different kinds of "stuff" either material or mental; dynamic elements like activities and forces must be the primary constituents of reality rather than more substantial items like material objects and (spiritual) persons.

Frydenberg rebuffed those criticisms, and minimised the review as a "sit-rep" (situation report) rather than a substantial process that would yield any significant policy change.

The key difference would be that the examiner's view would then rise or fall on the merits, rather than enjoying substantial deference from the jury.

Rather than building substantial walls, people hung rolled mats along the eaves, unrolling them as necessary to protect the inhabitants from sun, rain, or the night air.

That might seem like an odd thing to say, given that the concert presents an atypical programme (10 short pieces rather than a substantial symphony or concerto) in an unconventional way: listeners will be able to "come and go as you like", and – shock horror!