Sentence examples for rather than sudden from inspiring English sources

Most are "smoldering" rather than sudden, and are the result of mistakes that management has made.

Their impact may be cumulative and psychological rather than sudden and material.

Michele Bachmann's surge was not quite as dramatic as the others, and her fade was gradual rather than sudden.

Social change of this type and magnitude is difficult to comprehend, particularly because it is continuous rather than sudden.

BALTIMORE — In a quirky effort to spin the positive, the N.C.A.A. refers to overtime games in its lacrosse tournaments as "sudden victory" rather than "sudden death".

But the change was gradual rather than sudden, and was based on a relationship between money and power inherited from a previous era.

What I want to work toward is a slow and graceful depopulation, rather than a sudden and catastrophic one".

For many, the decision-making process involved a painful weighing of many issues rather than a sudden epiphany.

It was a brief moment, however, and was probably down to a Facebook glitch rather than a sudden swing.

Mr. Rifkin said he intended to move slowly at the Menil, respecting tradition rather than making sudden policy shifts.

Yet even there the likely immediate outcome of the euro zone's crisis is the enfeeblement of an already weak recovery, rather than a sudden slump.