Sentence examples for rather that major from inspiring English sources

Shorten contests that the 2014 federal budget did not fail because it was "too exciting, too visionary or too bold", but rather that major policy objectives stalled in the Senate because they were "fundamentally unfair".

Tablet computers generated plenty of excitement at the gathering, which ends Thursday, although hardware makers promoted modest variations on the concept rather than major breakthroughs that would distinguish their products from Apple's iPad.

Less is known about the links between pathogen effectors and the mechanism of resistance in other species, however it has previously been reported that, rather than major gene resistance, quantitative resistance is present in many species, including strawberry.

For example, increasing host tolerance is theoretically less effective for improving performance of populations infected with pathogens that cause minor rather than major mastitis.

A draft 3.0 is also on the docket, but observers anticipate that it will contain minor rather than major revisions.

He told the senators that repairing the board may call for small common-sense improvements rather than major structural changes.

That means no flowers at the altar, vestments of linen rather than brocade and music played in minor rather than major keys.

Rather, the major factor that compensated for the prescribed difference in morning eating patterns was that regular daily breakfast resulted in significantly higher physical activity thermogenesis than occurred with extended morning fasting.

Yet, we make no a priori assumption that the shifta war alone was responsible for the collapse of the pastoral economy, but rather that it was a major contributing factor.

The analysis reveals that major disparities are rather common among the hypotheses regarding the higher-level relationships of platyrrhines.

Rather, the major problem is that the VZV Oka strain may produce disease in recipients that are severely immunocompromised [27].