Sentence examples for rest less on from inspiring English sources
At its core, Obama's jurisprudence may rest less on any legal theory or nomenclature than on a more primal political skill — the ability to keep winning elections.
Like all business titans, however, Mr. Redstone's legacy will rest less on his relationships than on the performance of his companies.
In the opinion of many critics, though, Mr. Vidal's ultimate reputation is apt to rest less on his novels than on his essays, many of them written for The New York Review of Books.
All in all, it may be easiest for Mr Gandhi to join high politics as the head of a Congress Party that finds itself, after the general election, in opposition.In the end Congress's fortunes will probably rest less on corruption or on the personalities in government than on the country's economic performance.
The best prospect for coffee growers, in Blackman's view, may rest less on certification and more on producing top-quality coffee.
Yet Strictly's success probably rests less on its modernity than on its old-fashionedness.
The comedy rests less on the ignorance of unwitting contestants than on Mr. Burns's ability to dupe strangers.
The funereal etiquette of the N.R.A. and the G.O.P. rests less on empathy than on an investment in the status quo, and #NeverAgain wants that status quo gone.
One friend suggests that Blavatnik's strategy rests less on new music, and the expensive, speculative business of trying to develop artists, than on Warner's gigantic catalogue of recordings and publishing, from the early sixties to the present.
Except at its loony fringe, Basque nationalism rests less on abuse of "them" than the Scottish sort, and, against Basques as such, arouses none: when Seville or Madrid march against some ETA killing, the slogan is Vascos si, ETA no.
If most political analysts believe that the coalition will endure, their judgment rests less on inherent strength in the partnership than in the reluctance of all three major parties, including Labour, which governed for 13 years until the May 2010 election, to agree to an early election.
