Sentence examples for small but active from inspiring English sources

Mrs. Giuliani took a small, but active role in her son's campaigns for mayor.

The dissident republican group has a small but active presence in the Lurgan and Craigavon areas of north Armagh.

Beijing now has a small but active rock music scene, a large community of painters and sculptors, and a steady stream of sometimes shocking performance art.

Some of them were supplied by Alliance@IBM, a small but active unit of the Communications Workers of America union, and some by I.B.M. workers directly.

While message boards have largely fallen out of favor, a small but active community still keeps conversations going on Personality Cafe, or PerC to the real heads.

KARACHI, Pakistan — In Karachi, on the eve of its holy month of mourning, the city's small but active Shiite Bohra sect has gone into overdrive.

Hanson argues that AI is moving too slowly, while only three technologies need coincide to make an Em possible: faster and cheaper computers, which the world has in hand; brain scanning, which is being worked on by a much smaller but active biological community; and the modelling of the human mind, "which is harder to predict".

She's built up a small (300) but active list of clients.

Thus, specifically modified CaSR-pharmacochaperones that are ineffectively absorbed in the small intestine, but active in the colon, could be used to be highly effective locally without significantly affecting systemic Ca2 + homeostasis.

Gilchrist, S. A.; Wheatland, M. S.; Leka, K. D. The NOAA active region (AR) 11029 was a small but highly active sunspot region which produced 73 GOES soft X-ray flares during its transit of the disk in late October 2009.

Deep Impact was retargeted to fly past 103P/Hartley 2, a small but very active comet.