Sentence examples for stems not so from inspiring English sources

Problem-causing drag behind the car stems not so much from frontal resistance as from swirling eddies of turbulent air at the rear.

Yet it has become increasingly clear that the appeal of the Islamists stems not so much from their religious standing or their promises to impose sharia law as from their superior ability to harness the resentments of Egypt's poor.

Picking up the question of authorial voice, CalebHildenbrandt wrote: "I tend to think much of the similarities between F's and P's narratives stems not so much from an indirectness of the style as from the fact that F and P are very similar people--and why wouldn't Franzen want to write about people like himself?

The student anger, stoked through e-mail messages sent to large campus mailing lists, stems not so much from satisfaction with the Chinese government but from shock at the portrayal of its actions, as well as frustration over the West's long-standing love affair with Tibet — a love these students see as willfully blind.

PPE's reputation for being a bit of a doss compared with other courses stems not so much from the amount of work that is required – most students remember feeling they could never hope to cover all the reading they were given – but from the freedom they have to do it.

Perhaps the taste for inventiveness stems not so much from reaching back into modernism, but more from the desire to find something representative of the physically detached, digitally connected way most of us communicate, just as Joyce was compelled to find a new way to express the rapidly changing face of the early 20th century.

For Karin Ottesen, a 30-year-old resident of Gramercy Park, forcing herself back to work the week after the attack stemmed not so much from a desire to resist terrorism as from a desire to help others.

As the great historian of Stalinism Robert Conquest puts it, the human tragedies of Communism and Fascism stemmed "not so much from problems as from solutions, not from forces outside human control but from ideas, and actions dictated by ideas".

Mr. Rosow said that for Japanese employers opposition to unions stemmed not so much from fear that unions would drive up wages and other labor costs but from traditional Japanese labor-management relations, in which workers, even those in unions, do not generally oppose management.

Opposition to the proposed South African law, for example, stemmed not so much from what will be lost in Africa but what might happen if other, more affluent countries decide to follow suit.Drug firms have also underestimated the power of interest groups to mobilise support from the public and politicians.

Chrysler's immediate troubles stem not so much from a faltering economy but from a spectacularly ill-timed push by Schrempp to pump up earnings early last year.