Sentence examples for stimulate rather than from inspiring English sources

Divided government can sometimes stimulate rather than depress lawmaking.

"Our banks need a radical transformation if they are to stimulate, rather than depress, economic activity".

Lighten up Go easy on strong, warm colours: they stimulate rather than calm.

Ennahda has thus far used its newfound political heft to stimulate rather than stifle women's participation in Tunisian politics.

The idea that wine tasted dry (who ever heard of a thing?) and could, after 5 p.m., actually stimulate rather than retard an appetite was a bombshell.

Douglas W. McCormick, chairman and chief executive at iVillage, said the elimination of pop-ups might actually stimulate, rather than depress, the network's ad sales.

Unlike some of his peers, he is obviously stimulated rather than cowed by the challenge of playing Van Gerwen.

Bronislaw Geremek, who has died aged 76 in a car crash in western Poland, was from his childhood an intellectual, and one stimulated rather than stifled by the succession of rigours which beset his country before, during and after the second world war.

Moreover, this chemical approach has the potential to be more selective than the electrical one, by allowing individual cells to be stimulated, rather than hundreds simultaneously.This matters because the retina does more than simply relay light signals directly to the brain.

What determines when state policy successfully stimulates rather than deters innovation?

DARE has been largely discredited as preventing drug use; indeed, many say it stimulates, rather than discourages, an interest in drugs.