This is just a variant on the old adage that one lawyer in town will starve, but two will prosper".
A variant on the Union Carbide Disappearance gambit would involve selling one or more subsidiaries' assets, but leaving the current corporate structure in place.
She has another admirer, the burly and bullying Chaval, and so begins one of Zola's love triangles: a variant on the disturbing threesome in Thérèse Raquin (1867).
A variant on the big society.
The next is a variant on the same thing.
The exception was "Fanfares," Ligeti's relentless and fiercely difficult variant on the two-part invention.
The script was substituted by Blackadder's Christmas Carol, a Dickensian variant on the formula.
Even better were his glosses on his own lines - a tactful variant on the line-reading.
Rhythmically, the poem seems to be a loose variant on the elegiac couplet.
It is another variant, and in this case a very gentle variant, on the basic pattern.
You could kick and punch them both, making this an early variant on the beat-'em-up genre.
