Sentence examples for was swifter than from inspiring English sources

Of course, we should be glad that the Iraq war was swifter than even its proponents had expected, and that a vicious tyrant was removed from power.

The pace here was swifter than that of many other quartets, so that the deep melancholy of the music gained an added dimension in the inexorable passing of time.

The riposte of the Central Powers was swifter than the progress of the invasion: Germany, Turkey, and Bulgaria declared war against Romania on August 28, August 30, and September 1, respectively; and Falkenhayn had plans already prepared.

While the project was swifter than many similar efforts, the homes were described by one refugee as poultry incubators, and many people expected they would spend just months in the houses, not years.

When the president realized that one such craft was swifter than his own, another transfer of ownership occurred.

The development of the game was swifter than planned; in October 2007, Sega announced that Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games scheduled release date for the Wii has been advanced by two weeks and the game had gone gold.

London's pedestrians are swifter than those in Lima.

The recovery has been swifter than anyone imagined.

Also, the replacement of PCs will be swifter than the rate of their penetration".

But a shift in the world's reserve currency could be swifter than many assume.The dollar's other competitor, the euro, has deeper problems.

His reactions were swifter than my intentions, and he could beat me to positions I had only just decided to take up.