Sentences with phrase «rather than the big one»

«Feel good» is a good strategy for an event watched together as a family over a long period where there's time to build a story and a relationship, rather than the Big Game's single chance to break through the clutter.

The satisfaction level of Australian business banking customers has reached its highest level but, rather than the big four, it's the smaller banks that are making them happy, according to a survey by Roy Morgan Research.

While Hope is known for making independent movies rather than big - budget Hollywood blockbusters, Amazon Studios has succeeded in the world of television in part by aligning itself with high - profile directors like Allen and Steven Soderbergh of «Ocean's Eleven» fame.

Betting among veteran observers from banks and think tanks is that he will lean this time toward selective tax breaks and other measures designed to encourage companies to hire and invest, rather than another big round of direct spending.

A more measured approach, rather than a big bang, would, he says, have allowed central banks to warm to them more.

I think that so many times our dreams are clues to who we are / our inner workings rather than a big spiritual thing.

There is order rather than chaos, there are things — all sorts of things — rather than a big primordial blob.

By choosing things like Fairtrade, ethically produced, Organics etc and by buying from small producers rather than big supermarkets we can make a genuine difference to people's lives.

The idea of making mini loaves rather than a big loaf is so cute!

Rather than a big bang, however, it is going to be a slower transition, as there will be no public money to pay the growers to pull out their vines — a process costing about $ 3000 a hectare — and will only happen as large producers such as Treasury Wine Estates, Accolade Wines and Pernod Ricard buy fewer grapes, he said.

Laughton, scratched that game, would not have gotten burned like that because he is a plus skater rather than a big minus skater.

The five most popular sports all lean heavily towards big favorites rather than big dogs.

I messed it up the first time and did a 14 oz can of tomatoes rather than the big 28 oz and it worked out well enough that that's still how I do it today (tried it the real way and prefer my accidental version).

At the same time, if Loon and McGee stick around (fingers crossed) they're pretty well stocked with bigs, so I could see them targeting a guard or wing rather than another big.

but monsieur wenger believes that camaradarie & consistency, rather than big buys are in our future.

Bring in players who WANT to play for us rather than big name players who don't.

He could afford the most expensive doctors and they discovered microdosing small amounts of EPO every day, rather than a big dose at one time will allow you to test negative for all but a short window just after injecting and it also helped prevent sudden cardiac death.

Master League is at its best in around a decade, though like the gameplay this is through iterative alterations rather than a big overhaul.

The ESPN FC source said PSG's preference remains to sell Serge Aurier, Hatem Ben Arfa, Grzegorz Krychowiak, Jese Rodriguez and Blaise Matuidi this summer rather than bigger - name talents such as Angel Di Maria and Lucas Moura.

Rather than a big huge page that you have to scroll up and down that features all the trip reports for that destination, they've been broken down by hotel.

What an amazing giveaway I'd love to win an ipad mini because it would be amazing to take to uni rather than my big heavy laptop, and at home it would be fab for the boys because they could use it to skype to their grandparents in the US, as well as all the great apps for kids xxx

The reporting of the cash - for - access scandal is also typical political reporting from the British press, bouncing from scandal to scandal, and obsessing over trivial detail rather than the bigger picture.

There will be elections for 34 local authorities in England - mostly county councils rather than the big cities.

Again he doesn't name names, but when talking of those who thought small rather than big, the indications are that he is referring to election campaign chief Douglas Alexander.

A new governor will appoint people who are more attuned to the needs of the state — more interested in preserving the environment rather than selling it to developers, more interested in finding alternatives to the ever - expanding road building, more interested in serving the little guy rather than big business, and less interested in legislating social policy than planning economic development.

Connecticut's experience shows that public financing is a fundamental part of a stronger democracy that is more responsive to constituents, rather than big donor and special interests.

Speaking ahead of the European parliamentary elections on the 22nd of May, Ms. Bennett said the European Union needs to become more democratic and work for the interests of its people rather than big multinational companies.

But once these clumps get much bigger than a centimeter, high - speed collisions result in disintegrations rather than bigger clumps.

Even at the time that's where my interests lay — that extra universe that exists at the small scale rather than the big scale.

«Within frogs, we found that they have switched to this second option of making pads stickier rather than bigger.

And I think that's going to be our path to Mars, a much leaner path and one where we are able to use technology to enable the way, rather than a big siege approach.

Thirty - three scientists refuted the suggestion the universe began with a big «bounce» rather than a big bang.

This way the body tends to get stronger rather than bigger since the muscle cells do not experience hypertrophy.

And having in mind that most of you would probably opt for having firm and dense musculature rather than big and soft, we're providing you with the training methods that will help you achieve this goal.

I would add in cardio to slim down the fat and hopefully it will make them look nice and toned rather than bigger!

It's better to have a small portion of really tasty chocolate cake, rather than a big tasteless bar of chocolate or a small scoop of rich ice - cream.

By training, eating and supplementing your nervous system for optimized power and speed, you can build an impressive body that also contains the muscle machinery necessary for amazing quality of life and function, rather than big, bulky muscle that requires excessive energy to carry and cool, and excessive antioxidants to repair.

Eventually, you begin to crave these foods rather than a big piece of peanut butter chocolate pie.

Other studies show that mirrors, although useful for observing and correcting one's form, prompt women with eating disorders to focus selectively on the parts of their bodies they don't like, rather than the bigger picture.

The weather warmed up a little bit briefly last week — enough for me to wear a jacket rather than a big coat.

Rather than a big bag I chose my new Sakura crossbody bag that Jennifer Hamley kindly sent to me.

I tend to stick to lots of tiny layered jewelry rather than big statement pieces.

We want to start with shorter road trips around Florida, and then we really want to do a coast to coast road trip (especially focusing on smaller towns rather than big cities).

Either I'm more into subtle word stitching on the t - shirts rather than a big logo all over the place, this trend is hard not to mention.

Russell doesn't downplay their lower - class foibles; he just uses naturalistic touches rather than big, broad strokes to depict them.

While the story is entertaining enough, it's numerous lulls and predictability felt too often like a lifetime movie rather than a big screen feature film.

I'm a fan of nuanced, subtle performances rather than big showy ones like Bale's and Rush's.

It overstates the emotion of each scene, sticks out like a sore thumb where it should be subtle, and often sounds like something from a made - for - TV movie rather than a big studio film.

Why do vampire movies often take place in rural locations rather than big cities?

That for me gave it more impact than two of the category's fellow nominees, albeit the two I experienced at home rather than the big screen.