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Lamar lived up to the hype as one of the best players in college basketball, but his team. . . well. . . not so much.

In the name of agriculture, it has not so much to do with agriculture in fact.

The sport has given me a lot. Not so much memories, but rather values. Well now that I can use as a manager.

For a girl, marrying into the husband's household was not so much a matter of marrying the husband, then, as marrying the mother-in-law.

For the idea of a world free of nuclear weapons is not so much an impossible dream as an impossible nightmare.

He had not so much as the price of a cup of coffee on him.

But don't be fooled. Just like the rest of the city, it is not so much an east-meets-west experience.

This was designed not so much to shield the peripheral countries from a market run as it was to "bail in" private lenders.

Law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation as the direction of a free an intelligent man to his proper interest.

Marcel Proust said, "The true voyage of discovery is not so much in seeking new landscapes as in having new eyes. "

However, this is not so much a weakness in his work as it is the inevitable result of scholars' neglect of this period.

And yet what continues to drive much of the criticism of Greenspan is not so much his record at the Fed but his recent political commentary.

It was not so much the many blows he received as the lack of fighting spirit that led to his losing the game.

The important point here is not so much that the British treated him forbearingly as that he was always able to command publicity.

He was, upon the whole, the more liberalminded, though, with greater subtlety, he had not so much heart.

The scene took place on a bus, and the deep bow was not so much for the lady, or for her husband, but for Denmark's great scientist.

Financial globalisation itself, they imply, ought to be seen not so much as a bad thing, but as too much of a good one.

They're not so much the result of the planet's vulcanism as they are the cause of it.

It was not so much a victory for multilateralism as a recognition that no nation could afford to go it alone in this global crisis.

And yet financial services were not so much a victim of the inflows of foreign capital as an eager accomplice.

I tell myself that I'm not so much yearning for free refills as I'm longing for that feeling of belonging anywhere I happen to be.

In Britain (or at least England), the tradition of sectarian enmity was not so much purged from the body politic as mislaid.

It appears that this theory is not so much wrong (the "O. K. Club" certainly existed) as it is incomplete.

Her presence had not so much weight as to task thought, and yet enough to exercise it.

"On line you need to lie enough to get to coffee, but not so much you don't get to bed, " he says.

Not so much to find out about the other woman, but to see if I could find out what she saw in you!

It is not so much a question of decoupling as [these markets] do not appear to have been tightly linked in the first place.

It is not so much energy to do original, but at least the handling of the pseudo-original thoughts on the details of the content done.

The Delawares have given me my name, not so much account of a bold heart, as on account of a quick eye.

"It's not so much about protecting, it's about going after new customers and markets, " he said.

As is generally agreed, a family without love is not so much of a family as a body without soul in a man.

Not so much, since the ENCSS assures me that it will do everything it can to make it a safe and pleasant trip.

The existence of this phenomenon is not so much an enabling technology as it is a driving technology for mobile cloud computing.

And yet, watching the proceedings in New York, what is striking is not so much the power of the international community as its impotence.

It would not so much be that he made a mistake as that he did not know the whole story.

Most conservatives did not so much signal their disagreement with the report as bellow it.

We're not so much looking at Roma, we only are trying to reach our objective.

Fermat's principle is not so much a computational device as it is a concise way of thinking about the propagation of light .

e. g. We hope to be able to change all this slowly, not so much for our sakes but for our children.

Hostile advertising seems to work not so much by firing up a candidate's own supporters but by suppressing the turnout for the other side.

In talking with Wang and Song it's easy to get the feeling that it's not so much China that's unhappy and angry, but the authors themselves.

The important thing here in the beginning was not so much to get hooked up with anybody in particular and get action going right away.

The house warm breath becomes more valuable, because this winter is not so much natural gas to meet the needs of our life of luxury.

When affecting lights or draining a battery, it is not so much a strong charge as the interference that causes the action.

Cuthbert was, upon the whole, the more liberal-minded, though, with greater subtlety, he had not so much heart.

The bare loss of him as a gallant was not so much my affliction as the loss of his person, whom indeed I loved to distraction.

She works hard on the new post not so much to leave a good impression on the boss as go give full play to her abilities.

He said he worked diligently not so much to fulfill his dreams as to live up to his mother's expectations.

In today's fast-changing world, it's not so much what you know anymore that counts, because often what you know is old.

The main victim of this trend is not so much the newspaper (although it is certainly declining) as the conventional news package.

Not so much hilarious as just funny to think of a guy running through a city doing these things.

Maybe what I can do is not so much but I'll always be with you when you need me.

What is remarkable about the history of toys is not so much how they changed over the centuries but how much they have remained the same.

Considering that she's been searching for this doll since the moment Ondine was born, a hundred and thirty dollars is not so much to spend.

Microsoft apologists have lately tried to say that Microsoft is a great enterprise company, but not so much a consumer company.

The girls did not so much seem accessory wheels to the general machinery as mere cogs to the wheels.

My early questions widen her eyes, not so much like a rabbit in the headlights as a field mouse.

l He did not so much as punish one of the murderers, nor did he show the least tenderness to the survivors.

Now formation wise it's not so much of a problem as we only play with one up front now anyway, but it's still a little step backwards.

So far the main hurdle has been getting RNA into the target cells, but the eye's accessibility means this is not so much of a problem.

The guy got promoted not so much by his utter devotion to his job as by fawning upon his supervisor.

It was not so much that I had earlier been nave. It was that I took him on trust.

It is not so much that they force their sons and daughters to leave school. rather that tend to say, " It's up to you " .

Nowadays, people seem to be more interested in gossip and not so much the music.

This book is the introduction of economic globalization is not so much as it is a subject of economic globalization for a long newsletter.

That gives the body enough food to be available as an energy source but not so much that you'll have an upset stomach.

His achievement is not so much due to opportunities as due to his own efforts.

Forgiving was more for me to make a better life and not so much to absolve the other person of what I perceived to be their wrongdoing.

Mm, not so much. Hey, if it's any consolation, You happen to be the illegitimate half brother Of the guy we do care about.

It was not so much the little less or more that he objected to as the failure to be up to the standard.

And his mouth watered to tear you with his teeth; because he's only half a man--not so much. ''

The guy got promoted not so much by his utter devotion to his work as by fawning upon his supervisor.

Happiness is not so much by any other means, as it is with emotion to achieve this sensitivity.

The defining common trait of these places is not so much poverty or criminality, though these certainly flourish, as tribalism.

Asian culture tends to focus on English reading and grammar and not so much on conversational speaking.

I volunteer not so much to help others, but to gain some perspective about my own life. But in the end, I suppose I accomplish both.

These figures suggest that, at school at least, black people's problem is not so much race as poverty.

So not so much whether something is usable or not, but how easy it is to understand, engage and have a dialogue with a brand.

Sayers kept in mind that she was first of all a human being and aimed to be true not so much to her gender as to her humanity.

Her novels are not miniatures, but she did work on a surface not so much bigger than those two imagined inches of ivory.

The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide.

"On the matter of diet they are not so much in agreement, " he continued.

These countries did not so much export less after they revalued as export different, more expensive things.

As he was of high birth and of a showy person, the vain Julia was not so much in love as to be insensible to his attentions.

Mr Carbone said the issue is not so much about shifting jobs to Asia but helping companies grow in the US.

There's not so much pressure for a couple to splash out big money on a wedding like there used to be.

I sent thee late a rosy wreath, Not so much honouring thee, As giving it a hope that there It could not withered be.

Not so much as I could wish, Sir; but I dare say he may spend half his time here; and Miss Darcy is always down for the summer months.

Not so much time out of a busy day. So what if she got home a little later than she had planned?

But the main effects of his cutting loose from global obligations may be felt not so much by the West as by opponents at home.

It is not so much about passion, as it is about finding out which values you share, and the kind of interests you both enjoy.

Under state capitalism, governments do not so much reject the market as use it as an instrument of state power.

It is not so much a matter of wanting to escape one's suffering, though it may seem to be so.

"It's not so much what my husband says, " a tearful wife confides, "as the way he says it. Why dose he have to yell at me? "

Ok, I see you have come to see me not so much to complaIn and get thIng straIghten out In a reasonable fashIon.

Sometimes it is not so much to say people for money as to say they for survival, though survival itself needs more income.

If they knows about it, then he could join with you for healthy eating, so there is not so much bad food in the house.

A lot of times, you'll try to judge a bull by how his bugle sounds - if it's deep and gnarly sounding. . . but this time, not so much.

that one not so much for the party. We'll find some good colors. Those are nice and bright. Should we take a look at those you think?

That is nice for once, I am not so much used to that at my work, and I find it quite convenient.

Altman will be remembered, not so much for what he said but for how he said it.

Japanese companies are not so much wary of foreigners as they are closed to outsiders of any stripe.

Wine is not so much to disk, rather than pouring drinks wine, only a small mouth.

"It is not so much the destruction of physical infrastructure, but the scar recent events have had on the national psyche, " he says.

This legislation has not so much represented governmental action as an outline of suggestions for governmental action.

If you understand how compilers work, what's really going on is not so much that Lisp has a strange syntax as that Lisp has no syntax.

The great iconic images do not so much need myths and legends as attract them like magnets.

Also, corporate blogging is not so much an extension of any prior concept.

Rapid population growth is due not so much less than the birth rate rose as a result of the decline in mortality.

it's a funny, beautifully made romance, and it's not so much of a surprise that it is being released in a prime position for awards season.

Sitting and enjoying the beauty of nature is not so much of an option anyway: everything in the Treasure Valley goes dormant for the winter.

It's perhaps not so much to do with the mechanical components of the method as much as the way they are implemented.

Football is not so much a beautiful game, but more a way of life for everyone at the Spanish club, as Owen Slot discovered.

For me, the biggest impact over a certain salaried threshold, is not so much earning more money, but watching your expenditures.

I'm not so much partial to having my own lips licked and sucked, but I'm a big fan of doing it to my girlfriend.

He is not so much of help as I thought he would be.

"Risk management ensures there's not so much of that trade now, " said HSBC's Gascoigne.

For this we need not so much a political as an intellectual revolution, namely the overthrow of the balanced budget fetish.

Adults can be just as guilty of not so much leaping as tunneling to conclusions.

You should ensure that the briefing paper contains some background information but not so much that it interrupts the main flow of the text.

That's going to be a theme that we'll see over and over in Acts; not so much in the Gospel of Luke.

Leverage did not so much disappear as become socialised.

"The innovation was not so much the technology but the business model. It brought down the barrier of entry significantly, " Mr Cheng says.

See, it's not so much that the holidays are full of hyper-caloric foods, but it's that we tend to ignore portion sizes during the holidays.

Often, Baum says, "the issue is not so much how am I going to pay for college but how am I going to live while I'm in college. "

The significance of the story though, is not so much in the magnitude of the shift but rather in the direction of travel.

Thirty years after Tito's death, there is not so much to celebrate in his legacy, except that the wars are over.

Asked if he had ever been through something this bad before, he says, "in my political life, not so much" .

Indeed, it is not so much identical conclusions that prove minds to be related as the contradictions that are common to them.

I concur it is a formidable challenge, but not so much that we cannot at least try to find ways to improve it.

AY: Not so much because we emailed back and forth just to say how you doing, nothing crazy serious.

A little decoration would be interesting, but not so much bling that it matches the chrome on my truck.

Z: well, that's true. In a sense, it is not so much what you drink that really counts, as where and how you drink.

Recently, a number of forums with a message-crazy, not so much a message as it is a riddle.

not so much when everything is going well, but especially when you are working through a difficult patch.

Behind that decline in real rates, argues the McKinsey Global Institute, was not so much a savings glut as an investment dearth.

At the Haijiu Battery Factory, which exports to the United States, regulation of lead emissions was not so much lax as nonexistent.

I think it looks like an arm with the muscles exposed. At Bodyworlds, it was cool. At 300 meters tall. . . Not so much.

FOR millions of East Asians, online gaming is not so much a hobby as a way of life.

English language is not so much a set of knowledge of language or a major field (a curriculum) of study as an instrument of communication.

Some get it straight away, like the teetotal James Milner and Jordan Henderson, and some not so much, like Joe Hart and Adam Johnson.

It is in this sense, not so much of Chinese art to love at the core, rather it to "like" as the core.

In Georgia, Russia was defending not so much the separatists but its own ruling class and its value system.

Eric Hodel: Not so much simpler as less complex and easier to understand and maintain.

Something is given not so much to the gaze as to the eye, something that involves the abandonment, the laying down, of the gaze.

In these industries, China is not so much an engine of demand as a transmission belt for demand originating elsewhere.

The film industry's real problem, says John Sloss, a consultant, is not so much a shortage of films as a shortage of eyeballs .

They use false credentials not so much to advance their careers as to project their personal image as an icon.

not so much a real time data collection system as a real time information and position system.

The reason for the rapid increase in population is not so much a rise in birth rate as a fall in death rate .

Memories are not so much about remembering the past as being able to anticipate and predict multiple possible futures.

Not so much. There are Chinese restaurants all over France, so I was already used to it before I came here.

Now, understandably many of these products are not so much Designed as driven by engineering requirements, cost, and short timelines.

Breivik is not so much racist as anti-Muslim: all his hatred is focused on the Muslim threat.

Not so much regaining the knowledge as helping people to understand why things happen in this life. So you can understand.

After the first day I rode little , not so much out of pity for the languishing nag , but because everyone else marched .

Those who wear it are not so much emulating Guy Fawkes as the masked revellers of yore who might mock the local bishop at a fair.

This book is cast not so much as a description of his travels, but rather as a warning.

He loves her not so much for herself as as for her money.

However, the reason is probably not so much the beauty and utility of his faces, both of which are almost universally acknowledged.

Servant leadership is not so much about developing organizations as it is about developing people.

And we've decided that we should think about this not so much in terms of cost , but in terms of simplicity .

This is not so much an attack against what might be termed fantasy or myth but rather a defence of the dogma.

The current fear is not so much that the housing market could drive America into recession, although that could still happen.

Spammers jumped all over it - no safe haven there . Not so much , now - . Info sites can rank highly.

What worries traders and investors is not so much who wins as the possibility that no one will.

In the club we have impressive players, of the best of the world, and in the Selection, also, though we are not so much time together.

Well, not so much actually, other than the fact that Rupert Murdoch's wife has got a very good left punch.

Critics say, Hal 'many portrait works, is not so much more, than say genre painting portraits some appropriate.

David: Yeah, that's a part of Chinese culture. You can see that in other cultures too, but not so much in American culture.

What surprised her the most was not so much the varied requests but being able to find happiness in the process.

Valentine's Day, in the eyes of the young, is not so much a substitute for Qixi, but rather an extension of the love theme.

Their mistake was not so much the decision to invest in biotech stocks, as an inflated belief in the value of science-based patents.

The cause of the decline in handwriting may lie not so much in computers as in standardized testing.

It's not so much that, at 50, she looked much younger than her sister, as that she had no signs of age whatsoever.

In this view, social entrepreneurship is not so much about pattern-breaking change, but about pattern-breaking individuals.

we are the envy of the rest of the universe It's not so much that immortality, what the rest of them have, is unattractive or boring.

He said: "There is so much focus on the soldiers when they're leaving Denmark and going to war, but not so much when they come back. "

They did not so much as greet the leader, but joined the one, sniffling and hitching and scraping their feet.

Not so much but I overlook many churches and the water is only five minutes' walk away.

In other ways, like the number of users right now or the risk of spam, not so much.

They were designed not so much to pass power to civilian politicians as to entrench the junta's own power.

It's not so much of a problem for us in 21st-century North America because most women have fairly ready access to cesarean section.

Good. You did get the word. That makes my job easier. Not so much explaining.

Some of these figures are not so much changes as corrections.

This is not so much order tracking as it is viewing the interactions between the Web services which comprise the sample application.

It was not so much a rebirth as a recovery of an older culture.

"The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. " - Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Believe me looking and feeling like a lobster with scorching skin is not so much fun!

Admissions officers are chasing not so much a more perfect student as a more perfect class.

The key is not so much the nature of the proffered evidence as the purpose for which that evidence is proffered.

The Apollo program was not so much a scientific achievement as a technical accomplishment.

What caused the controversy was not so much the content, which is vague enough for almost everyone to agree with it.

All those years of appreciation, but in real terms not so much.

It's not so much the surge height that concerns him as the state's lack of hurricane experience.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

This is not so much a crime as part of the implied contract between you and your entourage.

It was a question now not so much of physical stength but of spiritual endurance which kept him up.

Life is not so much what happens to you, as the choices you make. Choose well.

This is not so much in respect of the equalisation in price of capital in terms of nominal interest rates.

In all your encounters with others, remember that it's not so much what you say but how you say it.

Pursue not so much the material as the ideal, for ideals alone invest our lives with meaning and are of enduring worth.

Not so much in the early parts, which tell the story of a drug dealer being arrested.

Learn to think not so much about the past or future, but about what you are going through right now.

But what should rightly concern American military planners is not so much the missile but the new Chinese naval strategy behind it.

But in truth, the biggest events of 2008 were not so much one-off actions as culminations of trends that had been building for years.

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but which direction we are moving. --Oliver Wendell Holmes.

I believe the art of living consists not so much in complicating simple things as in simplifying things that are not.

In the age of Kali the duration of life is shortened, not so much because of insufficient food, but because of irregular habits.

pursue not so much the material as the ideal , for ideals along invest life with meaning and are of enduring worth.

Central to it was not so much the baby's fate as Marjorie's loss which she experienced as her own.

I have not so much as heard of him, much less know him.

To create "people" and the manufacture of culture was not so much creative activity is personal, as it is social.

The important thing is not so much the actual population of the world , but its rate of increase.

IMS strategi benefit wirelin is not so much a new technology as it is an implementation standard for existing technologies.

The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.

APT is not so much a specific program as it is a collection of separate, related packages.

Cather's work is not so much about "the prairie" but about the humans who lived there, and the human relationships that followed.

not so much by the intensity of different signals as by their context, significance, and information content.

I too am part of that ocean my love, we are not so much separated. . .

At first it might seem expensive to you but compared with years of fitness club membership this is not so much .

It is not so much the label itself that matters, in other words, but the process that must be gone through to create it.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you brings to life.

We're not so much interested in how as building meets the ground as we are how a building meets the sky.

The attitude I absorbed was not so much that -- polite people never thought about sex, but that no one did.

The problem was not so much deregulation but regulation's failure to evolve with the so-called "shadow banking system" .

A stupid question, yet somehow I felt it held the key to my future, or perhaps not so much my future as my capacity for suffering.

It's not so much you. You were fat. You had your own problems.

This signifies not so much a drag on the world economy as a realignment of its centre of gravity.

Experts say the coming crime wave is not so much due to poverty as to a poverty of values.

What excited Fisher most was not so much finding a location, an address, for love as tracing its specific chemical pathways.

But over the coming decade, the real challenge could come not so much from building such infrastructure as from managing it efficiently.

if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion.

Some researchers also theorize that dopamine is not so much pleasure but about the expectation or prediction of pleasure.

No fields bordered it, no dwelling anywhere. Not so much as the barking of a dog suggested human habitation.

I am not so much indifferent , it is better to say frankly that I fear more for being soft-hearted own .

As with Jody, evil is localized not so much in a person as in a broader set of beliefs.

The terms "many" and "few" are delineated not so much by the numbers of firms as by the competitive interaction among firms.

The strength of knowledge consists not so much in its wide spectrum as in its wide application .

A neurosis is not so much an illness in the strict sense as a psychosocial phenomenon.

It is not so much the award we have been given but rather the historic privilege we had of playing a role in ending a war.

Adaptability is built on retaining the tactics employed not so much by start-up companies as by businesses still based in parents' garages.

Another way of transferring energy, called "inductive coupling" , is not so much wireless as plugless.

Despite the title, her latest book is not so much a case for God as a case against atheism.

The bigger blow to Mr Obama comes not so much from the failure of a project that was never, given the nature of politics, really viable.

The story spins around themes that are crucial to Scorcher, not so much to Stephen.

Pursue not so much the material as the ideals alone invest life with meaning and are of enduring worth.

But they say the situation is not so much that boys are falling behind as the girls are catching up with boys.

Not so much that he was a musician, I would rather say that he was a poet.

Well, not so much in the sample provided, as you can see below.