Opponents are presented not so much as wrong but as losers, or, better, sexually inadequate losers.
Not so much as an extra credit clinic for representing impoverished Muslims in a Sharia court of law.
But Roenneberg sees this not so much as a by-product of industrial capitalism as a quirk of human physiology.
The tax was put into place not so much as a revenue raiser but as a proper sin tax.
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And they are doing so not so much as a favor to the people, but mainly at the behest of financial markets.
Into this plain-vanilla trust, Raymond and Arline gifted the bulk of their assets not so much as to render them technically insolvent, but a goodly amount.
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To me, Sheen came across not so much as the typical celebrity having a meltdown moment a la Britney Spears or Mel Gibson, but as someone severely disturbed.
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"I come to them not so much as president as I do as a father and as a husband, " Mr. Obama told reporters after his visits with survivors of the rampage and families whose loved ones were killed.
Little Mr. Debord, with not so much as a single overpriced defense lawyer, ducked all that Wells Fargo tossed his way, flung his puny stone smack dab between their eyes, and stepped back as the giant tumbled down.
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To promote safe lending in the long term, some risk must be left with depositors, and far more (it is to be hoped) with owners, but not so much as to make the system vulnerable to short-term instability.
In a general sense, vocal cord paralysis can be more difficult to treat since the main focus is to make the folds further apart to improve the airway, but not so much as to affect the quality of the voice.
So, we kinda think about it not so much as, again, for the DS. When we originally launched the PlayStation, there was a lot of heavy lifting that had to go into establishing that marketplace, so it was coming from zero, and needed to establish that credibility.
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His memory survives not so much on reality as on possibility, not so much on what he would have done, but on what we once believed.
Yet if, in 1980, someone had predicted that by 2012 New York City would have a crime rate so low that violent crime would have largely disappeared as a subject of conversation, he would have seemed not so much hopeful as crazy.
As the deposed pirate captain Jack Sparrow, Johnny Depp does not so much walk as sashay into a scene, and he wears more eyeshadow than Tammy Faye Bakker.
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And some of the science is dubious (though not nearly so much as, say, Prometheus).
Last night, however, I spotted a mis-tagging that was not so much juvenile as downright offensive.
Trickier etiquette problems arise when the issue is not so much noise as context.
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But Mr Gilmer argues that the cities are not so much rivals as partners.
The great masses of distributors are not so much vendors as they are customers.
But what is threatened by uncontrolled vehicle usage is not prosperity so much as lifestyle.
It turned out that the city had been not so much ungovernable as ungoverned.
Some of his buildings appear to be not so much constructed as randomly stuck together.
But when it comes to homosexuality, many Italians become not so much intolerant as uneasy.
Their further expansion plans have been eye-popping, but have not brought so much as a murmur from regulators.
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These warnings were not so much threats as statements of hard political fact.
The man behind the pledge says he's not so much embattled as bored.
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The problem with most off-the-rack boots is not so much fit as quality.
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