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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a future rather than" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing two options or preferences, emphasizing the choice of one over the other.
Example: "We should focus on building a future rather than dwelling on past mistakes."
Alternatives: "a future instead of" or "a future in place of".
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Inflation looms as a future rather than a present threat.In less formal situations, however, he makes no such distinction.
Let's not get overexcited - it's no masterpiece - but this is the first Oasis album in a decade to suggest that they have a future rather than just a huge, asphyxiating past.
The smaller the population becomes, the harder it becomes for the government to provide the schooling, the hospital and the other things which the community needs for it to be a place with a future, rather than just a work camp.
"While these reviews are responding to the departure of Holden and Ford, we have a window of opportunity to devise a national strategic response that's based on building a future rather than a piecemeal, subsidy approach to patch the past," he said.
I don't agree and wonder how much longer we'll be discussing football as having a future rather than a past.
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The different GC content of L. delbrueckii thus seems to reflect a recent development, and indicate a different future rather than a different history.
Now Clinton needs to demonstrate that, at the age of sixty-seven, after more than twenty years in the public spotlight, she represents a brighter future rather than a fractious past.
Monkey doffs its cap to FT gagsmith Ben Fenton for this impeccable payoff: "He is now unique as only top BBC bod with a chequered future rather than a [chequered] past".
This election may well be won on the idea that the history of the American people is not so easily distinguished from global history, and that American identity is fixed in a shared future rather than a shared past.
Now Clinton needs to demonstrate that, at the age of sixty-seven, after more than twenty years in the public spotlight, she represents a brighter future rather than a fractious past.
What matters is that he took a step toward a preferred future rather than sit back and complain or place blame.
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