Sentence examples for action rather than a from inspiring English sources

It's an action rather than a set of beliefs.

That could be the result of a one-off action rather than a recurring trend.

The McConnell rule makes the calendar the trigger for legislative action, rather than a dollar figure.

"Ethnic cleansing was the purpose of military action" rather than a consequence of war, he said.

He was a man of action rather than a man of words.

The inauguration, they say, is a celebration of democracy in action rather than a victory party.

These states argue that human rights was just one chapter of the Beijing platform for action, rather than an overarching theme.

Many legal scholars consider the act unconstitutional, in particular because it purports to let the legislature overrule the executive's decision through the absence of action rather than an affirmative vote.

The bāru (the official prognosticator), who observed and interpreted the celestial omina, was thus in a position to advise his royal employer on the means of avoiding misfortunes; the omens provided a basis for intelligent action rather than an indication of an inexorable fate.

In the Old Testament, Sullivan argues, lying is an action rather than an inner state, a pragmatic tool often ignored by Yahweh, and sometimes even rewarded -- as when Jacob hairies himself up in order to trick his father into bestowing Esau's blessing.

Engraftment of MSCs was surprisingly low in all of these studies, indicating a mainly paracrine action rather than an integration and differentiation into lung cells.