The phrase "activities rather than a" is not complete and lacks context, making it difficult to assess its correctness in written English.
It could be used in a comparison where you want to emphasize the preference for activities over something else, but it needs to be part of a complete sentence.
Example: "I prefer engaging in outdoor activities rather than a sedentary lifestyle."
Alternatives: "activities instead of" or "activities as opposed to".
There are many advantages to casting working life as a portfolio of activities, rather than a single, all-important bet.
The fear is that faculty opposition to moving will leave Allston home to a hodgepodge of overflow activities rather than a coherent new campus.
Because so many applicants have carbon-copy high grade point averages and MCAT scores, committee members have the luxury of looking for a history of service activities, rather than a single experience, and for work that is substantive -- say, a clinic, nursing home, rescue squad or hospice.
It is difficult to quantify the exact abatement in Russia expertise since the end of the Cold War, as the knowledge of individuals occupying certain key positions varies and line-items in the budget often apply to a broader range of activities rather than a single country.
He thus highlights their specific contribution to and support of production differentiation of the countryside and sees the consolidation of the rural economy as having a plurality of economic activities rather than a predominance of agriculture.
While SynBio can be seen as a collection of activities rather than a distinct, singular, or totally novel practice, some of its proponents claim that such activities stand to revolutionize our mode of industrial production through the assemblage of multipurpose micro-organisms, based on sub-cellular standardized biochemical parts that may or may not exist in nature (Carlson [2007]; Singh [2011]).
It has, however, the appearance of being a number of disconnected local activities rather than an overture to a grand operation.
A key strength of this study was using a momentary analysis of activities rather than an individual-level analysis as is common in epidemiology research.
Secrecy has surrounded their use, as the US cyber arsenal has seen operation as part of covert intelligence activities, rather than as a component of an ongoing war.
Tom Greatrex, shadow energy minister, said: "These documents demonstrate that Cameron sees regulation as an inhibitor of activity rather than a safeguard.
