The phrase "agents rather than the" is not complete and lacks context, making it difficult to assess its correctness and usability in written English.
It could be used in a comparative context where you are distinguishing between agents and another subject, but the phrase needs to be part of a complete sentence for clarity.
Example: "We should focus on agents rather than the traditional methods of marketing."
Alternatives: "agents instead of the" or "agents as opposed to the".
But authors, playwrights and actors tend to be loyal to their agents, rather than the firms that employ them.
Meanwhile, Mr. Dutton and Ms. Goldberg carped in a recent issue of Time Out magazine about the sort of matters -- accommodations for supporting actors, the order of their own names in title billing -- that are usually confined to backstage conversations or negotiated through agents rather than the media.
The agents, rather than the companies, are responsible for checking visas and providing health insurance.
The results suggest that systematic ligand modification can modulate sulfur donor specificity and suggest possible structural features for design of platinum-based bifunctional DNA protein cross-linking agents, rather than the DNA DNA cross-linking principally adopted by the anticancer drug cisplatin and congeners.
It added 40,000 border agents, rather than the 21,000 agents in the original bill, and would require 700 miles of fencing and more funding for aerial drones and surveillance of the U.S.-Mexico border.
It is possible however, that the higher frequency of co-prescribing treatment for gastric reflux/peptic ulcer in the group with T2DM may reflect the use of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) as a gastroprotective agent in patients taking the OAH agents rather than the presence of gastrointestinal morbidity.
We ask that you allow our Therapeutic Agents, rather than those in the general population, to address your needs.
There is an increasing interest in involving children in research that has been influenced by the recognition of children's rights and by the reconceptualisation of children within the social sciences as active agents rather than as the objects of research.
The protection, though, does not cover all eventualities – and Santander seemed to be arguing that, because the agent, rather than the concert promoter, had gone bust, the bank wasn't liable – which is a debatable stance.
"The government agent supplied a design and gave it form, so that the agent rather than the defendant inspired the crime, provoked it, planned it, financed it, equipped it and furnished the time and targets," Judge Jacobs wrote, adding, "There simply was no evidence of predisposition under our settled definition of the term".
Sunderland's version of events is that there was only one player involved and it was said in jest, but Smith told the Guardian: "This is one of those circumstances where it was between the players and the agent, rather than the club".
