Sentence examples for as opposed to causing from inspiring English sources

In some instances monkeywrenching does approach terrorism, as opposed to causing merely nuisance or economic harm.

Jill Lepore, in her article on the impact that communications technologies have on political parties, views the party system as one that can foster civic engagement and democratic governance, as opposed to causing an "atomizing of the electorate," which is often the case in our current media-saturated environment ("The Party Crashers," February 22nd).

Fifth, our agency is said not to be involved in mere accelerations of evils about to happen anyway, as opposed to causing such evils by doing acts necessary for such evils to occur (G. Williams 1961; Brody 1996).

Whether the MB neurons themselves are oscillating (as opposed to causing oscillations downstream) is an open question.

In addition, there is a clear difference between exploring contaminants as potential contributors to ADHD risk as opposed to causing ADHD.

Although he grows old, he remains a witness rather than actor and more often reacts to, as opposed to causes, events throughout the novel.

Thus far, the majority of these alterations have been considered consequences as opposed to causes in the lung cancer development.

In this study, all of the latent variables, including population size, age profile, service accessibility, educational profile, and service utilization, are modeled as reflective constructs (i.e., constructs viewed as causing, as opposed to being caused by, the observed variables) [ 35].

Demography seems to be the leading candidate; other "structural" reasons that are widely cited, while they do amount to an impressive litany of sins, do not necessarily explain why demand should be inadequate, as opposed to simply causing garden-variety microeconomic inefficiency.

They said it confirmed that they were managing forests carefully and showed that environmentalists had exaggerated problems caused by the industry as opposed to those caused by sprawl.

These differences seem to have environmental (as opposed to genetic) causes, as migrants from low-risk countries to Canada and Australia tend to acquire higher rates of risk.