The phrase "associate rather" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to compare or contrast two ideas, but it lacks context to be effectively used.
Example: "I would associate rather with the idea of collaboration than competition."
Alternatives: "connect more with" or "identify more with".
Davies was always the loyal associate rather the symbolic figurehead of our two main national companies and never enjoyed a prominent public profile.
That will determine whether we are technically just in the EU as a de-facto associate member (associate rather than full because we are outside the euro), or whether we are technically just outside as a member of EFTA.
The primary recommendation of the Georgia Tech report is that the university turn itself into a venue for lifelong learning that allows students to "associate rather than enroll". Such a system would provide easy entry and exit points into the university and imagines a future in which students take courses either online or face-to-face, often in shorter spurts over the course of a lifetime.
While the data is far from statistical significance, the trend is in line with those findings that associate rather the M allele with hypertension in the present study.
Furthermore, this cavin coat may provide a possible mechanism for spatial and temporal regulation of caveola formation: caveolae form at the plasma membrane as caveolins and cavins associate, rather than earlier in the exocytic pathway (Hill et al., 2008; Hayer et al., 2010).
About two-thirds of GPs (62% of regional group GPs and 65% of community group GPs) noted that they were confident or very confident about their women being seen by a genetic nurse specialist or genetic associate rather than by a consultant geneticist.
"They should have more sales associates rather than handing out beepers to their customers".
While students at Teachers College may in unusual circumstances be offered teaching assignments, they are appointed as associates rather than as student officers of instruction.
Investigations of these later centromere pairs indicate that paired homologous centromeres are actively associated rather than positioned passively, side-by-side.
However, the Somoza family and their associates, rather than the Nicaraguan people as a whole, were the main beneficiaries of the country's income.
Organizational form and organizational operation (Tian 2004) are not necessarily associated; rather, they are often decoupled (Meyer and Rowan 1977).
