The phrase "associate rather than" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing two options or preferences, indicating a choice to associate with one over the other.
Example: "In this project, we should associate rather than isolate ourselves from the community."
Alternatives: "connect instead of" or "link rather than".
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.
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.
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.
Speaking face-to-face with my associates rather than just talking to them via conference calls or Web casts was fantastic.
From these stelae, epigrapher Tatiana Proskouriakoff was able to identify that they contained details of royal rulers and their associates, rather than priests and gods as had previously been theorised.
We depend on our diverse global workforce – whom we refer to as owner-associates rather than just employees – to deliver superior technology solutions to our clients, and we look to a diverse network of suppliers for our own goods and services.
