Sentence examples for be acquired rather than from inspiring English sources

This is the kind of company that is likely to be acquired rather than go public, in my opinion.

Hunger as both a compulsion and as a thing to be acquired, rather than fed.

In many Asian societies learning is closely tied to hard work, undertaken for a utilitarian purpose where information and knowledge are to be acquired, rather than evaluated [ 14].

For the most part, Aquinas and most later medievals aim to explain the processes by which knowledge is acquired, rather than aiming to justify knowledge.

A notable difference between the predictions produced through the sediment query (see the 'Sediment query form' section) and the archeo/volcanic query forms is that, with the exception of the 'Country/State/Region/Sea' geographic constraint, the coordinates used are those from which the data were acquired, rather than the center of a geographical area.

However, the growth in size of storage media and developments such as cloud computing have led to more use of 'live' acquisitions whereby a 'logical' copy of the data is acquired rather than a complete image of the physical storage device.

More importantly, he believed same-sex desire in ancient Greece to have been acquired rather than congenital.

This further supports the notion that these genomic islands were acquired rather than being part of the P. putida core genome.

Moreover, Symonds's conceptualisation of the Platonic Eros in terms of class difference continued to point to the fact that same-sex desire was acquired rather than congenital.

We have shown that changes within the SN, and in particular cell loss within this brain region, is more closely associated with mitochondrial defects that are acquired rather than those that are inherited (Reeve et al., 2013).

We also recommend that strains uploaded to GenBank be accompanied, at least, by information about time (date of diagnosis or disease onset rather than by date of submission) and space (country where infection most likely was acquired rather than country from which infection was reported).