Sentence examples for but rather a cause from inspiring English sources

Thus, our will is not a self-initiating principle, but rather a cause moved by a series of superior causes (of which we are at least partly unaware).

I hope that folks who have children will see that this should not be a political issue, but rather a cause for concern that they will do their best to learn about.

In the latter case, the observed behaviour would not be a consequence, but rather a cause, of parasitism.

p38 MAPK activation varied greatly between the two strains soon after CS exposure, indicating that the inter-strain difference was not a consequence, but rather a cause, of the disease (Additional file 1: Figure S2A).

It could be argued that our case did not represent an anomaly of the appendix, but rather a fistula caused by an appendiceal neoplasm.

However, the type of causality the senses were viewed as exercising was deemed to be purely "excitatory" or "inclinatory" (Quodl. I, q. 12, p. 175, 613 16), making the senses not the principal but rather an instrumental cause of intellection.

I decided this was not a carcinoma at all but rather a genital wart caused by the human papilloma virus (H.P.V).

A possible explanation could be that cells in the M1 fraction are EGFP positive not because of a failure during replication but rather a transcriptional error caused by RNA polymerase.

Since the argument proceeds independent of temporal considerations, the argument does not propose a first cause in time, but rather a first or primary sustaining cause of the universe.

Based on our survey, it seems likely that burnout is not a cause but rather a consequence of reproductive morbidity.

Therefore, mitochondrial dysfunction does not represent a cause but rather a consequence of the obese insulin-resistant and/or type 2 diabetic state [ 31, 32].