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McMaster tried to reassure the political appointees that the professional staffers weren't spies but, rather, a valuable source of institutional knowledge.

Such indefiniteness is, in Hartley's view, hardly a defect, but rather a valuable feature of language.

To ensure that the performance review is as effective as possible, it is vital for managers to acknowledge that the exercise is not just an unwieldy HR requirement, but rather a valuable tool to track productivity and measure employee satisfaction.

However, intelligent machines will play an increasing role in healthcare, not as a replacement, but rather as a valuable supplement.

Trash, by this turning of the semantic screw, is not something to be thrown out, but rather a powerful and valuable lens for analyzing what civilized society is supposed to do.

At first the camera was seen as a tool that could replace the artist's hand, but over time the camera's unique capacities its instantaneousness and ability to see more than the human eye (and with better focus)—clearly set a photograph apart from a painting and made photography not an adjunct study but rather a distinct medium valuable in and of itself.

Moreover, recent discussions of the value of knowledge have begun to explore the possibility that it is not knowledge which is the distinctively valuable epistemic standing, but rather a different epistemic standing altogether, such as understanding.

In the case of the RAG1 protein, a transposon was not a threat inspiring protective adaptation but rather an apparent source of a valuable mechanism (Kapitonov and Jurka 2005; Slotkin and Martienssen 2007).

(Today, the acquisition of wealth defines the ultimate definition of success, not as a "right" but, rather, the most valuable contribution to China's rise as an economic superpower).

This decline is especially marked as people move to cities, where extra children are a burden rather than a valuable source of farm labour.

It is a measure of their success that dropping points against the Premier League title favourites should be treated as a missed opportunity rather than a valuable scalp.