Sentence examples for but rather do from inspiring English sources

"Now he realizes he can't just say, 'Do it,' but rather, 'Do it because....' He's doing a better job communicating".

(Do not combine them but rather do it in separate batches, as the nuts take different times to become golden and fragrant).

A disturbing insight into the life of Andrew Morgan: The key question isn't "Can I be arsed to go to the shops?" but rather "Do I want to get anything done today?".

In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus teaches that "when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets" but rather "do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret".

The prime minister will not get a substantive renegotiation of the UK's terms of membership before 2017, so the referendum question will not be about his supposed diplomatic triumph but rather: "Do you want to stay in the present EU, with all its deficiencies and problems?" The referendum will cause grave financial and economic instability and make the UK a laughing stock across the globe.

Our principle should not be "Never negotiate with terrorists" but rather "Don't reward terrorism".

He kept mentioning this even after his mother told The Daily News that she never worked in a factory but, rather, did piecework at home.

He said he has never used a pen and ink, but rather does his drawings with a computer mouse on a Macintosh desktop.

In the practice of normal science, the failure to solve a puzzle does not reflect badly on the paradigm but rather does so on the skill of the researcher.

In return for that effort, what I want to know is not whether, like a focus group, my readers approve but rather: "Does this action or attitude seem plausible to you?

Thus, we support an approach that does not rely on controlability of individual nodes but rather does a processor-wide adaptation of power settings.Dynamic vs. static scheduling.