Sentence examples for but rather effective from inspiring English sources

Instead our 30th birthdays turned out to be inexpensive but rather effective life coaches.

However, French physicians may overestimate the extent to which patient satisfaction depends only on receiving an antibiotic prescription; therefore practitioners should be convinced that the primary determinant of patient satisfaction is not prescribing antibiotics but rather, effective communication about the patient's illness (39).

The extended time to remedication for rofecoxib 50 mg may represent a real clinical advantage where the problem is not a lack of effective analgesics, but rather effective analgesics ineffectively delivered [ 35], and given that using a relatively large dose has no disadvantages.

The stunt demonstrated that the graffiti drone, which KATSU unveiled in an interview last year, not only works, but is rather effective.

In the present study limited effects on step time variability may suggest that our exercise program is not effective for improving specific cognition-related gait characteristics but is rather effective for improving gait characteristics associated with strength/functional performances (i.e. gait speed, step length, cadence, etc).

I have grumbled rather about the way in which Bobby has been written to date, but I thought this episode rather effective in showing the real horror of being forced to stifle your sexuality for the sake of your job and social standing, while opponents try to capitalise on your perceived weakness.

It no longer stands for sovereign statehood, but rather for effective devolution of power.

The success of their social media campaigns was not about the number of followers they garnered, but rather how effective their campaigns were at engaging their targeted audience.

Gods, for example, were not merely "personifications" of natural phenomena but rather the effective potencies of the phenomena themselves conceived from the start as personal beings.

Mr. Halladay, one of the founders of Utah Rising, a coalition of Tea Party supporters and other conservatives, said he did not think that Thursday's caucuses were a referendum on the Tea Party movement or a measure of its strength, but rather how effective Mr. Hatch was in marshaling his forces.

Stankovich et al. [27] reported that functionalized graphene nanoplates treated with isocyanate show an AHD of 560 ± 60 nm, which is not their average dimension but rather the effective hydrodynamic diameter of an equivalent sphere described by the tumbling of the platelets.