Sentence examples for but rather maintained from inspiring English sources

Many maroons who left the swamp to fight did not become regulars in the Union Army, but rather maintained their status as guerillas in the region.

The catalyst did not undergo continuous deactivation during the catalytic oxidation, but rather maintained a high activity even after several days of continuous operation.

Brown accuses Fayyad of not adding or naming a single new institution built under his government but rather maintained the institutions he inherited from Arafat and improved some of them.

Bim-deficient self-reactive thymocytes did not differentiate to the CD8 SP stage, but rather maintained the CD4loCD8lo phenotype.

"With almost daily revelations of Tory sleaze along with a significantly watered down consultation paper on lobbying it is clear this Government is unwilling to make bold decisions in the national interest but rather maintain the influence of a small circle of elites".

A few continental margins such as those off the Mediterranean coast of France and at Porcupine Bank, off the western coast of Ireland do not have a sharply defined break in slope but rather maintain a generally convex shape to the seafloor.

What matters is not so much defending or restoring individual species, but rather maintaining clusters of species making up landscape, forest or river systems.

The space of the theater and its surroundings doesn't make logical sense, but rather, maintains a constant spatial shift.

Further, the COLA does not increase benefits, but rather maintains their purchasing power, preventing them from eroding due to inflation.

Surgical intervention should therefore not be aimed at increasing survival but rather maintain quality of remaining life.

Furthermore, in Greece one can move into a new place of residence without registering into the new municipality, but rather maintaining his/her initial municipality record.