Sentence examples for but rather preferred from inspiring English sources

Learners hesitated to submit their answers as soon as the questions appeared but rather preferred to skip the question and continue viewing for a very short period by advancing to the next section.

From a careful observation of the state sequences it was obvious that the backward jumps occurred mainly due to 3 reasons: (a) Learners hesitated to submit their answers as soon as the questions appeared but rather preferred to skip the question and continue viewing for a very short period by advancing to the next section.

I did not really want to play, but rather preferred to discuss, and read.

Sheldon stated that he did not want to create entirely new protagonists for the Christie games, but rather preferred to draw from sources in Christie's novels to piece together the games' protagonists.

She refused radiotherapy and palliative chemotherapy but rather preferred alternative treatment with oral high-dose vitamin C. Acute renal failure (ARF) was diagnosed (creatinine 166 versus 48 µmol/L 2 months before) and urinalysis revealed abundant calcium oxalate.

The first part of the survey investigated the motives of refugees from the former Yugoslavia who did not want to return home but rather preferred to remain in the receiving country which in this case was Germany [ 55].

This was not a violation of protocol but rather the preferred approach, according to Travis T. Tygart, the chief executive of the United States Anti-Doping Agency.

She has always spurned the idea of wifehood - yet realises that's exactly what she finds herself in with Barry, with whom she's been for decades - and she has always rather preferred black lovers to white.

I don't like his methods of teaching and rather preferred to study on my own terms than be in his class.

Unlike private for-profit schemes, this is not really 'adverse' selection but rather 'preferred' selection in the context of CBHI.

Despite the high error frequencies induced by mutagen, mutations did not accumulate at random along the viral genome, but rather they accumulated at preferred genomic regions.