Sentence examples for but rather returned from inspiring English sources

However, Murrumu never actually left the continent, but rather returned to the ancestral lands of the Yidindji tribal nation, which is situated in northern Queensland, covering the region surrounding and including Cairns.

"The options today aren't between endorsing the report or objecting to it," he said, "but rather returning to the negotiation table or allowing the guns and bombs to determine our fate".

Mr. Carter added that the Democrats were not seeking to end the use of pre-emption, but rather "return it to where it's been in history as an act of last resort.

We shall not consider this problem further here, but rather return to it in section 3.3 below; and, as we shall see, it may be that certain ideas developed by resourcist philosophers can help us in getting a handle on the problem.

Yet realistically, the odds that a man, who enjoys the fanfare that even Egypt's most popular actors and pop stars could dream of, will not heed this call but rather return to obscurity, are extremely unlikely.

Treatment need not target the reversal of a molecular event but rather return a network affected by a combination of molecular culprits (for example, resulting from single-nucleotide polymorphisms) to its normal state.

If we continue down the current path, the Unwort des Jahres 2012 will not be "national interest" but rather "return of nationalism".

Soon after he closed the broadcast, telling viewers, "And that's part of our world," Rather returned to his office.

Rather returned to his office at around nine-fifteen, and an hour later was back in the fishbowl.

Or rather returned to it.

Or rather, return calls only to people you want to talk to.