Sentence examples for but rather said from inspiring English sources

5The expert did not praise the wine for its "jamminess," as originally reported, but, rather, said that it was "jammy".

The board of Adelphia did not commit itself to a sale of the company, but rather said it would consider a sale as one option.

Prosecutors did not charge the defendants with financing terrorists directly, but rather said they helped the radical Islamic group Hamas by supporting charities controlled by it.

^5^The expert did not praise the wine for its "jamminess," as originally reported, but, rather, said that it was "jammy".

But when the newspaper asked him about the exclusion of remarried divorcees from the Catholic Church he did not directly disagree with the practice, but rather said that it is "not a sanction".

When I brought horribly failed brownies that no one ate to her family Thanksgiving, she didn't try to placate me, but, rather, said, "I feel that these brownies are destined for a moment in the second season of your show".

"It wasn't a negative, but rather saying that she's a dream, somebody who is collaborative and can talk intelligently about the story," Mr. Horowitz said.

To diffuse a situation like this - relax totally in your chair when they stand over you, in fact getting lower – not in submission, but rather saying you are totally unfazed by the confrontation.

"The judge's ruling doesn't force any state to do anything," said Evan Wolfson, executive director of Freedom to Marry, a group based in New York, "but rather says that the federal government should not infringe on Massachusetts's right to regulate marriage".

Postulation is viewed as the sort of process by which one may come to know for certain the truth of a certain proposition, and yet the Bhattas refused to include such cases under inference on the grounds that in such cases one does not say to himself "I am inferring" but rather says "I am postulating".

This is not because the rich are gullible shoppers but rather, say the authors, because they tend to buy goods of better quality (such as organic milk), the prices of which are higher and tend to rise more quickly.These differences matter when considering inequality.