Sentence examples for but rather the ability from inspiring English sources

Seen this way, the disorder does not impair someone's ability to pay attention across the board but rather the ability to keep paying attention despite a lack of interest or frustration.

Unlike traditional copyright law, the 1998 statute does not govern copying, but rather the ability to make or provide a way to gain access to encrypted material, which it would then be possible to copy.

Rep. John Garamendi (D-Calif ., who represents Northern California, saiD-Calif .best of his understanding, ships arriving are not the problem, but rather the ability to transport whot they'representsg.

The major threat to American democracy at the moment is not tyranny of the majority but, rather, the ability of a minority cohort to defeat the policy preferences of the majority.

The wider recognition of thought "left of liberalism" – of which the journal I edit, Jacobin, is a part – isn't just the result of the loss of faith in mainstream alternatives, but rather, the ability of radicals to ask deeper structural questions and place new developments in historical context.

As Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, the governor of Jakarta, told reporters last week, the problem in Indonesia may not be political dynasties in and of themselves, but rather the ability of the particular dynasties that currently dominate the country to govern fairly and effectively.

Ivy League credentials aside, what matters in the end to most voters, when it comes to choosing a president, is not academic pedigree, but rather the candidates' ability to make an emotional connection and to win trust and confidence.

This lack of a verification procedure has led some critics of the BWC to argue that the best deterrent to being attacked with biological weapons is not a treaty at all but rather the recognized ability to retaliate in equal or greater measure.

Therefore, the deficit may not be in perceiving the beat during initial presentations of the rhythm but rather in the ability to internally generate the model of the rhythm during the discrimination phase of the task.

According to research fellow Ian Beuermann, the saga is useful not for the specific events it describes, but rather for the ability to learn of "the ideas shaping the texts during the periods of composition or revision".

The abundance of transferrin transcripts in Nodavirus-infected tissues may not be related to the alteration of the iron metabolism by the pathogen but rather to the ability of enzymatically cleaved forms of this protein to activate fish macrophages [ 30].