Sentence examples for but rather the cause from inspiring English sources

Jesus, we learn, was laughing at the disciples' prayer because it was directed at their God, the Old Testament God, who is really no friend of mankind but, rather, the cause of its suffering.

If so, the observed differences in brain size between migratory and resident species would not be the consequence, but rather the cause of differences in migratory strategy [18].

Conditions external to the cell itself cannot guide development, but rather the causes lie within.

Eudemus praises Archytas for recognizing that the unequal and uneven are not identical with motion as Plato supposed (see Ti. 52e and 57e) but rather the causes of motion (A23).

Twinkling, of course, does not cause the stars to be far away, but rather the distance causes the twinkling.

But rather than the cause being damage to the well, he said, it could be that the reservoir of oil had been depleted by the gusher.

484 Usener), and he explains, from his own Stoic point of view, that it is not the gravity of the cause, but rather the kind of soul it affects, that determines whether sparks grow into the flame of anger; Philodemus would agree, at least as regards uncontrollable rage.

It was not the cause but rather the consequence of victory.

Broekema et al 21 showed that asthmatic patients with an accelerated FEV1 decline had high sputum eosinophil levels, but the sputum was analysed at the end of follow-up, and we cannot therefore exclude that sputum eosinophilic inflammation is not the cause but rather the consequence of the accelerated FEV1 decline in this study.

In a kind of genetic hand-shaking manoeuvre that bacteria perform all the time, the resistance genes moved into some strains of E coli – not the food-borne, toxin-making form, but rather the common variety that causes urinary tract infections and other normally minor illnesses.

Based on these observations, we conclude that virus replication itself does not have a major impact on metabolism, but rather the onset of apoptosis causes this metabolic imbalance.