Sentence examples for but rather the description from inspiring English sources

How could anybody have a view of morality that says, what matters for an act to be moral is not the outcome that it produces, but rather the description under which the act is done?

Our proposal was not an entirely new form of radical hysterectomy but, rather, the description of individual nerve-sparing steps that could be incorporated into any particular type of radical hysterectomy.

Brown's comment was squarely at the center of the issue under examination, and the word was not slang or an expletive, but rather the anatomical description of a part of a woman's anatomy that the proposed legislation would directly affect.

The country to which this description now applies is not Iraq but Syria - or, rather, the description always applied to both of the states where the Ba'ath party's assumption of power turned out in practice to mean government by sect, clan, family, and a president for life.

It was noted that the more dominant factor in retrieval time was not the number of query terms, but rather the number of descriptions matched by the query terms.

However these disputes were not based on suspicions of heterogeneity, but rather on the descriptions and nomenclatural acts associated with the species name.

It is, rather, the description of a journey of many steps, each a specific technological change (see chart below).

I don't feel as if I'm reading descriptions of emotions, but rather, the emotions themselves.

But a novel wireless-network protocol developed for the U.S. military breaks with this tradition by sending not the data itself but rather a description of the data.

Since then "Moore's Law" — which is not a law of physics, but rather a description of the rate of industrial change — has come to personify an industry that lives on Internet time, where the Next Big Thing is always just around the corner.

None of these things are character judgments, but rather a description of how the business world operates to a middle-class/upper-class standard.