Sentence examples for but rather to maintain from inspiring English sources

"The goal of Lolita is not to create a sexy image but rather to maintain a cute or elegant appeal," said one of the members of the Monterrey Lolita Paradise Club to The Daily Mail.

Comey responded that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was not asking to expand the government's surveillance authority, but rather to maintain its ability to obtain electronic information under legal authorities that Congress has already provided.

The U.S. global military presence around the world (in more than 150 countries), according to Karl, is not there for defense, but rather to maintain the United States "at the top". We no longer pay for the wars we fight, Karl said.

Therefore, in quiescent cells in which polarity is established by polarity landmarks, F-actin containing structures are not required for polarized growth initiation, but rather to maintain long term polarized bud growth.

The role of epigenetic regulators such as PRCs is not to establish but rather to maintain cell identity by providing stability to transcriptional programs.

However, it is increasingly clear that IgA was selected and maintained throughout the evolution not just to stop pathogen entry through the epithelium but rather to maintain the complex interplay between commensals, epithelium and immune system.

Although the beneficial effects of ADSC transplantation were already significant after 3 weeks, these effects appeared not to progress, but rather to be maintained along with time.

Thus any difference in performance between the tasks would not be due to the requirement for attending to several different locations over time, but rather to the need to maintain attention towards spatial rather than non-spatial attributes of the stimuli.

The hydraulic system included stone canals, which were not used for irrigation but rather to channel runoff and maintain the structural integrity of the principal architecture.

Thus, critically the function of the negative feedback loop is not to generate behavior but rather to set up and maintain conditions in which the perceptual input matches the reference value, that is, to control its perception of the environment, and, thereby minimise discrepancy.

The information should not lead consumers to believe that there is exact quantitative knowledge of what individuals should eat in order to maintain health, but rather to convey an understanding of the quantity of nutrients contained in the product.