Sentence examples for but rather to transform from inspiring English sources

"One may not want to eradicate a population, but rather to transform it genetically so that it is less noxious," he wrote in a 2003 paper, "Site-Specific Selfish Genes as Tools for the Control and Genetic Engineering of Natural Populations".

According to Rosenzweig, the task of the translator was not to transform the text being translated into a form that would be easily accessible to those reading it in its new language, but rather to transform the language into which the text was being translated through this very introduction of a foreign text into it.

They seek rather to transform the public agenda by creating political desires for a better future.

Man's idealized angle of repose in this natural world was accommodating, not challenging; his role was to fit into it rather than to transform it for his own purposes.

British Muslim scholar Abdal Hakim Murad points out that, 'Islam does not limit itself to the upliftment of any given section of humanity, but rather announces a desire to transform the entire human family.' Just as British attitudes must meet the Muslim community halfway, British Muslims must be willing to contribute to the cultural, social and political fabric of society.

As a nonprofit, it says, PLOS "is not primarily driven by short-term financial considerations, but rather by a mission to transform research communication".

"PLOS as a nonprofit is not primarily driven by short-term financial considerations, but rather by a mission to transform research communication.

Or, rather, he failed to transform.

Rather, it wanted to transform the hills sheep have stripped of all except a few pockets of woodland.

Rather than trying to transform the site, Sharps accepts what it has to offer – and it has turned out to be an Aladdin's cave.

Mrs. Clinton said the United States would present a pragmatic strategy built on defeating Al Qaeda rather than trying to transform Afghanistan into a Western-style democracy.