Sentence examples for but rather tries from inspiring English sources

In the book, Ms. Lerner, now a literary agent but previously a publishing house editor, doesn't preach on how to write a book but rather tries to help writers and would-be authors cope with such problems as being "alone with it".

Their study does not attempt to develop service quality measures, but rather tries to show how such measures can be incorporated into a model that can provide guideline towards service quality improvement.

Civic nationalism does not have ethnicity as its prime determinant but rather tries to subdue the ethnic identities and cultivate allegiance to the "country" instead.

The AIC does not assume a true model, but rather tries to identify the optimal model.

Rbrothers does not attempt to characterize the details of recombination events, but rather tries to determine the most likely number of events.

This new algorithm does not rely on the choice of a threshold for the statistical parameters used in detecting differential expression, but rather tries to gain power from the gene list in one experiment to inform gene selection in a different experiment.

"We are not saying, 'Go away,' but rather, 'Try to behave sensibly,' " he said in a phone interview.

In an e-mail Ms. Truax said that she rarely cut entire families but rather tried to compress their stories.

The new Egypt, the Egypt of the January 25th revolution, is a democratic Egypt: the ruler will be neither deified nor executed, but rather tried in a just manner.

In the concerts, Jingle Punks isn't championing certain material but rather trying to illustrate that, depending on the setting, even familiar music can surprise and amuse.

"Never believing that one's language is an X-ray of a character's soul, but rather trying to show the manipulative potential of language".