Sentence examples for but rather trying from inspiring English sources

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".

A spokesman, Simon Gordon, said the company was not trying to block the sale of the device but rather trying to level the playing field in Germany.

Perhaps a better approach for future Nicolas Flamels — or Ray Kurzweils or Dmitry Itskovs — is not copying our brains but, rather, trying to migrate the self to a new physical host.

The rescuers were not searching for someone stranded, but rather trying to retrieve a roster of residents from the association's offices so it could start learning who planned to move back.

Within days, Ms. Leroy, who lives with her 14-year-old daughter, was no longer laughing, but rather trying to unravel the events that led to the auction of her house last fall by Rockland County.

"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.

." That is, the book does not make value judgments or critical suggestions about how states should deal with the potential votes of non-nationals, but rather tries to identify and examine the actual evolution of the existing laws.

Professors who have studied plagiarism do not try to excuse it -- many are champions of academic honesty on their campuses -- but rather try to understand why it is so widespread.