Sentence examples for but rather was from inspiring English sources

It didn't evolve from predecessors but rather was spontaneous in its time and place.

The review wasn't posted online, but, rather, was "posted" on a traffic-light control box.

Turnbull said the economy was not like a cake of fixed size but rather was dynamic.

Generally, however, the king was not identified with a specific god but rather was regarded as himself a god.

Calcification was not directly related to respiration rates, but rather was associated with photosynthetic and carbon translocation rates.

Keenan argues that the text is not an authentic 12th-century document but rather was created by the Bohemian scholar Josef Dobrovský in the late 18th century.

In Wijk aan Zee, Kramnik did not blunder, but rather was outplayed by all three opponents in his losses.

It was not widely available but, rather, was privately published, with copies given to scientific institutions and friends.

The corn that was trampled was not genetically modified, they said, but rather was the result of natural plant breeding.

"This document did not come through official channels but rather was a creative exercise on the part of the Swiss ambassador," State Department spokesman Tom Casey said yesterday.

He insisted that he had not meant to profit from the arrangement, but rather was caught in a confusion over parliamentary rules on expenses.