Sentence examples for but to elucidate from inspiring English sources

To the evangelical experts profiled in this book, the chief purpose of science or historical research is not to expand human understanding, but to elucidate God's will.

I engage in this definitional debate not to split hairs, but to elucidate some silences in the redistribution/recognition trade-off that need to be addressed moving forward.

The dominant curiosity of the scientific community therefore does not seem to be the identification of people with paedophilia, but to elucidate the brain mechanism underlying the disorder.

Third, Tuomela does not view we-intentions and other elements of his account as independent building blocks but only as analytically isolated parts of a complex whole (cf. Tuomela 2007: 125 6); once again, the guiding idea is not to track the composition of collectivity from basic and independent elements, but to elucidate what collectivity consists in.

Importantly, this retrospective study was not designed to determine how to select CET intensity and homogenize exercise duration, but to elucidate potential factors responsible for the high variability in endurance time.

The good agreement is remarkable also when considering that the experiments used as reference were not designed for a quantitative analysis of the photosynthetic apparatus but to elucidate the role of a specific protein, PufX.

Lymphoscintigraphic planar imaging is a common procedure for sentinel lymph node imaging prior to lymph node biopsy, but fails to elucidate the specific lymphatic drainage.

For example, he explained that stories about Muhammad's childhood are not meant to relate to historical events, but rather "to elucidate the mystery of the prophetic experience".

But the fragmentary forms and skittering attention of her poems suggest that 21st-century activist poetry may face some novel challenges, since it is obliged not only to bear witness to obvious evils but also to elucidate more subtle, tangled and disguised patterns of injustice.

Determining the structures of these states is important not only in order to understand the molecular mechanisms leading to the formation of native states but also to elucidate the initial events by which proteins misfold and aggregate.

A reliable identification of interfacial residues is vital not only to infer the function of individual proteins and their assembly into biological complexes, but also to elucidate the molecular and physicochemical basis of interactions between proteins.