Sentence examples for complementary rather than contradictory from inspiring English sources

The answer may be that these effects are complementary, rather than contradictory.

But Mr Vickers explains that Smith's comments must be seen as complementary rather than contradictory.

But the work's point, driven home in long, pointed sequences in both acts, is his notion that religion and science should be regarded as complementary rather than contradictory.

The results indicate that the majority of rural youth keep a view of the countryside that is in accordance with the 'rural idyll'/'rural dull' concepts these two images of the rural being complementary rather than contradictory.

What Cage had in mind was a poetic perspective toward the music of the everyday — wind, traffic, sputtering bursts from a distant jackhammer — and a notion that simultaneous sounds, however disparate, could be complementary rather than contradictory.

The two dimensions mentioned above, delicacy and instantiation, provide complementary rather than contradictory approaches.

Although in retrospect it can be seen that the dimensions of openness framework and the IEHIA method are complementary rather than fundamentally contradictory, some practical difficulties in merging these views led into their development side by side rather than together within the project.

Although there are striking differences between the books, they are complimentary rather than contradictory.

The staff were complementary rather than competitive.

But complementary rather than contrasting tastes seem to work best.

Yang and yin are complementary rather than antagonistic.