Sentence examples for conceive rather from inspiring English sources

Faced with a form of limited fertility, she and her husband decided to go ahead and try to conceive rather than waiting for her to establish her career.

It seems much more important to celebrate the hundreds of thousands of "older parents" who are blessed with healthy and wonderful children made possible precisely because a man can impregnate later in life than a woman can commonly conceive, rather than to bitterly and jealously wish somehow that 50-year-old men come to be viewed as "damaged goods".

He mingles them, sometimes freely, and makes a few puzzling choices — for instance, he uses the term "handmaid," derived from the King James, to describe the young woman whom Sarai offers up to sleep with her husband, Abram, after Sarai is unable to conceive, rather than Alter's term, "slave girl," which evokes the woman's subservient status.

Likewise, Quirky tried to manufacture the products its community conceived rather than find expert low cost producers.

Its handmaiden series Shakespeare in Perspective (BBC2), in which specialist non-specialists sound off about the week's play, is, though usefully conceived, rather iffy in practice.

Just being conceived, rather than as European cities needing to adapt (with considerable difficulty) to the cultural, political and technological transformations of the 17th through the 20th centuries, American cities heralded the arrival of the modern world.

In Categories generally he does not speak about how things are conceived; rather, he speaks about how things are called or how they are.

However, education in general is fleeing away from institutions and becoming ubiquitous education should be conceived rather as learning that can happen spontaneously anywhere, would be inner-motivated and based on open peer-to-peer approaches.

Hudson uses this distinction to argue that respect for persons is not a unique kind of respect but should be conceived rather as involving some combination or other of these four.

This allowed us to gain as wide an understanding as possible of how the volunteer role is conceived, rather than just one respondent group's view, and whether some universal understanding of the role exists.

The jokes are still funny, and some of the plans the girls conceive are rather ingenious (I know I could never think of them).