Sentence examples for concept but rather from inspiring English sources

Their objections apparently lie not with the morality of the concept, but rather the accuracy of the technology involved.

Contrary to the assemblywoman's implication, this is neither a novel, nor a "phony," legal concept, but rather is predicated upon five decades of legal precedent.

But the court's majority made a point today of citing its prior rulings holding that the definition of cruel and unusual punishment was "not a static concept," but rather a reflection of "evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society".

Diversity is not a numerical concept, but rather one of inclusion that embodies more than differences in race or gender.

Hopefully the Asus EEE Pad / Slate isn't just a working concept but rather a model on the quick path to production and retail.

To be to the point, the researchers referred to scholars such as Nunan (1997) who argues that autonomy is not an absolute concept but rather can exist in different degrees, that is the reason why the qualitative question involved the wording as a fair degree of autonomy.

Resulting glossaries are thus only marginally concerned with concepts and concept structures but rather with single terms.

However, archaeologists do not dig up either of these social concepts but rather the material residues of houses and households.

In the transcendental argument of the Refutation of Idealism, Kant's target is not Humean skepticism about the applicability of a priori concepts, but rather Cartesian skepticism about the external world.

This indicates that the reason of unreliable predictions for chronic Daphnia and fish toxicity is not a per se non-predictability of chronic effects by mixture toxicity concepts but rather due to the violation of the fixed-effect level assumption of the CA concept by using NOEC values.

Under most natural circumstances, overland flow does not occur in the form of unconcentrated sheet flow as described by traditional concepts, but rather as unsteady non-uniform concentrated flow in small rivulets (Dunne, 1978; Beven et al., 2000; Wagener et al., 2004) or, in the case of runoff on agricultural land, as interrill flow (Morgan, 1980).