Sentence examples for contends rather than from inspiring English sources

Noting the agency slaves possessed over their lives, he contends, "Rather than identifying with and submitting totally to his master, the slave held onto many remnants of his African culture, gained a sense of worth in the quarters, spent most of his time free from surveillance by whites, controlled important aspects of his life, and did some personally meaningful things on his own volition".

A transparent, collaborative approach to climate change, such as Rebuild by Design's, is vital to produce optimal solutions, Ovink contends, rather than conventional negotiations in which the focus is on what each group can get for itself, rather than what all can accomplish together.

Ms. Medina contends that rather than a tool of technocratic centralization, Cybersyn was democratic in design and intent.

Hershey contends that rather than cannibalizing sales of, for example, York patties, York Pieces will entice consumers who eat the traditional form in a private setting to share a bag of Pieces in a social setting.

"Second Coming," a 10,000-word essay, contends that rather than remaining a world that Microsoft or any company might dominate, computing is actually shifting to a world in which data and computer processing will be increasingly spread across thousands, if not millions, of interconnected computers.

Dr Oram contends that rather than a show of aggression, the German policy demonstrates just how much they were feeling the pinch themselves.

Strawson contends that rather than appealing to a series of extra-semantic conventions to account for the possibility of speech acts, we explain that possibility in terms of our ability to discern one another's communicative intentions.

The suit contends than rather than let the situation cool down, Alaniz and then other arriving officers took aggressive steps, eventually firing a Taser.

He also contends that rather than mysteriously appearing in the photo, the rock was present in a "before" photo released by NASA.

Besides, by grouping nodes into clusters, the collision probability of the CB-CSMA/CA depends on the number of contending clusters rather than the total number of contending stations.

And contend that rather than brushing scrums altogether, why not make them contests again?