Sentence examples for electric rather than from inspiring English sources

He has altered Mr. Piazzolla's lineup, pushing it closer to a jazz quintet by using electric rather than acoustic guitar and drums instead of a violin.

The art world has its own version of the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, where Bob Dylan shocked audiences by performing on an electric rather than an acoustic guitar.

The company has invested $20bn developing the plane, which makes use of electric rather than hydraulic systems, and carbon fiber panels to save weight and fuel.

Its use of electric rather than hydraulic systems is one of the innovations, along with more efficient engines and a lightweight carbon-composite structure, enabling the plane to save on fuel.

Airbus's A320, whose program was launched in 1984, was designed as a narrow-body, short- to medium-range aircraft that incorporated numerous technical innovations, most notably fly-by-wire (electric rather than mechanically linked), computer-based flight controls.

In the meantime, the paintings of Chris Ofili, which won the Turner Prize in 1998 and are funny rather than ponderously angry, and aesthetically electric rather than numb, are not illustrated.

In this letter, we show that this framework still suffers from inaccuracies, particularly at high permittivity ratios and propose a simple solution that involves reconstruction of electric displacement rather than the electric field.

Another suggestion for filling in the shortest irregularities in supply, those lasting a few seconds or minutes such as are caused by the passage of a cloud in front of the sun is to use supercapacitors, which store electricity as an actual electric charge, rather than converting it into chemical or physical potential energy of a non-electric form.

In our study the use of electric samovars, rather than kettles and non- electric samovars, reduced the risk of burn injuries.

While Renault-Nissan has led the way with its €27,000 Leaf, already on the market, with the cheaper Zoe to follow soon, BMW is one of the manufacturers that have decided to design an electric car from scratch, building it around new electric components rather than converting existing conventional cars.

The Dreamliner uses twice as much electrical power as comparable jets, because it employs electric motors rather than compressed air from jet engines for systems such as cabin air conditioning and pressurisation.