Sentence examples for encountered rather than from inspiring English sources

For our intellect, the greenness of the cup is something that is merely encountered, rather than consciously constructed, and thus it fails to express any internal connection between the subject and its predicate.

During a canvassing session last week, before violence erupted in Tahrir Square, a candidate repeatedly found himself being forced to explain the voting mechanisms and locations to the potential voters he encountered, rather than talk about his policy positions.

Further, object-focused processing in the US participants was related to a greater sensitivity to whether the central object in the picture was repeated or novel, emphasizing the importance of attributes associated with each object encountered rather than the different contexts of occurrence.

We aim to understand the online data protection-related issues that instructors or instructional designers encounter rather than reiterating that users must be aware of the informative and persistent characteristics of online data.

Alternatively, because the largely solitary males can breed for a short window of time only once in their lives, they may drop their spermatophores onto every squid they encounter rather than risk missing an opportunity to breed.

We must view education from the standpoint of what they will encounter, rather than the status quo.

We short change all generations if we settle for once a year encounters rather than ongoing exchange and engagement.

This nephelometric device responds to the optical properties of the particles it encounters rather than the true particle gravimetric properties.

She countered this by saying I could be "falling into a series of casual encounters" rather than actively pursuing the kind of woman I would like to date.

Second, the effect of the place on the participants, producing at best a continuous sense of encounter rather than a mere succession of author-events.

Bruno's education is conducted slowly, through a series of fleeting social encounters rather than by plunging him into a nightmare landscape.