Sentence examples for existed rather than from inspiring English sources

In matters of doctrine, the Zohar and its appendices develop, amplify, and exaggerate speculation and tendencies that already existed rather than offer any radical innovation.

It does so in its marriage annulment process, where it alleges that marriages of long standing never existed rather than admit its error in not allowing divorce and remarriage.

There is none lower in fi than Merrill Garbus, but lo-fi is perfect for the music she makes, lending her perfectly formed miniatures a feeling of immediacy, as if they were melodies that had always existed, rather than ones she wrote and recorded.

In view of these small differences, we subsequently evaluated whether coordinated differences in genes belonging to a single biological pathway existed rather than differences in the expression levels of single genes.

What reason have you to care whether you yourself continue to exist, rather than someone else just like you existing in your place?

Premise 2 invokes a version of the Principle of Causation or the Principle of Sufficient Reason; if something is contingent, there must be a cause of its existence or a reason or explanation why it exists rather than not exists.

I met with the USGBC last week in Washington and we were talking about the growth of LEED for existing building during this time because people are looking to invest more in what already exists rather than create new.

And about allowing that society to exist, rather than micromanaging it.

People are wondering where backdoors do not exist, rather than where they do.

In any case, it presumes that race actually exists, rather than being a social construct.

All this sounds pretty incremental: tweaks to things that already exist rather than radical, life-changing innovations.