Sentence examples for exists rather than from inspiring English sources

Lawrence Chimerine, consulting economist for Mastercard International, estimated that 75percentto80percentcent of the increase in total credit lines reflected the issuance of new cards -- for which no reliable count exists -- rather than expanded capacity for existing card holders.

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.

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

Building on what exists, rather than clearing it for redevelopment, may preserve not only the character of a place but also its economic vibrancy.

Second, we can equip young people for the world as it exists rather than as we would wish it to be.

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

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

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

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

It is a maximization principle as it suggests that arbitrary subsets exist rather than only those that have enough regularity to fit in a definable well-ordering.