Sentence examples for expedition rather than from inspiring English sources

"Starr's efforts to inquire into these issues have all the appearance, and vices, of a fishing expedition rather than an effort to establish legally material facts," it said.

And the real reason for all these machinations was probably not the noble goal of stiffening his men's backs to subdue the heathens but to ensure that, if things went wrong and the ships' owners demanded compensation, the blame, and the costs, would be spread among the "common folk" in the expedition rather than falling upon Cortes.

De Houtman included it in his southern star catalogue the same year under the Dutch name De Waterslang, "The Water Snake", it representing a type of snake encountered on the expedition rather than a mythical creature.

During this expedition, rather than focusing on either sea animals as he had at Nonsuch Island or on birds as he had earlier in his life, he attempted to document all aspects of the ecosystem.

Due to the constraints of field investigations, data collection occurred at altitudes convenient to the expedition rather than altitudes selected for physiological purposes.

If you're not in good physical condition, it is better to wait for the next time you can go on expedition rather than hinder yourself and your group.

There is a lot to explore in this drama, not all of which is illuminated by this exhibition; it chooses to focus on a race of expeditions, rather than a race of reputations.

In the article, Robinson notes that sensationalism was often used to justify early polar expeditions rather than their scientific value, and argues that NASA's recent plans to send astronauts to Mars might be an analogous situation.

But civil liberties groups giving evidence to the committee suggested the filtering system could be used to mount "fishing expeditions" rather than targeted surveillance - something the Home Office has explicitly stressed will not happen.

We chose the number of expeditions rather than calendar time as the relevant index.

(He still plans to run the expedition, literally, rather than walk or ride — more than 20 miles a day).