Sentence examples for ill rather than from inspiring English sources

If you have health anxiety, you want to stop worrying about being ill rather than have your physical symptoms relieved.

But it is thought he returned home because he was ill rather than because of any longing for a justice.

This problem is compounded by methodological discrepancies within the literature, and reliance on psychometric tests designed to detect cognitive effects in ill rather than healthy populations.

Psychiatrists convinced the court that Anneliese was mentally ill rather than possessed, and that the exorcists had fuelled her psychotic behaviour through "doctrinaire induction".

They say a doctor was sent out from Moscow when Mr. Kuznetsov was ill rather than having him return home for treatment.

This is palatable to gun rights advocates because it suggests that controlling the mentally ill, rather than controlling firearms, is the solution to gun violence.

We are also starting to recognize addiction as a consequence of social ills rather than individual flaws.

They understand their party as one uninterested in accepting the costs (financial, philosophical and political) of ameliorating past racial ills, rather than one advancing segregation or bigotry.

For too long, the public sector has been assumed to be the solution to the city's ills, rather than part of the problem.

These became politically heated only after judges started using their powers to try to right all manner of social ills rather than simply answering the legal question before them.

As a culture we seem to believe that marriage is a kind of end point and a solution to all ills, rather than the start of a complex process that, depending on who we are and how we deal with it, could go any way at all.