Sentence examples for instead of rather from inspiring English sources

Many people arriving in new countries are encouraged to take up the language of their new home instead of – rather than alongside – their own.

It would have been preferable if Mr. Esfahani had begun his program with works by Rameau or Couperin instead of rather pedantic pieces by William Byrd, which meandered despite Mr. Esfahani's confident, characterful playing and tasteful ornamentation.

Despite the fact that those two statements mildly contradict one another (it seems like Sony's should have "as well as" instead of "rather than"), this is all exactly what I talked about in the second half of the post.

The role was perceived as an "add on to", rather than "instead of", standard clinical practice.

A selection bias towards patients with a previous poor response to allopurinol is a possibility and finally, due to fact that the primary endpoints of this trial were biochemical (reductions in SUA) instead of clinical (ie, disease-rather than patient-oriented outcomes), the study is difficult to apply to clinical practice where reductions in gout flares are of paramount interest for patients.

They offer harmony instead of noise, conversation rather than confrontation, resignation instead of rebellion.

"Huge difference when everybody above you caves instead of standing tall," Rather said.

And instead of the original, rather goggle-like design, the latest version has light, thin frames.

What's left instead of laughter is a rather sour implication.

He had come to believe that science and religion, instead of conflicting, are rather the two poles of thought.

"Instead of a rather mild increase of the Dominican population, our conclusion is there was more than 50percentt growth of Dominicans in New York City in the last decade".