Sentence examples for is but rather from inspiring English sources

Mr. Chomet, as evident from "The Triplets of Belleville," is not Tati (no one else is), but rather his own artist.

It isn't that she is any simpler or less thoughtful than he is, but rather that they don't share the same cultural references and expectations.

MARTHA CHOE'S ideal working space is not her private office, nice though it is, but rather a long, narrow table in the vast atrium of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation headquarters here.

For more than a century, the courts have ruled that juries have no right to decide what the law is, but rather have a duty to apply the law to the facts based on the trial evidence.

The question is not what we can do to keep the climate as it is but rather what we can do to prepare for what nature has in store for us.Gordon V. Smith McLean, Virginia.

Pointing out that she was on the Senate education committee, Mr. Young urged her "not to be too quick to reauthorize the law as is," but rather to rework its basic assumptions.

Most nominees are not formally stopped, as Halligan was, but rather are delayed and delayed.

Not death is to be explained, but rather birth.

He is clear, but rather diffuse.

That line is convenient, but rather arbitrary.

Other contributions are known but rather marginally.