Sentence examples for maintains instead from inspiring English sources

From this premise, they inferred that no such system could have come about through the gradual alteration of functioning precursor systems by means of random mutation and natural selection, as the standard evolutionary account maintains; instead, living organisms must have been created all at once by an intelligent designer.

The classic contemporary treatment maintains, instead, that the internal system of representation has a language-like syntax and a compositional semantics.

Although Nikolais's choreography was sometimes criticized as "dehumanizing," he maintained instead that it was liberating.

Some businesses have maintained instead that their dismissals were prompted by Hong Kong's present economic troubles, and not by discrimination.

The human trafficking unit of the Metropolitan police should have its £870,000 a year funding maintained instead of being cut to £400,000 for 2009-10.

Nye is crafty: he says nothing of the murders, maintaining instead that he is seeking Hickock for parole violations and check fraud.

The state did not fully exonerate him, maintaining instead that there was "some evidence" of his guilt, but not enough to convict.

The state did not completely exonerate Mr. Tankleff, maintaining instead that there was "some evidence" of his guilt, although not enough to convict.

Some theorists, known as atomists, argue that no such goods are intrinsically common or communal, maintaining instead that there are only individual goods that accrue to individuals.

It begins by rejecting the traditional philosophical denial of the fear of death, maintaining instead that this fear is the beginning of the cognition of the All.

The author ultimately disputes the view that ethnographic filmmaking is merely a visual form of anthropology, maintaining instead that it is a radical anthropological practice, which challenges many of the basic assumptions of the discipline of anthropology itself.