Sentence examples for measures but rather from inspiring English sources

("He does not hesitate at our boldest Measures, but rather seems to think us too irresolute," John wrote to Abigail, perpetually annoyed at Franklin's gift for arriving late at a party and then lighting all the candles on the cake).

Mary Brandenberger, a justice department spokeswoman for the Cops office, said the recommendations were not merely "guidance" specific to individual departments needing special measures, but rather best practices that are applicable to law enforcement agencies nationwide.

In the social sciences, in particular, most evaluations are not measures, but rather mixtures of opinion and estimation.

For a flexible peptide, the estimated percentages of secondary structure components should not be taken as absolute measures, but rather reflect on relative changes between spectra in a series of experiments.

Their study does not attempt to develop service quality measures, but rather tries to show how such measures can be incorporated into a model that can provide guideline towards service quality improvement.

Because several study sites have very few staff involved in HIV testing or linkage to treatment in the community, penetration does not focus on staff measures, but rather focuses on the measure of penetration as the proportion of inmates who receive an HIV service such as HIV testing, prevention intervention, or linkage of HIV-infected inmates to treatment in the community.

But arguably, it is not a gifted measure, but rather a measure of school readiness, as its name indicates.

He said the decision to keep Marbury away from the team was not a disciplinary measure, but rather a practical move.

To the extent that time intervals are even intelligible, on this view, they are not measured but rather defined by changes in clock faces.

Committee aides urged reporters not to measure the $100 billion goal against the annual spending levels assumed in the current stopgap measure, but rather against Mr. Obama's overall budget request, including security-related spending.

This measure is not the standard Lebesgue measure, but rather a measure defined by the chance function in question.