Sentence examples for opposed rather than from inspiring English sources

Listening to Benedict on Sunday, Essam Nasser, a Syrian who works in Lebanon, said he and his relatives still in Syria would stick with a government they opposed rather than risk the uncertainty of change.

Until then, the nationalist narrative had largely been a negative one, infused with grievance (perceived and real), and much clearer about what it opposed rather than what it was for.

If that happens, count on two reactions: Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, will oppose it, and a chorus of American politicians and commentators will suggest that it would be unprecedented — even unthinkable — for an American president to support a Security Council resolution that Israel opposed, rather than veto it.

"In part because of that interpretive shift, science and democracy came to seem opposed, rather than mutually reinforcing (p. 367)." Yet Jewett's book itself (Cambridge University Press, 2012) shows that times are a-changing, to recall Bob Dylan.

Regardless of the mechanisms, however, the effects of CORT opposed, rather than promoted, aging changes for most CAS genes.

Likewise the parliamentary opposition is there to oppose rather than fall into line behind Government.

We can be easily defined by what we oppose, rather than what we support.

There are two universes but they're opposing rather than parallel.

Further, to oppose rather than connect them to other forms of African "indigenous spirituality" seems willful — worthy of Naipaul, perhaps, but questionable in a reviewer.

As the prime minister has demonstrated in two recent speeches, it is easier to define what you oppose, rather than what you would promote.

Instead, there would be a democratic state to oppose rather than support the Assad regime in Syria, and to give Iraq a chance to find the democracy that tens of thousands died for.