Sentence examples for opposed to contributing from inspiring English sources

Bob Fertik, president of Democrats.com, a progressive Web site, started asking his readers last month to pledge money to an escrow fund for Mr. Obama, as opposed to contributing to him outright.

I was unsuccessful, but we got a strong statement that "tawdry allegations about an individual's private life" are not lawful, as opposed to "contributing to a debate of general public interest in a democratic society".

With a portion of their ticket sale going to feeding someone locally, movie-goers can feel good about donating to something very close to home, as opposed to contributing to a nationwide or worldwide organization and wondering what happened to it.

Individuals are more interested in loading their prepaid Starbucks cards with money as opposed to contributing to their 401K plans.

Dr. Yanai also raises an interesting point about the role that TE sequences may play as 'space holders' as opposed to contributing specific regulatory sequences.

We included this variable as it represents respondent's personal expenditure capability independent of monies they might receive from a sexual partner; it is associated with household wellbeing; and it may also indicate parental attitudes about the extent to which young women or men should be supported as opposed to contribute to the household during this life stage.

If we were to do this, we would be focusing on the identification of variants contributing effects to obesity in T2D cases, as opposed to variants contributing effects to T2D, allowing for the possibility that these effects differ between obese and non-obese cases.

The present study has highlighted the important role played by stability, as opposed to migration, in contributing to the mental health of members of rural and urban communities.

Beckett brilliantly highlights how many other things were stirring in those early years of the decade, unconnected with the government or actively opposed to it, which contributed to a remarkable recovery of national confidence.

It will be important to determine whether the sustained repression in presynaptic mRNA translation, as opposed to global translational, contributes to neuronal loss in neurodegenerative diseases.

This substantiated the presence of chromosomal regions which stably contribute to biomass yield as opposed to regions which only contribute to biomass yield in a temporally restricted manner.The full 2-dimensional epistasis scan revealed epistatic QTL for all three developmental stages.