Sentence examples for rather a first from inspiring English sources

This structure does not ensure stability in PEMFC conditions but is rather a first step towards the formation of "Pt-shell/Pt Co alloy core" structures with dePt-shell/Pt Coent.

The proposal is not a formal bid for the airline, but rather a first step in preparing one, since the unions did not say how much they would pay for UAL shares and would still have to get financing.

It is, rather, a First Amendment case, about whether the Solomon Amendment impinges on the right to freedom of speech at universities, and whether the government has the right to use the leverage of federal aid to insist that the military be treated like other employers.

And it turns the old consensus on its head – arguing that rising inequality harms growth, that smart social spending is not the kindly thing governments do after they raise the revenue, but rather a first order revenue-boosting exercise in itself, and asserting that governments need to intervene more to get their economies through this economic transition.

Since the argument proceeds independent of temporal considerations, the argument does not propose a first cause in time, but rather a first or primary sustaining cause of the universe.

By first book, Obama doesn't mean a first book, but rather a first post-presidency tome.

Guardian Australia's political editor, Lenore Taylor, has argued that Labor's economic approach "sits with a growing new political consensus that rising inequality harms growth and smart social spending should not be the kindly thing governments do after they raise the revenue but, rather, a first-order revenue-boosting exercise in itself".

As I wrote last month, the Labor formulation sits with a growing new political consensus that rising inequality harms growth and smart social spending should not be the kindly thing governments do after they raise the revenue but, rather, a first-order revenue-boosting exercise in itself.

Forrest himself is described as "rather a nineteenth-century boy".

As the heirs to the Great Powers again reduce Greece to enslavement, there's always a first – or rather, a second – time.

The Fact of Reason has, rather, a first-person character such that we can only be certain about the bindingness of the moral law upon ourselves.