Sentence examples for rather a shift from inspiring English sources

Rather, a shift had to occur in which people began to feel that their honour was compromised by the practice.

For all Francis's facility with symbols and grand gestures, he has not instituted a break from Church teaching but, rather, a shift in focus from text to practice, from household rules to daily life.

It might be more apt to refer to a reformist tendency, which doesn't so much represent a dramatic departure from U.S. conservatism as it's been practiced in recent decades but rather a shift of emphasis.

It's probably not a case of Bonfire Night decline, but rather a shift in priorities.

Neither surface modification nor increase in defect density or stress at the CNT-electrode contact could be detected, but rather a shift in G+ and G− peak positions in regions with high CNT density between the electrodes.

In Religion, Economics and Social Thought, Catholic historian Stepehn Tonsor wrote "the Vatican didn't shift to the Left, It's rather a shift to the past.

"It's a movement about him rather than a shift in ideology or policies..

It was more of a narrowing of the definition of what constitutes life, what constitutes a person, rather than a shift or an expansion.

Some political analysts dismissed Mr. Chen's more conciliatory tone as a political ploy rather than a shift in his bedrock beliefs.

So rather than a shift in power relations, participatory development was seen as a mask that perpetuates the dominance of mainly western actors over the recipients of aid.

But since blanket grade inflation rather than a shift to easier ones is the main force at work, this would have little effect.