Sentence examples for rather contains from inspiring English sources

Rainwater is not pure but rather contains dissolved gases and salts, fine-ground particulate material, organic substances, and even bacteria.

Some Dogmas of Religion does not contain a direct argument for the non-existence of God, but rather contains rebuttals of arguments for the existence of God.

Legal judgment often contains a lot of materials which is not centred around an area of law but rather contains general descriptions of the event and the people involved in the case.

Although little is known about a number of these domains, they are significant in that they show that the nucleoplasm is not uniform mixture, but rather contains organized functional subdomains.

The results presented so far suggest that the convoluted DNA is not loosely coiled, but rather contains non-B-form structures.

It rather contains alternate stretches of R-rich and Y-rich segments.

This year's Turner debate has, however, seemed a rather contained and distracted affair.

Christiane Karg was a touching Gretchen, Alastair Miles a rather contained Mephistopheles, and Andrew Staples and Lucy Crowe were excellent in a variety of roles.

From Jordan to Kuwait, Egypt to Saudi Arabia, the governments seemed relieved that General Powell did not advocate toppling Mr. Hussein, but rather containing him more effectively.

The domestic fallout from these massive arrivals has been – compared to the xenophobia on show in much of Europe – rather contained.

Haya al-Merri tweets: "The US war does not aim at uprooting extremism; but rather containing its impact on US and Israeli interests in the region".