Sentence examples for rather owing from inspiring English sources

By 2013, it had dropped to thirty-one per cent — the shift not caused by a catastrophic decline in the quality of instruction but, rather, owing to the different demands of new tests introduced in 2013, intended to be more in line with the newly adopted Common Core standards.

These results indicate that the misdistribution was not due to excessive expression of Dscam[TM1]::GFP, but rather owing to disruption of dynein/dynactin function by dominant-negative Glued.

I think that sexual reproduction succeeded just because the sexual populations are more resistant to evolution than the asexual ones, i. e. they are more capable of maintaining their functional integrity and robustness in spite of (or rather owing to) their internal variability.

Therefore, this mechanism may be similar to the known depletion of TEs in promoters caused by the negative impact of TE insertions in genomic regulatory regions; TEs are preferentially found outside of promoter regions not because of selection for insertion in intergenic regions but rather owing to negative selection against insertion in promoters.

We would rather owe a bit more in April than find out we are getting a refund.

The two examine Blum's recent column, "Bill Clinton Laid the Groundwork for Trump's Ugly Immigration Policies," in which Blum explains how Trump's harsh policies "haven't sprung from thin air" but rather "owe a specific debt to legislation enacted during the tenure of none other than President William Jefferson Clinton".

The change in ADCC seems rather owed to an decrease in α1,6-fucosylation caused by blocking of the fucosyltransferase through attachment of the bisecting GlcNAc residue [50].

However, products containing fat lose their freshness rather quickly owing to the oxidation of fatty acids, leading to rancidity.

Alas for Mr Cain, his train derailed rather spectacularly owing to sexual harassment allegations.Instead of crafting new songs from scratch, most candidates repurpose existing jingles.

Meg teaches in a secondary school and Nick is a philosophy lecturer at a new university: his academic position, it turns out, is rather precarious, owing to a faculty row – and here Kureishi may be influenced by the fictions of JM Coetzee and Philip Roth, although the dispute is not dwelt upon.

"This comes as a result of a marked increase in experts' negative assessment of existing preparations to cope with challenges such as extreme weather and climate change, rather than owing to a diminution of fears over chronic economic risks such as unemployment and underemployment or fiscal crises, which have remained relatively stable from 2014," the report said.