Sentence examples for rather than Y from inspiring English sources

But again, Pence is putting his credibility on the line when he offers X as the explanation rather than Y, and it turns out it was indeed Y.

It is used with two either/or alternatives — "X rather than Y" — not with "more" in an expression of comparison or degree.

"They say, for instance, 'I know we need to bring our sales up, but I think we'll be more effective if we do X rather than Y,' with Y being the thing giving them pause," Ms. Gentile says.

What if he were in a position to announce, for instance, that the truth of the quantum-mechanical laws can be traced back to the fact that the world has some other, deeper property X? Wouldn't we still be in a position to ask why X rather than Y?

Why not attend X's university rather than Y's, which is 300 miles away, and save on travel, rent and food?" But in my experience it finds little traction.

For instance, use "latitude" and "longitude" to name such geospatial attributes rather than "Y" and "X" (with a coordinate system attribute as well, of course).

2.1.2 but with some modifications: to construct (B u^{0,pm }|_{x_1=0}) and from it to construct (u^{1,pm }), we freeze coefficients in ((y',0)) rather than in y.

This is because everything scales linearly and more people will bear the brunt or enjoy the benefits—of a country led by candidate X rather than candidate Y.

Rather than being, y'know, dead and gone.

Rather than being, y'know, dead and gone.

The weird thing about that name is that "glide" is usually spelled with an "i" rather than a y, so someone at Samsung must have been doing DMT.