Sentence examples for rather than a certain from inspiring English sources

Most of Facebook's purchases are about talent, rather than a certain product or access to a market, said Ray Valdes, an analyst at Gartner.

LR: It's funny, I've heard you say this before and when you do I always think of Tony Blair rather than a certain group of authors or artists.

As Ms. Sultan writes in the catalog, her inspiration came from Thomas L. Dumm's 1998 essay "Resignation" in the journal Critical Inquiry, in which Mr. Dumm cast disappointment as "a plausible beginning, rather than a certain ending".

The comparison between the prediction results and the measured data demonstrates that the prediction is an extent of variable force rather than a certain point for the given turning conditions, and that the measured force drops into the extent with a smaller relative error.

The book is manifestly a work of literature, but since literature in English (at least as far as prose is concerned) is synonymous with the novel - with an agreed upon form of writing rather than a certain quality of writing - it is removed from the company in which it belongs.

We use the whole DWT-DCT coefficients rather than a certain part of coefficients to adjust matrix dimension.

In nature, willow trees and slow, steady rain exemplify iki; in the human body a slight relaxation, a voice of medium rather than high pitch, a face that is long rather than round, a certain tension and relaxation together of the eyes, mouth, and cheeks, the hand curved or slightly bent back.

Rather than stipulating a certain final required outcome, the award is more about the project experience and the fruit of growth and exploration that blooms from it.

This is profitable because gamblers typically bet on whether a team will exceed some point differential — the "Vegas Spread" — rather than whether a certain team will win.

"When it comes to catastrophes such as these we should be prioritising human beings rather than prioritising a certain religion," he told Guardian Australia.

"When it comes to catastrophes such as these we should be prioritising human beings rather than prioritising a certain religion," Mohamed said.