Sentence examples for rather than abandonment from inspiring English sources

Management of the canal site to maintain a wet anoxic sediment, rather than abandonment and dereliction would provide a more sensitive and less costly solution.

"It now seems impossible that the North will stop building nuclear weapons, so it might be that the US and other countries will have to talk non-proliferation rather than abandonment," said Professor Shin Jofg-dae of the University of North Korean Studies.

While these criticisms are practically important, they are also theoretically manageable within the economic choice approach, requiring improvements in its use rather than its abandonment.

Rather than prompting abandonment of antioxidant strategies, these failures have raised the bar for justifying drug and dosing selections and for improving study designs to test for disease modification by antioxidants.

Apparel makers like Tommy Hilfiger, consumer goods companies like Procter & Gamble, and music marketers like Sony have all waded cautiously into the e-commerce waters rather than risk abandonment by their retailers.

The rapid progress of organic chemistry witnessed in the early 1830s suggests that Liebig's technical breakthrough, rather than the abandonment of the belief that organic compounds might be under the control of "vital forces," was the key factor in the emergence of biochemistry and clinical chemistry.

If cultural pluralism, for its part, is to avoid falling into a relativistic antagonism or isolationism, it must call for a metamorphosis rather than an abandonment of the philosophical quest for universality (see Fujita 2013; Maraldo 2013).

She stands for rational, comprehensive immigration reform and an improvement rather than an abandonment of the Affordable Care Act.

By contrast, Margaret Moser of The Austin Chronicle characterised its music as "a punchy brand of muscular Brit-pop", while AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine said it "may superficially appear to be a break from tradition" but is a "logical progression" from Britpop rather than an abandonment of it.

Be prepared to explain your reasons, such as this was a peaceful inner search rather than an angry abandonment of their values and will portray your degree of maturity to them.

Most migrants seem to see a foreign passport as insurance against the worst-case scenario rather than as a complete abandonment of China.