Sentence examples for rather than abrogate from inspiring English sources

However, rather than abrogate the Agreed Framework, Washington -- in close consultation with Seoul and Tokyo -- should suspend its implementation for the time being.

It is thus important to pharmacologically modulate, rather than abrogate, systemic HMGB1 accumulation to facilitate resolution of a potentially injurious inflammatory response.

Surprisingly, gefitinib in the dose range from 0.1 to 0.5  μ M significantly facilitates, rather than abrogate, colony formation of NR6M cells.

There was little overlap (<10%) in the TGF-β signatures from the MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231 cells and HER-2 overexpression in the MDA-MB-231 cell line greatly increased the magnitude and the complexity of the TGF-β gene response rather than abrogating the response as seen in MCF-7 cells (Figs 4b and 7).

The novel and distinct phenotypes of smc1-D1164E and smc3-D1161E might result from a subtle change that alters rather than abrogates D-loop function, given the chemical similarity of aspartate and glutamate.

Rather than completely abrogating the long-established privileges of the temples, shrines, and local landlords (kokujin), he at first recognized them, regarding them as an important adjunct to the strengthening of his military power and using them as followers in his battles for unification.

Taganov et al. [63] showed that miR-146 regulatory circuit fine-tunes TLR and cytokine signalling, rather than totally abrogating the signal, in response to microbial components and proinflammatory cytokines.

Blockade of FGFR1 signaling by either chemical inhibitors or siRNA targeting FGFR1 rather than FGFR3 abrogated the up-regulation of matrix metalloproteinases 13 (MMP-13) and a disintegrin and metalloproteinase with a thrombospondin type 1 motif 5 (asAMTS5), as well as down-regulation of aggrecan after FGF-2 stimulation.

We hypothesize that the constraints of a small genome provide selective pressure for HIV-1 to evolve evasion strategies, rather than antagonists that abrogate the effector functions of restriction factors.

Psoriasis risk alleles at non-coding SNPs therefore tend to abrogate, rather than engender, PRE motifs.

One reason the administration prefers to abrogate the treaty rather than modify it is that the underlying agenda is not simply missile defense but a broader vision of the militarization of space.