Sentence examples for rather than absent from inspiring English sources

Never underestimate man's capacity to hand on misery to man – and I'm sure the next generation will lament their irritatingly hands-on dads – but I hope it will be broadly positive for so many boys and girls to grow up with involved rather than absent fathers.

He was working in an era when the controversial Moynihan Report, which blamed black matriarchs and absent fathers for black poverty, rather than absent jobs, was widely accepted, whereas the prophetic Kerner Commission, indicting white society as "deeply implicated in the ghetto," was ignored.

The ideal situation is to have an anticipation of epidemic arrivals for rapid response to the epidemic rather than absent or late reporting of epidemic arrivals that translates into a certain, possibly high magnitude outbreaks.

It was possible that the pattern of responses to M45 would be affected by the immunoproteasome in a temporal fashion (i.e. responses may be delayed rather than absent).

It is notable that the eight EGFR doublets containing OMIDI pairs all have closely spaced mutations that result in a net in-frame mutation, thus producing an EGFR protein with potentially altered, rather than absent, function.

Pycnogonida do not have exopods, so the character has been coded as inapplicable rather than absent.

The charity clarified that a sense of confusion about day-to-day tasks rather than absent-minded mistakes should be a cause for concern.

Kaymer needs to win or share second place with no more than one other player if he, rather than the absent Lee Westwood, is to succeed Tiger Woods when the American's 281-week reign ends on Monday.

But fundamental to the plan was that the value would be retained in the community: every citizen was to be a shareholder, with the "unearned increment" ploughed back into civic facilities, rather than to absent landlords or speculative investors.

This provides Sanders high ground, that is not subject to differences of mere political opinion.. Asking to change the rules so he wins rather than Clinton, absent such a moral principle, will not be treated as high ground.

This difference was mainly due to a lower proportion of spermatozoa with abnormal acrosomes (mainly swollen acrosomes) rather than with absent acrosomes.