Sentence examples for rather than absolutely from inspiring English sources

From a purely phonetic point of view, sounds are more or less similar, rather than absolutely the same or absolutely different.

"The more these things are tackled through normality, with some little exceptions at the top, rather than absolutely, by exception, the better.

Rather than absolutely banning abortion, as many conservatives in the room clearly preferred, Murray quoted his friend Karl Hess, a Goldwater speechwriter turned "charming anarchist," on the idea that abortions should be thought of as homicides — with the caveat that, "It's a murder — it's a homicide — but sometimes homicide is justified".

This is also true in the theory if one only relatively, rather than absolutely, makes the sequence of observations.

Facebook's IPO, whether it was merely enormous rather than absolutely flabbergasting, just contributed another layer to the Valley's accumulated riches.

For MAC purposes, the output of the channel assessment module is used within the device, thus it only needs to be relatively correct, rather than absolutely.

A few slide down leg side, but the batsmen opt for the Tuck and the Push rather than the Absolutely Leathering The Thing.

The former attorney general of Louisiana James "Buddy Caldwelll has tried to argue that this wasn't really solitary at all, on the basis of the limited human contact allowed – that, rather than being absolutely unsurvivable, it was merely almost so.

"In this Test and the previous ones?" I just need about another 12 hours' research, Graham, so I'll stay in tonight and do that rather than get absolutely trounced in celebration of the greatest cricket series any of us will ever see.

This embrace of an indeterminate ground of the determinate may reflect the decision to give the phenomenon of change a fundamental place in ontology, rather than an absolutely stable being as in Parmenidean ontology and as later reflected in Aristotelian and Cartesian notions of substance (Cheng, 1989, 1991).

Thus, the cases represent various levels of risk rather than being absolutely representative for the hypertensive population of the region.