Sentence examples for rather than agreement from inspiring English sources

Wars sometimes end by exhaustion rather than agreement, and that may be the best that can be expected for Syria.

Bernard Gray, who takes up the post in April, will be quizzed by the committee early next month, believed to be the first time a pre-selection hearing has been held by demand rather than agreement.

A subsequent study used stability rather than agreement as termination criteria for Delphi [ 13].

Further results in this study are uninterpretable since they were analysed as correlation rather than agreement, although it is noteworthy that correlation between methods was poor.

In this case, the nature of the question is calibration of the simpler method against the 'exact' method rather than agreement.

We believe that this discrepancy may be in part because of the fact that many studies have considered correlation rather than agreement.

Russia's rulers prefer a system that is reliant on obedience rather than agreements, where governors and mayors are no more than Kremlin emissaries with no independent power base.

It would in fact be more accurate to refer to a European Union-NAFTA agreement rather than an agreement associating the European Union with Mexico only.

The recommendations of using ceasefire agreements will focus on the latter type of agreement, rather than peace agreements (and long-term ceasefire agreements).

First, let's keep in mind in our own rhetoric, that these proposed agreements are mostly investor protection agreements, rather than trade agreements.

A federal district judge dismissed the SEC case in July 2009, saying Cuban did not qualify as an insider, and at most had entered a confidentiality agreement with Mamma.com rather than an agreement not to trade.