Sentence examples for rather than an effort from inspiring English sources

He seemed to make headway by characterizing the required pledge as a selection criterion rather than an effort to force groups to adopt views they did not hold.

I contacted the participants and asked them to think of this as experimental, rather than an effort to refine the existing logo.

"So this is more about quickly moving past a bad headline during the off-season rather than an effort to correct the underlying misconduct," Sanderson said.

"Starr's efforts to inquire into these issues have all the appearance, and vices, of a fishing expedition rather than an effort to establish legally material facts," it said.

His tone suggested that he viewed Enron's collapse as an example of the ups and downs of capitalism, rather than an effort to defraud.

"It is our fear," Mr. Smith said, "that what will result is a strategy for defense of the system rather than an effort to find solutions".

But we seem to have forgotten that environmental health can also be a positive effort rather than a negative effort, an effort to promote good environments rather than control bad environments.

This is largely a marketing effort, rather than an engineering effort.

Our findings suggest that developing PMSs should to a large extent be understood as a co-ordination effort rather than a design effort.

The Pentagon rejected Halliburton's proposal, but attributed it to miscommunication rather than to an effort to defraud the government.

The whole enterprise looked like an exercise in Hall of Fame-building, rather than like an effort to chip away at the very idea of hierarchy and exclusion.