Sentence examples for rather than appropriate from inspiring English sources

All this fuels the idea of the body beautiful and encourages a quick fix rather than appropriate diet and physical fitness levels".

However, many of those micropumps have been designed taking into account primarily available microfabrication technologies rather than appropriate pump performance analysis.

Rather than appropriate funds for the NICS Improvement Act to help states forward more records of dangerous people to the system, Congress spent more time on second-guessing the gun ordinances of a local government instead.

Even if an officer was racist, he said, it's nearly impossible to prove whether he or she stopped someone because of that bias, rather than appropriate probable cause or reasonable suspicion.

The group is among those now pressuring Republicans in Congress to shut down the government rather than appropriate any money to Planned Parenthood, a cause that has stirred the antiabortion fervor in the party's base.

[31] Third, several studies have used non-standard measures of diagnostic performance such as odds ratios to report their findings [19], [32], [33], [34], [35], rather than appropriate measures such as sensitivity, specificity, and likelihood ratios.

Instead of nature brushworked into art, British land art proposed a brush with nature, its materials discovered rather than appropriated.

Rather than appropriating that family's dog, you could have gone to the A.S.P.C.A., where there are many animals seeking a home.

Perhaps it's a case of separating the two, of viewing this art form in a purely visual way, of borrowing its style rather than appropriating its roots.

It was not just a matter of using quotation marks, the professor said, but of toiling to write a good passage rather than appropriating one.

Mr. Herbert is one of many musicians who, rather than appropriating extracts from others' songs, use found, ambient and other naturally occurring sounds as the foundation for their tunes.