Sentence examples for rather than assert from inspiring English sources

It seems to hover in space rather than assert a fixed position.

Rather than assert his innocence or talk about justice, he offers a zigzagging meditation on the nature of fatalism.

Finally, even if I had been attempting to silence by my choice of examples, rather than assert the truth, my argument that silencing exists and certain examples are instances of it would not be undermined.

Mr. Triana, 60, said that while Trujillo could be seen as a symptom of his country's lack of a democratic foundation, he rose to power because of people like Agustín Cabral, a man who gives away his dignity rather than assert himself and resist, even at the risk of death.

However, rather than assert that everything is static, Diodorus took the view that bodies must have moved without ever being in motion: they are simply at one place at one moment, and at another place at another moment.

This fact further threatens the idea that truth attaches only to propositions, although some uses of language may themselves be analysed as realizing the instrumental form of truth (e.g., when I exclaim that 'this hammer is too heavy for the job', rather than assert that it has the objective property of weighing 2.5 kilos; Overgaard 2002, 77; cf. Being and Time 33:199–200).

Rather than asserting his authority as the artist, he just kept making his argument.

Rather than asserting his own point of view, Lendl has focused on understanding Murray's.

It's better to say that we are like someone in love rather than asserting that we are in love.

Rather than asserting authority over her materials, she has a way of letting them speak for themselves, even as she maintains narrative momentum.

He may be right (though I don't think so), but in any event he would be more persuasive if he argued the point rather than asserting it.