Sentence examples for rather than authoritative from inspiring English sources

In all these fights Mr Hatoyama has come across as quirky rather than authoritative.

They said they wanted to collaborate in decisions about their care but felt they couldn't because doctors often acted authoritarian, rather than authoritative.

The word they first used, Dr. Leavitt said, made it "sound like God had been working out at the gym," conveying a vision of physical strength rather than authoritative power.

When the data become accessible to others, it becomes clear that scientific authorship is provisional rather than authoritative.

However, Google Flu Trends has shown poor performance in estimating the burden of influenza [ 17], correlates better with influenza-like illness than with laboratory-confirmed influenza [ 18], cannot accommodate data from healthcare settings, and is considered a supplementary rather than authoritative source for influenza surveillance [ 19– 219.

Her distinctive approach to Coolidge results in a soothing lullaby about a vanished America, an exercise in nostalgic reverence rather than an authoritative history.

Expanding this approach across Europe could ultimately lead to the demise of the right of individual petition, in favour of a judicial dialogue where the Strasbourg court is used as a sounding board rather than an authoritative voice.

Mr Cai, a prominent New York-based artist who won the prestigious Golden Lion award at the 1999 Biennale, has chosen five artists working in China today to present a slice of the art scene there rather than an authoritative view; his is the Biennale's most impressive pavilion.In this section Conjuror of victory American idol Seeing red O lucky woman!

Maddy has indeed cited a feature distinguishing mathematics from pure astrology, as she points out (2007, 390); but what still remains unclear is why this feature should make mathematics rather than science authoritative with respect to questions in mathematics proper.

Zofia Burr has countered Angelou's critics by condemning them for not taking into account Angelou's larger purposes in her writing: "to be representative rather than individual, authoritative rather than confessional".

All these parameters, taking separately, indicate rather chatty contributors than authoritative ones.