Sentence examples for rather than comparable from inspiring English sources

On Friday, the premium investors demand to hold debt issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac rather than comparable Treasury notes and bonds began to fall as word of the government plan spread.

An official familiar with the inquiry and the circumstances that prompted it said the fact that it was being handled by an Air Force agency, rather than a comparable unit in another service branch, should not be taken as a sign that high Pentagon officials suspected that the leak came from an Air Force source.

Although the definitions used mean that the measure of experience for skill form is not directly matched, they enabled us to measure individuals who had high levels of ability on their respective skills forms (either language or musical training), rather than being comparable only on quantitative information, but different in their level of ability.

These ANOVAs involved the same group sizes as the previous comparison, but the two age groups differed in explicit knowledge rather than being comparable in this respect.

This would be consistent with a lower prevalence of ankylosing spondylitis in China than the United States, rather than a comparable prevalence.

However, rather than being comparable, many of the primary studies in these reviews were a mixture of study designs focused on various interventions.

However, our study aimed to identify ODIP, rather than GDM, comparable to RBG and HbA1c being poor at detecting impaired glucose tolerance but much better at identifying those with OGTT-defined diabetes in the nonpregnant state (8).

One may attribute the lack of reported differences between amputees and nonamputees to 'adjustment and accommodation' to their current condition, rather than having comparable physical ability such as range of motion and strength.

On the other hand, slow gastric emptying in the intragastric feeding cohort would have introduced a bias towards reduced absorption in that group, rather than showing comparable effects to post-pyloric feeding.

Shifting priorities of the MoH meant a focus on a slightly different group of respondents in 2004, which meant we had to restrict our analysis to comparable subsets rather than simply compare the whole sample in 1999 with that in 2004.

Giving college applicants preference based on socioeconomic factors, rather than race, is comparable to affirmative action in achieving racial diversity, and superior in helping people who are disadvantaged, according to a study released on Wednesday.