Sentence examples for rather than consistent from inspiring English sources

The comptroller, Howard S. Weitzman, said he found that the company had "relied on individual appraisers' undocumented professional judgment, rather than consistent and documented measures of valuation".

If subjects took Agent B's perspective and inhibited their self-perspective during mental inference, responses should be slower in the inconsistent rather than consistent conditions.

Their study results have been found to comprise a complex web of different pain and sensory characteristics [ 49, 53- 57] rather than consistent findings related to a particular causative factor, in our case a repetitive mechanical trauma.

Cells were identified for further analysis as having significant ramping activity as those whose firing rate in the 3 s preceding a correct nose-poke was linear with respect to time with ¦ r¦ > 0.5, P < 0.05 (Bonferonni-corrected to the number of cells), and a ¦β¦-value > 0.3 (to ensure ramping activity rather than consistent flat lines).

This suggests haphazard rather than uniform and consistent efforts to identify and remove the most hardened criminals.

With this in mind, the effective activation energy for acetaldehyde release at 48.4 kJ mol−1, points to activation energies consistent with bond breaking rather than vapourisation, consistent with previous work showing it to be generated from thermal decomposition of sugars, pectin and cellulosic ingredients within tobacco [39].

A whole body of myths and legends, rather than a consistent body of ideas, have become the glue that holds everything together.

Research in economics, psychology, demography, sociology and history, Shiller writes, suggests that "the present stock market displays the classic features of a speculative bubble: a situation in which temporarily high prices are sustained largely by investors' enthusiasm rather than by consistent estimation of real value".

Rather than a consistent "risk-based" approach to drivers using drugs, the government would prefer to use the Road Traffic Act to get tough on people who test positive for an arbitrary selection of the wrong drugs, and in doing so send a clear message to everyone about the unacceptability of drug use.

It recognises their social role, even though it acknowledges that they are unconstitutional.What Banyan terms as a rejection of both pre-19899 leftism" and "market fundamentalism" is actually just the vacillating position of the party's leadership, rather than any consistent commitment to an economic policy (it opposes more foreign investment in retail).

Variable search speed was also associated with increased accuracy, rather than a consistent pace, as predicted.