Sentence examples for rather than constituting from inspiring English sources

Becoming carbon positive is meant to act as a guiding star rather than constituting a formal goal we expect to achieve in the next few years.

"Some Israelis began to grasp that, rather than constituting a different breed of Jews, they were simply generationally and geographically lucky," she writes.

Rather than constituting a dodge, this has the tantalizing effect of splicing the question of talent from personality, of status from impressions of how status is expected to appear.

Rather than constituting a means of restoring rationality or correcting cognitive biases, calculation can actually reinforce ego defences while simultaneously perpetuating the myth of homo economicus.

Rather than constituting environmental nuisance, cottonseed oil-mill effluent (COME) can be harnessed into use as biofertilizers in this region and similar regions of the tropics.

Wanting to produce architecture is like wanting to talk to people: it determines what kind of activity the person wants to do rather than constituting a method.

These materials therefore supported rather than constituted the expertise of the buyers.

So any penalty that might be imposed would simply add to the costs of the merger rather than constitute any real punishment of a wrongdoer.

The idea behind this criticism is that such intentions presuppose rather than constitute collective intentionality (cf. Schmid 2005; Petersson 2007).

Rather than constitute their own movement, politicians like Orman, Pressler, and King are signs of the electorate's dissatisfaction with the current Republican and Democratic parties, not a broader rejection of the two-party system.

This suggested that WC28 SCCmec and SCCWC28 might have integrated independently rather than constituted a composite.