Sentence examples for rather than contradictory from inspiring English sources

The answer may be that these effects are complementary, rather than contradictory.

Although there are striking differences between the books, they are complimentary rather than contradictory.

But Mr Vickers explains that Smith's comments must be seen as complementary rather than contradictory.

But the work's point, driven home in long, pointed sequences in both acts, is his notion that religion and science should be regarded as complementary rather than contradictory.

The results indicate that the majority of rural youth keep a view of the countryside that is in accordance with the 'rural idyll'/'rural dull' concepts these two images of the rural being complementary rather than contradictory.

What Cage had in mind was a poetic perspective toward the music of the everyday — wind, traffic, sputtering bursts from a distant jackhammer — and a notion that simultaneous sounds, however disparate, could be complementary rather than contradictory.

(Note that this nomenclature makes the two contraries rather than contradictories; the error theorist and the noncognitivist count as neither objectivists nor non-objectivists. The error theorist may, however, be an objectivist in a different sense: in holding that moral facts are conceptually objective facts).

"It confirms the chief constable's August statement rather than the contradictory implications that flowed from the arrest of [Sinn Féin northern chairman] Bobby Storey, and on that basis ministers will be appointed to office later today". Mr Storey, a former IRA prisoner, is the northern chairman of Sinn Féin.

When a negative term is a contrary rather than a contradictory of the corresponding simple affirmative, to deny its application Socrates isn't a not-white log does not result in the mutual annihilation of logical double negation, any more than does the negation of a mediate contrary (She's not unhappy, It isn't uncommon).

Although in retrospect it can be seen that the dimensions of openness framework and the IEHIA method are complementary rather than fundamentally contradictory, some practical difficulties in merging these views led into their development side by side rather than together within the project.

The apparent strong evidence linking both L-VGCCs and RyRs to dysregulated hippocampal Ca2+ homeostasis during aging, rather than being contradictory, may instead suggest an expanded model of the Ca2+ dysregulation pathway in brain aging and, perhaps in AD (as shown in Fig. 4).