Sentence examples for rather than derived from inspiring English sources

It differed from abstraction in that it was totally invented rather than derived from real-world sources.

As Rees relates, there are a whole clutch of other numbers of cosmic significance that are measured rather than derived from some theory.

Speaking at the end of his weekly general audience, Pope Benedict XVI endorsed research using so-called adult stem cells, which are isolated from tissue samples taken from adults rather than derived from human embryos, a technique the Vatican still condemns.

Unlike Penrose's argument, Landauer's principle seems to be assumed, rather than derived.

A minority of WT mice was of pure strain stock, rather than derived from backcrossing.

To test whether the observed polymorphism is indeed of mitochondrial origin rather than derived from a nuclear mitochondrial pseudogene, we isolated mtDNA of four A. vulgare female samples using an alkaline lysis protocol [8].

He imposes personality upon paper rather than deriving, as novelists more customarily do, a paper work from personal sources.

Folk Traditions Connecticut houses built before the American Revolution fall into the vernacular or folk category, rather than deriving from academic architecture.

In other words, we postulate that certain symmetries are physically significant, rather than deriving them from prior dynamical equations.

Second, smart institutions are forward-looking in their operation rather than deriving from their past functions and purpose in contrast to most generic institutions.

However, in both instances his main objective was to propose useful model diagnostics rather than deriving the null distribution of a formal statistical test.