Sentence examples for rather than dissolve from inspiring English sources

Rather than dissolve parliament and call an election, President Giorgio Napolitano could decide to install a transitional, cross-party government.

The attractiveness of these polymers lies in the fact that they swell rather than dissolve when the temperature is reduced below their respective lower critical solution temperature, due to the incorporation of octadecyl methacrylate (ODMA).

Rudd may have famously described climate change as "the greatest moral challenge of our time", but when confronted with Senate opposition he chose to abandon his emissions trading scheme legislation (rather than dissolve parliament).

After the grafting copolymerization, the copolymer-coated Fe3O4 nanoparticles can spontaneously precipitate rather than dissolve in hexane.

It is unusual for a still relied upon technological innovation that has been the buttress of an entire industry to dissolve overnight, but when it happens, rather than dissolve into dust, its dissolution is felt like an earthquake that shakes the very foundation of an industry.

Rather than dissolve, these gangs grew.

This is particularly true of nanomaterials that exist as discrete particles rather than dissolved or sorbed contaminant molecules in the environment.

The sour or sharp element is often at least partly supplied by an apple: Smith uses a cooking variety, but Johansen and Oliver's dessert version holds up better to long slow cooking, rather than dissolving into apple sauce.

The nitro group of ROX was reduced by structural sulfide rather than dissolved sulfide or ferrous iron to generate an amino-group containing product, 4-hydroxy-3-aminophenylarsonic acid (HAPA).

In the case of disperse dyes, in which particles of dye are dispersed in, rather than dissolved in, the solution, no gross aggregates can be allowed; otherwise the packages would retain undesirable solids on the outer and inner surfaces.

The lentils, like the beans used by many recipes (borlotti in Campbell's case, aduki for Legge and kidney for the Vegetarian Society), are of course very nice, but they tend to retain their shape rather than dissolving into the other ingredients, making the finished dish more of a bean stew than a haggis.