Sentence examples for rather than improvements from inspiring English sources

The researchers demonstrate that this increase in regulatory stringency, rather than improvements in manufacturing productivity or trade exposure, accounted for most of the decreases in pollution emissions.

But Ms. Quarles warned that it was not entirely clear what portion of the revenue gains came from recent acquisitions, rather than improvements in Yahoo's business.

Over the ensuing centuries, Chinese, Indian, and Arab mathematicians extended the number of decimal places known through tedious calculations, rather than improvements on Archimedes' method.

Interdependence is evaluated in this paper for several technologies to determine the overall reduction in delay uncertainty rather than improvements in STA.

Nintendo is a big believer in this approach, in part because the twists it introduces with its new consoles often involve how games are played rather than improvements in graphics, the forte of Microsoft and Sony.

It is looking for defects rather than improvements.

Otherwise the data may fuel anger and recrimination rather than improvement.

But so far, apart from a significant rise in jobs, which often go to transient workers, many see deterioration rather than improvement in their standard of living.

These findings suggest that patients with npAIR unresponsive to other immunosuppression therapies may benefit from rituximab infusion, although stabilization rather than improvement was more frequently the outcome in our case series.

Russell pointed out that the Greater Manchester Challenge had also brought significant investment to schools in the region, "but the legacy of the £50m campaign appears to be one of decline rather than improvement".

I'm certain that Sen. Harkin and his staff have not made a study of schools and students nationwide to determine that there nowhere exist schools for which maintenance of quality, rather than improvement, should be our expectation.