Sentence examples for rather than intrinsically from inspiring English sources

From this standpoint, cruelty towards non-human animals would be instrumentally, rather than intrinsically, wrong.

Alternately, Ehring suggests that we grant this objection, but preserve trope simplicity by switching to a non-Williamsonian conception of tropes, according to which a trope's nature is determined by its memberships in various natural classes of tropes rather than intrinsically, thereby sidestepping one of the assumptions operative in the objection (2011).

Theta waves recorded in the frontal cortex could be volume-conducted from the olfactory bulb rather than intrinsically generated in the frontal region.

Predicated on the on the notion that interoceptive information has greater salience when processing ambiguous (rather than intrinsically arousing) stimuli, we hypothesised that this would enable us to test for a comparator function of insula cortex in responding to mismatches in cognitive and interoceptive representations of physiological state, even at conditions of low bodily arousal.

These distinct phenotypes could represent differing expression patterns rather than intrinsically different activities, however, as insertion of Smad3 into the Smad2 locus is sufficient to rescue lethality in Smad2 null mice [ 10].

Yet, strangely, having pointed out all the parallels, Feifer persists in thinking of the American venture as a "historic opportunity" undermined by the second front, in Iraq, rather than as intrinsically hopeless.

But while Sky Ladder was constructed and ignited without Chinese government approval, it was not intended as a political statement – avoiding official involvement was a matter of practicality rather than anything intrinsically political in the work itself.

Like Big Pharma, this game attempts to show that rather than being intrinsically "bad", the people working within institutions are subject to pressures and demands that influence their behaviour.

Thus, excess LMO2 rather than an intrinsically higher binding affinity would lead to sequestration of Ldb1.

We, therefore, believe that the injury observed in our model was due to SPA rather than an intrinsically injurious ventilation strategy per se.

Stochastic movements might therefore, like a form of Brownian motion, be an emergent property of the epithelium rather than an intrinsically stochastic process generated within each cell.