Sentence examples for rather than left from inspiring English sources

One joke suggests that due to a misunderstanding over how Arabic is read - right to left rather than left to right - those martyrs expecting 72 virgins in Heaven have misread the Koran, which actually promises one 27-year-old virgin.

However, there is also neuroimaging evidence suggesting that sublexical-phonological spelling processes primarily rely on left superior temporal and inferior frontal regions rather than left vOT [Beeson and Rapcsak, 2003 and Omura et al., 2004].

Specifically, the demonstration that inter-subject variability in language lateralization is primarily driven by right rather than left hemisphere activation indicates that right lateralization does not imply that the left hemisphere has a redundant role in language function.

"His focus was on a unifying national narrative rather than left, right or center".

As human beings, we hunger for something to be closed rather than left eternally open.

As the soldiers left, Tutsis begged to be shot rather than left to the militia's machetes.

Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.

Bus services will need to be guaranteed rather than left to commercial discretion or over-burdened council budgets.

But surely we're better being able to watch if we feel we must, rather than left with disinfected despair?

Update 7/6: This article has been updated to reflect Common Cause's self-identification as nonpartisan, rather than left-leaning.

Again and again, he swept low diagonals out to Neymar; it was all rather reminiscent of Gerson's angled balls out to Jaizinho during the 1970 World Cup (although right-to-left rather than left-to-right).