Sentence examples for rather than longstanding from inspiring English sources

There is also some evidence that older people who are underweight have a higher risk of dementia than those with normal weight [9], [24], but the association between low BMI and increased dementia risk seems to be due to acute loss rather than longstanding low body mass [9], [24].

We argue that AIAI is fundamentally distinct from other mechanisms leading to prior adaptation primarily because the evolution is strictly contemporary rather than longstanding, and because the AIAI scenario emphasizes the central role of humans in imposing selective pressures within the native range and in enhancing dispersal via global trade.

Second, anthropogenic change fundamentally alters the landscape nearly instantaneously, such that the evolutionary response that enhances subsequent invasion is strictly concurrent with the anthropogenic change rather than a longstanding response occurring over historic and contemporary time scales.

And in 2004, Children's Village, a private nonprofit agency that contracts with the city and houses 280 children in cottages on a 150-acre campus in Westchester County, decided to redouble its efforts to find homes for teenage residents rather than maintain its longstanding practice of keeping them until they turn 21.

Throughout the trial and subsequent appeals, he contended that there was no connection, no quid pro quo, between the donations and the contracts — that, in fact, the contractors (also convicted) were acting out of friendship rather than corrupt intent, as longstanding business associates who had become true intimates.

Marshall shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for proving that stomach ulcers are caused by the bacterium Helicobacter pylori rather than by stress, a longstanding and erroneous connection that formed the basis both of thinking on the subject and of the lucrative standard treatment.

Dietary habits in these cohorts are likely longstanding rather than short-lived, as in a clinical trial paradigm.

These earlier data suggested that inflammation in the ligamentous SIJ compartment may be indicative of longstanding rather than early disease.

With Britain performing in the European rather than the American league, the longstanding link with the dollar has been called into question.

Mr. Perry's decent record is mostly a product of structural differences and longstanding policies rather than anything he has enacted.

The goal is to emulate longstanding universities, rather than traditional companies.