Sentence examples for rather than means from inspiring English sources

"Rather than" means "instead of" or "in place of".

The foreign-policy debate is no longer ideological, if ideology has to do with differing conceptions of ends, rather than means.

Greater emphasis on ends rather than means creates a stress that leads to a breakdown in the regulatory structure i.e., anomie.

But too often in interior design projects, these processes are treated as ends rather than means, with results that are usually more earnest than elegant.

The commissioners do not see their investments as integral to the church's mission, but as additional – a dualism which suggests both bad theology and seeking to justify investment decisions by ends rather than means.

Instead of the current system, he would like to see an "ends rather than means" approach, where legal services ombudsman complaints data is used to identify poorly performing barristers, who would then be required to undergo more training.

Actually, though, their feel is playful rather than mean-spirited, their comedy worthy of Koons himself.

Built Games' argument that the game was a fun spoof rather than mean-spirited appears to have won out.

She was a bit of a tearaway in a small English village tearaway sort of way; mischievous rather than mean.

It's probably a good sign for our fractured society, then, that the more popular videos tended to be essentially gentle, interested in being funny rather than mean.

Third, jobs are ranked by median rather than mean earnings.