Sentence examples for rather than necessary from inspiring English sources

But while the journey fulfills the formula of the novel, it feels perfunctory rather than necessary, lacking the conviction and immediacy of that struggle in the swimming pool.

It is sometimes accepted because the benefits of data sharing are presented as nice-to-haves, such as new scientific discoveries, rather than necessary requirements for a fair and democratic society.

"Every pound we spend on paying off the debt is a pound we give to others, such as overseas investment funds, rather than necessary public services like schools and hospitals, or being able to reduce taxation further".

This is that there is a huge gap in military power between America and everyone else, that the country has opportunities denied to anyone else and that traditional alliances are therefore useful rather than necessary.

Hill called it a "form of intimidation" rather than necessary police work: "The more they do it, they get promoted, attaboy, you know, you can go to the tactical team, you can go to narcotics.

But democracy's association with the nation-state is contingent rather than necessary.

One possibility is that the doctrine should be interpreted as addressing certain necessary conditions, rather than all necessary conditions, or all necessary and sufficient conditions.

It provides a good reference to the field but its emphasis in the book is rather greater than necessary; nowadays radiation is used rather less frequently for the treatment of ovarian cancer.

This has been taken as evidence for the claim that the hippocampus is necessary for representing space rather than being necessary for working memory (O'Keefe and Nadel, 1978).

Documentation was a huge success this year– a party rather than a necessary evil.

My effete, urban sensibilities would consider that child abuse, rather than a necessary rite of passage.