Sentence examples for rather than occasions from inspiring English sources

The Regimental song and ornamented expressions of love were innocent expressions of feeling rather than occasions for display.

Some make use of their perceived strangeness by performing at funerals, which in Vietnam are celebrations of life rather than occasions to mourn death.

There is a considerable problem of determining which of these myriad causes constitutes the conditions of correctness, rather than occasions of mistaken usage.

These special days will become days you will have to get through, rather than occasions you can continue to celebrate and enjoy.

There was a six cracked over long on from the first ball he faced from spinner Rangana Herath, some easy on the eye drives and a poise at the crease of a man playing delivery rather than occasion.

Furthermore the findings show that any differences in the three specific tutor behaviors are largely accounted for by differences between tutors rather than measurement occasions or even tutors-occasion interactions.

In lab experiments Dr. Williams has induced an overgeneral style in subjects by coaching them to recall types of events ("when I drive to work") rather than specific occasions ("when I drove to work last Saturday").

Adam Werritty's visits to MOD Main Building 5. Further work on the logs showing people who have entered the MOD Main Building suggests that Adam Werritty was present on 22 rather than 14 occasions.

"We should really see these meetings as opportunities for the leaders to get more comfortable with one another, to discuss bilateral issues in meetings on the sidelines, and to bless technical agreements that have been reached in the interim," he said, "rather than as occasions which will alter macroeconomic policy making in the world".

It is too bad that they decided to make this an occasion to protest rather than an occasion to pray for the soul of the deceased".

Like many Americans, she planned her funeral, and insisted it be a "celebration" rather than an occasion for mourning.