Sentence examples for rather than operations from inspiring English sources

Nursing home patients may be frail or have other diseases, leading some doctors to advise hormone therapy rather than operations.

Uterus transplants, meanwhile, are part of a growing demand for surgical procedures that improve the quality of a patient's life, rather than operations to keep them alive.

Vehicle requisition is often part of a project budget or a regional service plan, but the emphasis is on procurement rather than operations.

About $25 million, or a penny a share, came from investment income rather than operations, but after discounting that boost, Compaq still beat the average of analysts' projections by a penny a share.

Biotech stock cash is deceiving because it often reflects contributions made by partners rather than operations.

He said it was likely to be an "issue" of the projects section of his business, rather than operations.

A spokeswoman would not confirm that the cases related to Operation Elveden – the investigation into alleged bribes by journalists – but it is understood they relate to this inquiry rather than Operation Weeting, which is looking into phone hacking.

"Resources are skewed toward capital rather than operation," said Mr. Brownstein, who is now director of policy and research at Working Partnerships U.S.A., a nonprofit public policy and research institute.

The conventional long-term reliability evaluation techniques have been well developed, which have been more focused on planning and expansion rather than operation of power systems.

Because a poor outcome was observed, some study recommends that percutaneous gall bladder aspiration [8, 9] and endoscopic gallbladder stent placement [2, 10] rather than operation may be a potential treatment or temporizing measure for symptomatic gallbladder disease in patients with liver cirrhosis awaiting liver transplantation (LT) [9, 11].

The PRFSS indicators are designed to measure operations rather than performance.