Sentence examples for rather than opposite from inspiring English sources

On the subject of comets: should not æther drag cause their tails to point along their trajectories, rather than opposite the sun?

The paradox of development vs. protection and conservation of the coasts highlights the need to determine if tourism and conservation can be compatible rather than opposite activities.

It coincided with other attempts to modernize concertgoing, like the reseating of orchestras with first and second violins juxtaposed rather than opposite each other, the replacement of gut strings with steel and the gradual elimination of applause between movements of symphonies and concertos.

The highest response rate to P+K was recorded when P and K sources were both adjacent to P+K source, rather than opposite to the control source.

Although the obtained results mainly confirmed our theoretical presumptions, they also made possible the deduction that in the case of these four characteristics, the impact of the ions is additive rather than opposite (PC1 and PC2 were positively correlated with the descriptors).

On the retina, the image motion was identical to that produced by stationary bars, except that the direction was the same as, rather than opposite to, the pursuit direction (Figure 4 E).

"With the independence referendum the broadness of that question allowed young people to have conversations about issues: with an election it's a spectrum rather than polar opposites.

Quick example: John Barton's idea in Richard II, that Richard and Bolingbroke are two sides of the same coin rather than polar opposites, was so startling that I've never quite been able to forget it.

But the two [views] are complementary, in my view, rather than polar opposites — at least in terms of the findings that the Nobel committee has posed.

In short, and as Drucker put it, "change and continuity are poles rather than opposites". Continuity is the fertile soil in which change takes root.

And in his best work for the theatre – which for me includes Jumpers, The Real Thing, Arcadia and Rock 'n' Roll – he has glamorised thought and shown that the intellect and emotion are bedfellows rather than opposites.