Sentence examples for rather than possibility from inspiring English sources

Light and thin, it offers flexibility rather than possibility.

It's impossible to combine work and motherhood – I have three children, aged 9, 13 and 16 – but poetry starts from impossibility rather than possibility.

She might eruditely discuss theories about fiction – "You're thinking of Henry Fielding's argument that fiction should adhere to a standard of probability, rather than possibility" – but her state of mind is increasingly called into question.

However, this non systematic approach is fraught with dangers, especially in the realm of new technologies where the individual developing the new technology in the laboratory is more concerned about the potential profits to be derived from the technology rather than possibility of its misuse and negative impact on society.

But when he referred to Syria, Mr. Obama spoke of constraints rather than possibilities.

When the songs did arrive, Vernon could recognise them immediately as Bon Iver material rather than possibilities for any of his other projects.

One available option is to revise the relevant conception of determinism by taking it as a thesis about qualitatively discernible possibilities rather than possibilities in general.

But artists found -- quickly in some cases, over decades in others -- that pure abstraction was a trap, restricting rather than opening up further possibilities for painting.

Then artists found, quickly in some cases, over decades in others, that pure abstraction was a trap, restricting rather than opening up further possibilities for painting.

Planning policy and procurement practice are to be addressed so that these open up, rather than limit, possibility.

So it appears it's physical intimacy between two people that sets off the censors, rather than the possibility that those people are the same gender.