Sentence examples for rather than predict from inspiring English sources

But for forensic meteorologists, who use the science of weather to testify in court about what has already happened, rather than predict what will occur, business could soon see an uptick.

By so doing, we will be able to anticipate, rather than predict, the positive and desirable impact of language assessment on policies and practices of language teaching and learning, achieving the goal of "impact by design" (Salamoura et al. 2014; Saville 2009, 2012).

"What this text shows us is that in times of crisis, the ancient Maya used their calendar to promote continuity and stability rather than predict apocalypse," Canuto said.

It is best to recognize today's "unusual uncertain outlook" (using Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's characterization) rather than predict confidently (and foolishly) on the basis of partial information and incomplete analysis.

Yet we specifically focus on the marginal effects due to ocean acidification, because our purpose is to provide a theoretically well-grounded working hypothesis which can be tested against empirical hypotheses rather than predict the future.

Our intention is to generate a distribution of geographic areas that are likely to be climatically suitable for A. transcaspicus in a typical contemporary environment, rather than predict on a fine-scale the occurrence in a given community or landscape.

We investigate an approach that uses only self-histories rather than the histories of others for predictions, i.e., rather than predicting the behaviour of a person based on what others typically do as in other work, we predict based only on what the person him/her-self did.

These results can be incorporated into predictive models, allowing experimental rather than predicted values to be used for these naturally occurring bulges.

Cao ([2010]) also found that use of observed rather than predicted stand attributes for disaggregation led to improved predictions for tree survival and diameter growth, i.e. the quality of the tree-level predictions in disaggregation depended on the reliability of the stand predictions.

Such patient-oriented approaches may require direct testing of the drug sensitivity of a patient's cancer cells to various available anticancer therapeutics rather than predicting drug sensitivity based on the presence or absence of predictive biomarkers.

Rather than predicting that he would play well this week, he said simply, "We'll see".