Sentence examples for rather than presence from inspiring English sources

On the whole, however, what is conveyed is an impression of absence rather than presence.

The advice to Corbyn to stay aloof from Wales was probably sound – but success due to a leader's absence rather than presence is desperate.

And political speech can take the form of absence rather than presence: earlier today, Stevie Wonder announced a performance boycott of Florida and any other state with a "stand your ground" law.

The athlete biological passport system has been the most crucial development in anti-doping in recent years, with blood test results analysed over a period of time for the effects rather than presence of drugs.

Moreover, considering that activation rather than presence of autoreactive T cells is the hallmark of autoimmune disease, the creation of an environment resulting in failure of tolerance and regulatory mechanisms, rather than emergence of novel microbial antigenic determinants, may well be at the root of autoimmunity.

Beyond the feats of prestidigitation and portability that Redrocks biometric scanning technology allows, the company also differentiates itself by showing intent rather than presence, according to Konsevich.

Ms. Vendler acutely observes that the deaths of Mr. Heaney's mother in 1984 and his father in 1986 "caused a tear in the fabric of Heaney's verse," and the poems in "The Haw Lantern" (1987) tend to focus on absences, rather than presences, on virtual, metaphorical and metaphysical questions rather than material realities.

Thus, rather than presence-absence recording of compounds, the quantity of the odour compounds matters to the response of C. vestalis, a finding similar to what is recently shown for honeybees [25].

This suggests that there are particular effects on response caused by an interviewer's presence, rather than the presence of other household members.

Maxent was used instead of GARP because Maxent provides relative probabilities of presence rather than only presence-absence output and because it has, in some recent studies, been shown to outperform GARP with respect to its predictive success [11], [17].

Similar results were obtained when we assessed the effect of the presence of cattle, rather than the presence of other domestic livestock in general.