Sentence examples for rather than proof from inspiring English sources

Fewer women went to beer halls to meet men, and having a venereal disease became a badge of shame rather than proof of masculinity.

The Justice Department need only establish its claims by the more favorable preponderance of the evidence standard, rather than proof beyond a reasonable doubt required in criminal cases.

Most charities must flog for funding to stay afloat, which creates a market for proof of suffering rather than proof of strength.

But lawyers for Deutsche Bank supplied documents showing only an intent to convey the rights in the mortgages rather than proof of ownership as of the foreclosure date.

It seemed to show that the Torricelli note was actually part of Stevens's cover-up rather than proof of his innocence.

Time to trade Labours lost ReprintsIn the American system, a government prosecutor might choose a civil over a criminal charge because it carries a lower burden of proof a preponderance of evidence rather than proof beyond reasonable doubt.

Basic ideas are presented semantically rather than proof-theoretically, though both axiom systems and tableau systems exist.

Within a natural-deduction framework, Tranchini (2012b see Other Internet Resources) has proposed to consider derivations of absurdity as "arguments" rather than "proofs", understanding arguments as senses of derivations and proofs as their denotations, so that a non-normalizable derivation of absurdity is meaningful, but lacks a denotation.

He sought general existence proofs, rather than "constructive proofs" that actually produce the objects.

Moreover, the justices also chose to interpret Aldo's failure to detect any of the drugs he was trained to find during the two sniff searches around Harris' car as proof of Aldo's superior sniffing skills rather than glaring proof that drug-sniffing dogs do make mistakes.

The precautionary principle states that evidence of harm, rather than definitive proof of harm, should prompt policy action, and that the burden of proof should lie with manufacturers to demonstrate that chemicals are safe, rather than with the public to show that they cause harm (Kriebel et al. 2001).