Sentence examples for rather than purposeful from inspiring English sources

The comptroller's office said that the excess charges resulted from confusion and poor management rather than purposeful overcharging.

But on Wednesday "The Envelope" was performed with an air of broad comedy rather than purposeful intrigue, and the effect was clumsier than it need be.

Not only that, Arsenal failed to pick up three points as well as any kind of momentum, continuing the impression that this is going to be a season characterised by continual stumbles rather than purposeful strides.

The complaint is often motivated by the concern that various forms of welfarism treat people as mere containers for well-being, rather than purposeful beings, responsible for their actions and creative in their environments.

However, such politicized understandings do not reflect the complexity of reasons to migrate, which are often a combination between security, economic, political and social reasons (King, 2012; Koser & Black, 1999; Ottonelli & Torresi, 2013) and 'assume away the agency of migrants' by seeing them as victims rather than purposeful actors (Bakewell, 2008).

The fight becomes personal rather than purposeful.

Human history in Julius Caesar seems to follow a pattern of rise and fall, in a way that is cyclical rather than divinely purposeful.

This is an argument I've made myself: Namely, that with the collapse of grand ideological alternatives to liberal democracy one would expect terrorism to become mostly the province of madmen and nihilists and eccentric loners, rather than more purposeful movements and organizations.

But the post only suggests highly indirect ways of addressing mindless consumption, rather than any purposeful interventions.].

It is just that for most people, manipulative actions tend to be one-off or only occasional instances rather than a purposeful map for daily living and interaction with others.

As a result of this static and melancholy view of the human condition, the Ajivikas practiced austerities rather than pursue any purposeful goal.