Sentence examples for rather than recent from inspiring English sources

The spike in attacks is being viewed through the prism of ancient unresolved grievances, rather than recent reprisals.

Eduardo Pacheco Jordão, a professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, is less inclined to blame the savelha, though he agrees the problem is historic and organic rather than recent and sewage-related.

He said: "Rather than recent daft judgments by the European court practically pretending that obesity is inevitable, in England in 2015 we're going to start proving that it isn't.

Dr Manning said the varied nature of the IB rather than recent concerns over the standard of A-levels was the reason why he had been thinking of changing "for many years".

Update: Larry Summers directs me to a 1988 paper he wrote with Robert Barsky (pdf) with a similar theme, although applied to the gold standard era rather than recent events.

The OBR's forecasts are based on net migration of 900,000 over the duration of the parliament, which is based on a long-run average forecast by the Office for National Statistics rather than recent experience, which shows net migration hitting 330,000 in the past year.

This paper provides a non-exhaustive, rather earlier than recent, overview of contributions in the field of Radio Frequency Identification technology (RFID), and its use in several sectors.

Every club's results in European competition over the past five years are counted equally,  with no weighting to favour the most recent seasons - so the seeding reflects long-term consistency, rather than rewarding recent excellence.

Recent infection, rather than late reactivation, likely drives the majority of tuberculosis in this setting.

Her tastes in bedding lean toward the austere and monastic rather than the recent fad for piles of pillows and throws.

Marianne Flatley, a spokeswoman for DDB New York, attributed the staff reductions to "a general softening of the economy" rather than the recent loss of several accounts, including Michelin.