The phrase "rather than regarding" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to emphasize a preference for one course of action or opinion over another. For example, "I choose to explore the new ideas, rather than regarding them skeptically."
Rather than regarding the march of the robots as an existential threat, they demand the automation of the entire economy.
Rather than regarding us as a problem, perhaps it's time policy makers viewed Muslim women as part of the solution.
The aim is for the governing body to be reactive rather than regarding everything as set in stone.
Our representatives should start taking the long view, rather than regarding rail travel in the country's interior as something only for rail aficionados.
My position as an outsider is something that I was always aware of but that I tended to embrace rather than regarding as a liability.
Rather than regarding the Beatles as a proper source of local pride, he associates them with a decline in popular culture.
Australia should, consequently, take the hint that it was on its own and develop an independent policy rather than regard the US alliance with religious reverence.
What has our culture come to, if bodies are considered off limits, private, and not even worthy of notice, rather than regarded as the property of the global digital sphere, people everywhere, and people not yet born, in perpetuity?
But rather than regard these works as childish entertainment, all whimsy and escapism, Newton passionately argues that these stories offered their authors and readers, "a way to expose social tensions and psychological conflicts and to devise potential solutions".
Italian Renaissance painting and sculpture reveals the rediscovery of the art of antiquity, when the naked flesh of men and women were worshipped and enjoyed rather than regarded as sinful.
She would like people to see the late work as just that - late work - and to relish it for its own sake, the way we might the distinctive late bloom of any other artist, rather than regard it as a symptom of the dark clouds overhead.
