Sentence examples for rather than represent from inspiring English sources

The buildings perform rather than represent the ideas they embody.

European commissioners are meant to act in the EU's interest rather than represent their countries.

And rather than represent cut-and-dried things, I feel like my gift is to represent that confusion".

The hope in Moscow is that last week's strike was a one-off event, the emotional response of an impulsive President, meant to telegraph strength rather than represent a wholesale and systematic new policy approach.

Furthermore, jirga representatives are often notables and local power-holders who may see it fit to impose their own will on the public, rather than represent the public's desires.

But rather than represent a sub-group of a progressive society intent on dragging its feet, the street children of Bogotá are a cruelly inevitable result of the political instability that has dominated the country for decades and has been founded on the massive disparity between the rich and poor.

These genes, rather than representing a product in themselves, are guides to future product discovery.

It's spending most of its time embarrassing students rather than representing them".

And they have always seemed minor adjuncts to their careers, rather than representing their primary means of expression.

Like Oliver Stone's "Nixon," Mr. von Trier's new film, rather than representing historical or social commentary, is about his inner Dogville.

Rather than representing a descent to boorish barbarity, could it be that our shameless, moob-jiggling males point the way back to Eden itself?