Sentence examples for rather than sensitive from inspiring English sources

He said there was a presumption that hydrocarbons existed in large parts of the country and that there must be better sites for exploiting shale gas, rather than sensitive areas such as the countryside around Fernhurst.

A similar situation was also observed in rice drought tolerant cultivars under drought stress, where a higher number of members of gene families related to PSI and PSII were down-regulated in tolerant rather than sensitive cultivars [52].

It has been proposed that the 'early is better' notion, in terms of speech and language achievements, may reflect environmental and cognitive factors such as the amount and duration of practice [23], [35], the level of education, quantity and quality of input [35] [37] and interference [38] [40] rather than sensitive period constraints.

Because the included codes were selected to be specific rather than sensitive, the numbers of patients identified cannot be used to establish incidence rates.

SHB also trained INFOTAB's information services staff regarding information to be stored in the computer (publicly available information rather than "sensitive" internal documents) and how to write abstracts (summaries containing "no judgmental materials") [ 138].

3 4 5 6 7 Antibiotic use increases an individual's risk of carrying and being infected by resistant organisms rather than sensitive organisms, with the greatest effect occurring immediately after treatment but persisting for up to 12 months.

Surprisingly, melC+ strains were more sensitive rather than less sensitive to phenolics than melC− strains.

Microarray data of the steroidogenesis network suggested that mildly sensitive parameters, rather than highly sensitive ones, were modulated during EDC stress response.

This is because a high threshold means that larger areas are considered cell edge, although parts of these areas are bandwidth-sensitive rather than interference-sensitive.

We molecularly characterized the strains by using mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit variable number tandem repeat (MIRU-VNTR) typing (12 ); results showed that the drug-sensitive and drug-resistant M. tuberculosis strains were 2 distinct strains (Table) rather than 1 sensitive strain that had become resistant through mutagenesis.

Either way, McKinney was closer to the tough Mandy Rice-Davies rather than the sensitive Christine Keeler.