Sentence examples for rather than ultimate from inspiring English sources
The design of concrete members reinforced with fiber-reinforced-polymer (FRP) bars is typically governed by serviceability state rather than ultimate state.
Serviceability limit states (related to deformation) rather than ultimate limit states (related to collapse) are often the reason for the need to assess existing timber structures.
The point of our study was to investigate proximate factors for chimpanzees' targeted helping rather than ultimate factors such as inclusive fitness.
FMCA aims to detect the inherent Tm difference between the wild-type and the mutant, thus measurable Tm resolution rather than a yes-or-no result (as in real-time PCR detection) and appropriate rather than ultimate specificity are pursued for FMCA probe.
Secondly, purely ecological mechanisms appear to be contributors rather than ultimate explanations of global diversity patterns (Rohde 1992; Currie et al. 2004).
(Mipham 1977: 81f) The identity of ultimate truth at issue here, according to Mipham, is that of absolute ultimate (rnam grangs min pa'i don dam ste), rather than provisional ultimate.
Even today, although most of his time is spent working with dealers rather than the ultimate buyers, the salesman remains.
The punishment is unreasonable: The further teams go in the tournament, the more games they play — and the more likely they are to receive yellow cards, which, notionally, are a caution rather than the ultimate sanction of dismissal.
Asked recently about whether Britain's overseas territories should publish registers of beneficial owners of their companies, foreign office minister James Duddridge replied that these were a "direction, rather than an ultimate destination".
British Olympic Association chairman Lord Moynihan was keen for Sir Steve Redgrave, winner of five Olympic gold medals for rowing, to light the cauldron, but Hunt's comments suggest he will be part of the final countdown rather than the ultimate bearer of the flame.
We are focused on those steps now rather than the ultimate goal".
