Sentence examples for rather to demonstrate from inspiring English sources

The diner has a purpose: to support nearby family farms, or rather to demonstrate the conviction that -- economically, historically, naturally, logically -- food is supposed to be local, and that it can be again.

"We provide these examples not as part of an "everyone does it" defense, but rather to demonstrate that these activities have never been regarded as creating an improper benefit to a member," Mr. Rangel's lawyers wrote.

The point of self-employed advocates, their raison d'etre, is to avoid the structure of employment, to avoid the steady trudge up the career path and the comfort of a seat at the partners' table but rather to demonstrate the courage of independence.

We do not intend that our study be used to justify the continued use of either oil or coal, but rather to demonstrate that substituting shale gas for these other fossil fuels may not have the desired effect of mitigating climate warming".

Renoir sets out in this picture both to pay homage to the beautiful, serenely efficient machinery of 18th-century comedy and to gum up the works a little -- or, rather, to demonstrate that in Europe in 1939, these once vital human constructions had become useless, inorganic, vestigial.

They're not doing it for malevolent reasons, rather to demonstrate a hidden way our phones and computers could one day be hacked without us realising.

Half a gallery is devoted to ceramics or, rather, to demonstrating the influence of Chinese stoneware on potters like Bernard Leach, when Japan was surely as crucial.

The truth of this is rather easy to demonstrate when λ = 1.

It is rather hard to demonstrate the validity of his proposition, but certainly the historical evidence to date is wholly consistent with what he was arguing".

But that wasn't the point – which was, rather than to demonstrate the traditional British values of compassion and fairness to those seeking refuge here, to denigrate them for crude political purposes.

Furthermore, it is rather easy to demonstrate that contemporary and ancient birds share some features as well as have different attributes.