Sentence examples for rather to indicate from inspiring English sources

Although both Saccheri and Lambert aimed to establish the hypothesis of the right angle, their arguments seemed rather to indicate the unimpeachability of the alternatives.

This is not to suggest that there were not sound strategic reasons for the war policy there may well have been only, rather, to indicate that substantial military recruitment was not inconsistent with the absence of significant economic growth.

As indicated above, Malebranche offered Cartesian grounds for thinking that the purpose of our sensations is not to reveal the true nature of the material world, but rather to indicate what is helpful or harmful to our body.

In the eighteenth century, the terms 'cosmopolitanism' and 'world citizenship' were often used not as labels for determinate philosophical theories, but rather to indicate an attitude of open-mindedness and impartiality.

But the words of Livy, exodia conserta fabellis, seem rather to indicate interludes, which, however, must not be understood as if they had been played between the acts of the Atellaneae, which would suggest a false idea of the Atellanae themselves.

Conversely, the implants could be used to restrict movement, to act as a tag for prisoners either as a means to stop them leaving an establishment or rather to indicate when they try to enter somewhere off-limits.

Using this cautious language has an important place in scientific writing, but using two, three, or even four synonyms is unnecessary and depletes the strength of our point: "may be possible" (better: it is possible), "seems to suggest" (better: suggests), "rather likely to indicate" (better: indicates), "may be seen as rather likely" (better: is likely).

A travaux préparatoires is an omnibus expression which is used rather loosely to indicate all the documents, such as memoranda, minutes of conferences, and drafts of the treaty under negotiation, for the purpose of interpreting the treaty.

It is by no means intended to suggest that there should be a linear relationship between load applications and stage design strength ratio, but would rather like to indicate that the investigated design methods do not seem to provide adequate strength to meet the progressive increase in load applications that takes place at advanced service times.

The other two observed cases of transgenerational effects rather seemed to indicate experimental variation in the baseline of SHR, since lower and higher doses of the same treatments had no effect.

It is, rather, a gesture to indicate that he has dishonoured you.