Sentence examples for rather to obtain from inspiring English sources

And in his dealings with both Congress and other nations before the invasion of Iraq, Mr. Brownstein goes on, Mr. Bush "sought not to construct a consensus for a common direction on Iraq, but rather to obtain acquiescence for the undeviating direction he had charted in his own mind".

This is not done to generalize or predict the Thai child's frame of mind, but rather to obtain a basic understanding of the world they inhabit.

However, it was not applied to perform SV filtering, but rather to obtain continuous tunable filters from a (reduced) set of discrete filters.

We remind here that we do not try to infer the real contacts but rather to obtain a down-sampled version of the co-presence network that is statistically similar to the real contact data.

The goal is rather to obtain a slow, gradual correction of PNa levels since the risk for hyponatremic encephalopathy is limited and outweighed by the likelihood of OD [229].

The purpose of a mcBPPS analysis thus is not to prove that these residues are the most important, but rather to obtain statistical clues regarding their biochemical roles.

Most beginner's Hot Yoga Sequences are rather fast paced and crowded, it can be rather hard to obtain specific attention and retain the detailed instructions in such conditions.

After all, it appears rather easy to obtain shareholder approval.

(It's out of print, which is a disgrace, and rather hard to obtain but try an inter-library loan).

Notwithstanding such gains, some opposition members refused to take their seats in Parliament but rather wanted to obtain power through unconstitutional means by using unemployed youth for violence.

Third, the energy boom probably won't stop oil speculation — the purchase of oil futures to make a quick buck rather than to obtain oil.