Sentence examples for received rather than from inspiring English sources

Above all she recognizes that much in life is received rather than taken, and while she does not encourage passivity, she does encourage acceptance.

This, the novel's biggest weakness, is largely a failing of Mangan's prose, which tends to be general rather than specific, lofty rather than grounded, received rather than observed.

A Treasury spokesman insisted that a distributional analysis was still published but simply looked at the "share of spending received" rather than the change in cash terms.

The hyperbolic position lines for any pair of transmitters are determined by the phase difference between the signals received, rather than the difference in arrival times of pulses.

Steel wrote in an email to Carmody: "I have told [registry staff member Di Antonsen] that you will be nominating precisely who will do this work if and when an application to the CDR is received rather than Justice Boddice.

If visual sensations were primarily received rather than constructed by the brain, you'd expect that most of the fibres going to the brain's primary visual cortex would come from the retina.

And many party officials seem to be concentrating on what ministries they will receive rather than on questions of ideology.

This was the beginning of a new journey for me with the NHS – one of receiving rather than serving.

The sensory data that the chip receives, rather than marching along single file, fan out through its synaptic networks.

But this time art and artists were no longer leading the way for technology and science but were almost exclusively on the receiving rather than the giving end.

The explanation, the researchers said, appears to be that people are betting at judging force they receive rather than force they put out.