Sentence examples for represent rather than from inspiring English sources

He remained a threat to the security of our national psyche, condemned to be judged by what he was thought to represent rather than what he actually is.

In many other states, citizens feel that they have a say in their government and believe that those they elect actually represent, rather than bully, them.

In choosing a potential major or assessing your college achievement, I would instead focus on what strong grades tend to represent rather than on the grades themselves.

Perhaps the most-abiding concept from the bureaucratic politics model, and the shorthand many have used to define it, is that actors will pursue policies that benefit the organizations they represent rather than national or collective interests.

But keep in mind that agents typically specialize in the Medicare plans they represent, rather than all the plans in your market.

In a perfect world, candidates would spend time with the people they hope to represent, rather than calling donors who don't even live in their district.

Even the performance style made it clear that actors were representing, rather than identifying with, particular characters.

They also decided that, when buying portraits, they would "look to the celebrity of the person represented rather than to the merit of the artist".

"Brussels should be a place where the different identities of European peoples are represented, rather than imposing one single European identity which may not exist," he said.

Acquisition of greater power by the population segment that the movement purportedly represents, rather than the implementation of the values of the movement, then becomes a goal.

The lengthy descriptions of cooking that we find in modern literature are a way of artfully representing, rather than actually reproducing, our mental life — a modelled illusion, rather than a snapshot of the thing.