Sentence examples for rules but rather from inspiring English sources

The problem this time isn't a possible violation of Federal Aviation Administration rules, but rather the birds themselves.

A big part of the "rule changes" we're talking about is not actually changes to the rules, but rather, changes to enforcement of existing rules.

Mountain climbing is not a competitive endeavor, so participants are not bound by rules, but rather by internal expectations, team cohesion and good judgment.

Policymakers do not expect banks to raise more capital from shareholders or bondholders to meet the new rules but rather to reallocate existing capital.

This proposal was not quite "regulation" (in the sense of a set of new binding rules), but rather more like a position paper that set forth safeguards the regulators thought the banks should adopt.

It never declares that "there are no rules" but, rather, begins from the opposite premise: "What kind of fact are you looking up when you look up a word in the dictionary?

The most talked-about decision was not technically a new rule but rather a clarification of the existing "roughing the passer" regulation.

This new insight shows that sharp downturns are not exceptions to the historical rule, but rather extreme instances of what occurs all the time.

Lincoln opposed Stephen Douglas's proposed policy of "popular sovereignty" not because it was a form of majority rule, but rather because it was a merely local, and thus illusory, form of majority rule — as was the Confederacy.

The issue, though, is not with the rule, or the wording of the rule, but rather with the enforcement of it, with how often foot faults are called and when or whether they should be.

At the same time, this show of pragmatism should not be seen as a one-time exception to the rule, but rather carried over to other areas — the economy, to start with.