Sentence examples for surely rather than from inspiring English sources

Surely, rather than the Champs league, it would be the Copa Libertadores that the USA teams would join?

Surely, rather than this unseemlylobbying for elderly rights, our proper role is to set an example of modesty, by taking our place in the queue for welfare behind the more deserving casualties of the selfie culture that we have created.

But while she identifies the relationships that appear to be emerging as modelled on sex work – the robot as passive, bought, female; the man as emotion-free and sex-starved – surely rather than calling for a ban on them, to forlornly try stalling technology, the pressure should be to change the narrative.

Old hands doubt whether the new microfoundations are quite as secure as they seem the macroeconomy is surely rather more than the sum of its parts but no self-respecting theorist can now be seen in public without them.Stabilising the macroeconomy is only one of the responsibilities of governments in a market economy.

That sense of history relived suffused the idiosyncratic, Tolkien-esque opening of the London Games Friday with a vast and sometimes edgy panoply of British history from bucolic feudalism to a modernity defined by rap music and social networking (surely rather less than might be claimed by a land that likes to think of itself as punching above its weight in so many other ways).

A passage like the following, from a chapter entitled "On terrorism," sounds like a bull with a bullhorn, and is very different in tone from the more feline Coetzee, who would surely rather have his claws pulled than commit to print the phrase "It's déjà vu all over again": Well, what do we see today, in 2005?

A system of representative government would surely legitimise rather than dismiss such a position.

These are great examples, but they are surely exceptions rather than the norm.

Surely I, rather than savour the good things in life, should be copying the colleague who photographs the back of his head with his cameraphone to check he has shaved his head evenly.

The "Star Wars" films, like Tolkien's books, are surely epic rather than fairy, with a neat morality and the overriding lesson that blood (Luke Skywalker's or Aragorn's) will always tell. C. S. Lewis's Narnia tales uneasily mix an optimistic Christian morality with a darker and more intuitive pagan one.

Cynics snipe that crime fell in DC as it fell everywhere, for demographic reasons; that it was the housing boom that balanced the budget; and that it is no great achievement to make Washington solvent when the city is home to the greatest cash-spouting entity on earth.This is surely unfair: rather than surfing these benign trends, Mr Williams could have bucked them (as his predecessors did).