Sentence examples for transformation rather than from inspiring English sources

Although Chairman Kim Jong Il and his Communist regime are part of President Bush's axis of evil, Washington has opted to pursue regime transformation rather than regime change.

For him, however, the refusal marked a spiritual transformation rather than a desolating break: if one set of beliefs was fading, there were others to take its place.

He is a throwback to a long-ago era, when the skill of a performer was judged by transformation rather than by fidelity.

The art is one of transformation rather than origination, made from superb performances by Jamaican studio players, who maintain a steady groove with the precision of a metronome and the creativity and feel of a jazz musician.

With the voters' help, the continuing work of Mr. Spota, and the election of a true reformer as town supervisor, Brookhaven may yet be on the brink of transformation, rather than just another false dawn.

This results from the crystallographic constraints associated with the shear transformation rather than a low energy interface configuration.

Gamma rays are energetically identical to X rays; however, they are emitted as a result of nuclear transformations rather than electron orbital transitions.

On this view, until the high scholasticism of the 13th and 14th centuries, philosophy was essentially a spiritual and personal project of self-discipline and self-transformation, rather than an abstract and school-based problem-solving set of techniques (Hadot 1995, 269 70).

These results would confirm that even an interested public that accepts the Darwinian theory is, to some degrees, inclined to perceive evolution through the reading of "individual transformations" rather than variation at population level (Mayr [2001]).

In a solution-based crystallizer the transformation between the metastable polymorph and the stable polymorph will usually occur via a solution mediated transformation (SMT) rather than a solid state transformation.

Under boundary displacement control, solutions demonstrate preferred transformation at shear-band intersections, restricted growth beyond intersections, preferred transformation during rather than after intersection process, and sequential rather than simultaneous operation of multiple intersections of identical potency.